[lbo-talk] Satanic mills redux

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 04:49:41 PST 2012


[WS:] Even if true, it is unlikely it will lead to greater labor militancy and organizing in China. If anything comes out of it, it more likely will result in a return to some form of traditionalism mixed with religion. Thomas and Znaniecki document such outcome in _The Polish Peasant in Europe and America_ . It is important to keep in mind three critical elements of this process - (i) the original traditionalism and collectivism of the social group (ii) undercutting of that traditionalism and collectivism by "modernization" (in whatever form) and (iii) reaction to unsuccessful adaptation to "modernization" that results in reverting to an idealized version of past traditionalism. Janine Wedel (ed.) describe a similar process in socialist Poland. I am pretty sure there are more anthropological accounts of this process. Shag?

But then, who knows? South Korea is the place of strong social movements, which illustrates the possibility of a different outcome, but it is a very different society than China.

Wojtek

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:
> A Chinese visiting scholar in the U.S., friend of a close friend of
> mine, just returned from a brief trip to China.  She told my friend
> that the impact of OWS on China is "tremendous."  Ideological
> "neoliberalism" in China -- which exercises a strong influence among
> the urban "middle class," the academy, etc. -- is now going on the
> defensive.
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