The hostility of liberals to socialist China (and North Korea) is now echoed by many progressives and by some self-styled Leftists. The Monthly Review piece [Hart/Landsberg and Burkett's, 'China and Socialism, '] is an unfortunate example of a radical journal embracing much of the Bush hostility to China from a, "Left, ' perspective that indirectly helps cement the growing liberal-conservative consensus for war with the PRC..."
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Astounding.
Anyone who actually read the MR issue devoted to China's current path would know (if he got past the bright cover with its green text) there was zero "embracing [of] much of the Bush hostility.." in evidence therein.
The focus was capitalist restoration. Specifically, the shock wave of problems that have hit a multitude of Chinese who've been cast to the winds as Beijing builds its megalopolis-of-factories version of tommorowland. How should the socialist oriented Left interpret this dramatic, apparently world changing development?
This was the key question.
To assert, as Mr. Ewing seems to do, that this careful analysis is even 100,000 light years within proximity of "the growing liberal-conservative consensus for war with the PRC..." is so very odd and off-target you wonder what the hell parallel universe edition of the magazine he read to reach this conclusion.
It surely wasn't the one I'm looking at on my desk right now .
.d.
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