[lbo-talk] Xiaoping Wei Interviews Michael Heinrich

John Gulick john_gulick at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 6 21:32:04 PST 2013


Henwood quipped:

Marxists in China! Who knew?

Gulick writes:

But 95% of them are productive forces Marxists and 5% of them are class struggle Marxists. Yesterday I visited the Shanghai Museum and saw the fabulous permanent exhibit on the history of Chinese coinage. Did you know that money is just a neutral technology permitting a wider/deeper division of labor and greater economic efficiency? And that its development occurs in a sequence of stages, each one besting the previous one? It has nothing to do with the state trying to regularize tributary social relations! These guys might as well be Adam Smith...



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