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Owen Paine's avatar

The continued operation of artisan production inside the transactional market place

Requires a firm grip

On the durability yes tenacity

Of petite bourgeois culture

Even when total sublation exists

At the technical level

At the foundation of it all

Transactional markets themselves

Are booming away

In once red china

Long since October led on

to the first 5 year plan

Us devotees of Diamatics

Are hardly surprised by that

Marx or Mao wouldn't be either

Beware

Recipes for

Cook shops of the future

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Carl Davidson's avatar

Don't forget the CCP, with 95 million members at present. The Efurt program would not have helped them much, with over 90% peasants in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal order, with works only 2%. But they figured out protracted people's war and islands of 'new democracy' in liberated zones, a strategy to get them to power in 1949. Then afterwards, a complex class struggle to develop the country, still going on. But the CCP keeps its grip leading the way.

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