Marxist Moonbats Move to Motivate Maoist Markets

EAST MONTPELIER — Local warriors in the battle between capital and labor are moving their ops — to China.

[snip] Their ambitious aim is to help mitigate the negative effects of the global market economy model espoused by Gov. James Douglas and the Vermont business leaders who recently concluded a joint prospecting trip to China.
“My fond hope is that I can work with people in trade unions and share my experiences in Western labor-organizing practices and collective bargaining,” David-Friedman says. [snip]

In this political environment, David-Friedman’s activities and analysis are fraught with ironies and subtleties.
As a labor organizer from the world’s leading capitalist country… notes ruefully that most of the students say they have little use for the Marxist worldview that she regards as essential to understanding history and politics. [snip]

They understand your history and politics; they rejected it out of hand.

“Sure, there are sweatshops” and strict limitations on individual freedom, David-Friedman concedes. But there’s much more to China than that, she adds. Communist Party apparatchiks and overseers at Guangzhou University have never attempted to censor her or Stuart’s teaching, David-Friedman points out. “We can say anything we want to in the classroom,” she notes.

As long as it is in the “Little Red Book.”

But China’s communist revolution has gone off the rails, David-Friedman adds. The party “has divorced itself, tragically, from allowing itself to be led by the needs of workers,” she adds. [snip]

The “Radiant Future” that worked so well in the USSR, Sweden, Cuba, and France is now in China’s path. I’m sure they will embrace it.

“In the end, one or the other will triumph. A funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.” - Vladimir I. Lenin, 1920

Well Ilyich, the fat lady sang and went home.

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