It is. Though China also doesn’t pretend its current mode of production is anything other than glorified dirigisme for the time being. Even when they hit the “socialism button” on time, the market would still exist. They’d just be in a better position to transition into a planned economy after that (in theory).
What is even the CPC’s justification or explanation for socialism-oriented market economics to be Marxist or socialist at all? That makes no sense to me.
If it was “we’re walking towards socialism and will abandon the current model when we get there”, I’d get it. But saying they already achieved it and they are in a more “advanced” stage of Marxism, that just sounds like hardcore revisionism……
Like if what they have now is already socialism, what will they do in 2050? Expand the SEZs to the whole country…? Allow even more national bourgeois into positions of power in the party?
But saying they already achieved it and they are in a more “advanced” stage of Marxism,
They are not saying this. The SME is still a lower stage of socialism. If you want to see their justification, you will want to read authors from China or those who cite Chinese sources. You can read Roland Boers SwCC A foreigners guide, or if you want something shorter, there was a recentish paper “Analysis of the innovation and development of the socialist market economy theory” by Jiayong Hu, just to name two.
If you want to understand china’s decisions here on a longer time span, you can look into Cheng Enfu, like his book China’s Economic Dialectic.
It is. Though China also doesn’t pretend its current mode of production is anything other than glorified dirigisme for the time being. Even when they hit the “socialism button” on time, the market would still exist. They’d just be in a better position to transition into a planned economy after that (in theory).
No, they consider SwCC and the socialist market economy to be novel developments in Marxism
What is even the CPC’s justification or explanation for socialism-oriented market economics to be Marxist or socialist at all? That makes no sense to me.
If it was “we’re walking towards socialism and will abandon the current model when we get there”, I’d get it. But saying they already achieved it and they are in a more “advanced” stage of Marxism, that just sounds like hardcore revisionism……
Like if what they have now is already socialism, what will they do in 2050? Expand the SEZs to the whole country…? Allow even more national bourgeois into positions of power in the party?
They are not saying this. The SME is still a lower stage of socialism. If you want to see their justification, you will want to read authors from China or those who cite Chinese sources. You can read Roland Boers SwCC A foreigners guide, or if you want something shorter, there was a recentish paper “Analysis of the innovation and development of the socialist market economy theory” by Jiayong Hu, just to name two.
If you want to understand china’s decisions here on a longer time span, you can look into Cheng Enfu, like his book China’s Economic Dialectic.
There is also this book: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003267355/socialist-economic-development-21st-century-alberto-gabriele-elias-jabbour