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China's post-Mao movement toward a mixed economy already permits Special Economic Zones, where foreign businessmen can set up factories, hire and fire workers and earn profits. Now leaders of the People's Republic have made yet another concession to capitalist ways, one aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship and, not so incidentally, easing China's massive unemployment problem...
...responsibility system is a triumph for material incentives. Only a few years ago, even raising chickens or pigs privately was ruthlessly condemned as an example of "taking the capitalist road." Today families can decide for themselves how best to farm their land, and some family members have been freed for other cash-producing activities. In the Jun Tan brigade Carpenter Liu Zhangying, 34, receives $212 a year building furniture. He explains: "Before, I had to hand over more than half of my carpentry income in order to get the work points I needed for my grain ration...
...YOUR'RE A FUCKING CAPITALIST! Does your daddy own a factory?" she yelled from atop the steps. "You like Stalin! You want to kill Jews," came the response, from a woman whose placard read "Feed Brezhnev to the Workers." For 45 minutes, a dozen from each side kept the shouting match alive, sometimes with a little shoving, the dialectic turned physical. For years, Harvard's Spartacus Youth League have held their weekly study session and speeches; for years they've been ignored by all but regular readers of Workers Vanguard. But last week they picked a topic explosive enough actually...
Such demands prove Solidarity's great promise as a model for change, in both socialist and capitalist countries. Should they succeed, they will have done what most called impossible--create a pluralist socialist state. Like revolutionaries of an earlier date, they are united partly by hate--not of capitalist overloads, but of distant state bureaucrats, who inflict as much pain and humiliation as any factory owner. More the unity of the oppressed than simply of labor. Solidarity represents a radical national ideal--a state where the citizens were really in control of all social facets of life. Walesa...
...Solidarity has come out for the restoration of the capitalist state in Poland, and that would take the workers' progress over the last 30 years and throw it down the drain," Richard Dean, a Spartacist member, said...