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Social inequalities in China or crisis for Europe?

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Social inequalities in China or crisis for Europe?(AGAINST THE CURRENT)

Article Excerpt
Readers in the West have for some time now associated the economic ascendancy of China with a proliferation of social conflicts and ongoing abuse of human rights.

For those on both the Left and Right, there is a logic of affirmation about such tensions: state-capitalism is at its authoritarian worst in China. For the Left, social conflict registered as the condition or symptom of intense economic transformation grafts nicely with well-rehearsed humanist if not Marxian formulations about the inequalities inherent to capitalism. And the Right cannot quite reconcile the fact that increasingly open markets do not equate with the entry of liberal democracy.

Conveniently, the spectacle of people protesting over land expropriation and corrupt officials segues into the next news item. We bask in numbness before the gentle glow of our cheap plasma TVs made in China, distracted by thoughts of the new dishwashers on sale at the local...

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