(2022-05-23). Red theory: The role of the forces of production. fightbacknews.org Up to now we have studied dialectical materialism and given a general overview of its application to history, historical materialism. Now let's look more closely at some of the core concepts that make up Marxism's materialist conception of history, starting with the forces of production. | Any social system, whether we are talking about capitalism, socialism, feudalism, or what have you, has a particular mode of production upon which it is based. What do we mean by a mode of production? Simply put, it is a way of producing. A mode of production is the historically constituted way in which production is carried o…
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(2022-05-23). What Is 'Socialism With Chinese Characteristics'? popularresistance.org Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discussed China's socialist model with economist John Ross, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. | Ross criticized Western left-wing academics like David Harvey, who have argued that China's economy is capitalist or even neoliberal. | "The Chinese model has nothing to do whatever with neoliberalism. And that's why it produced totally different results," Ross said. | "China has raised, by World Bank criteria, since 1978, 850 million people out of poverty," he emphasized. "This is the greatest contribution to human righ…