@DrSimEvans: Wow – China just built more offshore wind capacity, in 2021 alone, than the rest of the world had managed in the last 5yrs put together Its 26GW now accounts for half of the world's 54GW total...…
The fact that they’re realizing systematic environmentalist projects like this kind of supports my argument that, unlike the Anglosphere, the People’s Republic of China actually has a strong socialist movement. A capitalist class would be highly unlikely to pursue something like this on its own, since that would involve prioritizing use‐value over exchange‐value, but communism can easily do this when it has a significant amount of political power in society. That’s why dismissing the PRC as ‘capitalist’ is crude analysis and deeply misleading.
The fact that they’re realizing systematic environmentalist projects like this kind of supports my argument that, unlike the Anglosphere, the People’s Republic of China actually has a strong socialist movement. A capitalist class would be highly unlikely to pursue something like this on its own, since that would involve prioritizing use‐value over exchange‐value, but communism can easily do this when it has a significant amount of political power in society. That’s why dismissing the PRC as ‘capitalist’ is crude analysis and deeply misleading.