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Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and oppositional forces in the People's Republic of China over the last seventy years, Ralf Ruckus pulls back the curtain on Chinese politics.He looks at the labour strikes in the 1950s, the rebel uprising during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s, the struggles of urban and migrant workers since the 1990s and 2000s, and women's forms of resistance until today. Each of these struggles inspired left-wing groups and movements that criticised or challenged the regime of the Chinese Communist Party, from Mao Zedong's rule to the regime under Xi Jinping.Is the country still socialist today, the Chinese Communist Party a left-wing organisation, and the leadership indeed Marxist? The book sorts out the confusion by presenting the fascinating history of social movements and left politics in the People's Republic up to the present day

The Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic of social struggles from below followed by countermeasures of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has pushed the historical evolution of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1949--back cover

In the second part of this mini-series on Chinese capitalism in crisis, Ralf Ruckus discusses Li Minqi's recent book China and the 21st Century Crisis (2016) followed by a lively discussion with the book's author. Li presents the economic, social, and ecological limits not just of Chinese capitalism but of the current capitalist world-system as a whole, predicting the latter's collapse within the next fifteen years. While Li's argument on systemic limits is in large parts convincing, his views on a possible political solution are not. Ralf Ruckus writes: "If there is a chance to bring about the end of capitalism in China and globally, we have to learn from the experience of historical socialism—beyond the demonization of attempts to create a society without capitalist exploitation, and beyond the mystification of historical 'socialism,' which was meant to accomplish that but didn't."

Diese Studie beschreibt am Beispiel des chinesisch-taiwanesischen Unternehmens Foxconn ein Fertigungssystem, in dem westliche Konzerne ihre Geräte für Billiglöhne zusammensetzen lassen. Sie analysiert u.a. das Wohnarbeitssystem, fragwürdige Arbeitsbedingungen und verschiedene Widerstandsformen. (Andreas Ufen)