The Marxist economist Professor Richard Wolff just put out a half hour video on China called The Phenomenon of China, which has been widely viewed on YouTube. It's great that Wolff is talking about China. But, as a Marxist, why is he glossing over important questions about how capitalist class forces have shaped China's economy, with major impacts on millions of people's lives? In this video, I talk about what Wolff says about Chinese urbanization, and provide a very different perspective.

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Sources:

Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work:
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Shaohua Zhan, "Hukou reform and land politics in China: Rise of a tripartite alliance", The China Journal (2017): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...