Been a bit since we had a post like this
“Ten Crises” by Wen Tiejun. Outlines the history of the People’s Republic of China from the context of ten crisis points, how the crises arose, and how the CPC managed them. I’m not that far in but the main thesis seems to revolve around a “cost-transfer theory”-- the idea that the costs of industrialization lead to crises and these costs must be transfered outside of urban areas to lessen the severity of these crises. While every developed (first-world) country transfers these costs to underdeveloped, colonized countries; China transfers these costs internally to rural areas, eliminating the “need” to participate in neocolonialism.
I want to read this - do text versions exist do you know? Or is it just a 500-page pdf?
sadly i just have the 500 page pdf
This is interesting. Lots of comparison to Marx’s analysis of the Clearances?
