China's Path to Development
Against Neoliberalism
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Beschreibung
This book is a treatise against neoliberalism illuminated by the path of China. China is a model to be mimicked, but more so theoretically than by replication. If anything, nations of the global South must rid themselves of neoliberally imposed ‘one-size-fits all’ models, instrumentalised to shift value to US empire. Neoliberal models, robbing nations of their histories and resources, are negative ‘best practice’ serving the interests of the hegemon. Developing nations need to search for the theory that corresponds to their own conditions and development strategies. China’s experience, anchored in labour as the historical agent, offers numerous theoretical cues as to how to build comparable home-grown paths. Thinking development with a subject voids reductionist politics in favour of sober class analysis. The study concludes by restating the age-old wisdom that there is no development without the rule of labour.
This book investigates how China represents an alternative development model to neoliberalism. It provides a novel critique of neoliberalism, and contrasts recent neoliberal development recipes with a selection of Chinese development policies to underline their stark differences. As China rises and the US ebbs, it is timely to inject anti-mainstream ideas into the development debate that may make for better development policies. The purpose of this work is to foist some characteristics of the Chinese model as alternatives to the dominant ideology, providing a critique of bourgeois democracy. This critique pivots on concepts such as bounded rationality, the pervasiveness of unconscious and emotion-ridden patterns in human mental processes, and the fact that powerless and uninformed majorities can easily be manipulated by powerful minorities. The task of grappling with these complex contradictions is difficult, but crucial. The author endeavors to widen the acceptability of the PRCmodel for other peripheral countries - a key and unresolved challenge in substantiating the concrete realisation of socialist democracy in China. An original contribution that is both theoretically and empirically grounded, the book proffers a practical alternative to neoliberalism. It is relevant to students and scholars interested in China, political science and international relations in both the developed and the developing world.
Identifies and analyses key alternative features of the PRC’s developmental trajectory that can be adopted as a model for other peripheral countries Presents a critique and practical alternative to neoliberalism that is both theoretically and empirically grounded Provides an original treatment of the nexus between democracy and socialist development
Autor*in
Ali Kadri
Themen in »China's Path to Development«
Neoliberalism vs China Marxism Political Economy Developing world Development model Democratic processes Working class Hegemonized working classes Imperialist class Slavery & Colonialism' Militarism