The Left Forum will be meeting this weekend at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice. I will be participating in the first panel directly. The panels are the work of U.S-China Friendship, which seeks to understand and build positive relationships between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China
Norman Markowitz



Panel/Workshop Year:

2015

Abstract:

China is a mixed economy with a large capitalistic sector and a large state dominated socialist sector. A person can point to the capitalist features and say China is not socialist. Or one can point to the socialist sector and say China is not capitalist. Both are true: a contradiction in a society where there is combined and uneven development. Marxist analysis is about grasping the contradictions and identifying the main aspect in the concrete situation, i.e. understanding the dynamics. We share the view that the question of political power is fundamental. The working class holds power in China through the Communist Party, the direction of development is towards socialism. But there are huge holdovers from 2000 years of feudalism. The Chinese officially self- describe their society as being in the "primary stage of socialism." Our panel will affirm that going onto 70 years, China remains a socialist country in control of the commanding heights of the economy...and with a leadership and policy that is at the service of the Chinese people in its human needs, and their protection in a hostile capitalist world.

Panel/Workshop Topics:

Political Economy And The Current Crisis

International

Environment

Participants

Chair/Facilitator:









Name: Gary Hicks

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Speakers/Co-Facilitators:









Name: Luo Xiaoping

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Name: Norman Markowitz
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anel/Workshop Year:
2015


Abstract:
The Peoples Republic of China has been at the center of two "sea changes" in the world since 2008; the first change is the tremendous relative strengthening of the states created by socialist revolutions (China, Vietnam, Laos, "North" Korea, and Cuba) and relative weakening of capitalist countries; the second change is the relative strengthening of the state sector in China since 2008, and relative weakening of the private sector. The big question is how is this strength used? Is it to help humanity complete the transition to world socialism, or to try to perpetuate the status quo of imperialist domination of a global capitalist world order?


Panel/Workshop Topics:
Africa
Political And Social Movements


ParticipantsChair/Facilitator:









Name: Gary Hicks
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Speakers/Co-Facilitators:









Name: Wahd'i Halabi
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Name: Duncan McFarland
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Name: David Ewing
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