A critical part of understanding China today is understanding its social character: is it (state) capitalist or (market) socialist?

Date and time

Sun, May 16, 2021

9:00 PM – 11:00 PM CST

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About this event

A critical part of understanding China today is understanding its social character: is it (state) capitalist or (market) socialist? What are the relevant facts? David Lane disinters the historical evolution of the term state capitalism to contest its application to China. John Ross argues China is socialist. Roland Boer builds on his Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and contests Western Marxist misrepresentations of Chinese Socialism. China scholars Jenny Clegg and Mick Dunford inject their own insights.

Speakers

David Lane, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and currently Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham and is a visiting professor at Peking University. He has written extensively on Marxism, socialism (particularly the USSR) and post-socialism, capitalism and industrial societies, the world economy, elites and classes. Recent publications include: Changing Regional Alliances for China and the West (With G. Zhu) (2018); The Eurasian Project in Global Perspective (2016); (With V. Samokhvalov) The Eurasian Project and Europe (2015); Elites and Identity in the Transformation of State Socialism (2014); The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism (2014). He has recently had articles published in Critical Sociology, The Third World Quarterly, International Critical Thought and Mir Rossii.

John Ross, Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China(RDCY)

Roland Boer, Professor of Marxist philosophy in the School of Marxism at Dalian University of Technology in China. Earlier, he taught at Renmin University of China and in a number of universities in Australia. He has also been a visiting professor in the Academy of Marxism in Beijing (within CASS). Among numerous works on Marxism and philosophy, he has published the five-volume work, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth (Leiden: Brill, 2007–2014). In 2014, it was awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. He has recently published a monograph entitled Socialism with Chinese Characteristics—A Guide for Foreigners (Singapore: Springer, 2021), and will soon have published with Renmin University Press a work entitled Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance.

Discussants

Jenny Clegg, independent writer and researcher; former Senior Lecturer in International Studies and long-time China specialist; author of China's Global Strategy: towards a Multipolar World (2009); activist in peace and anti-war movement in Britain.

Mick Dunford, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex, Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Managing Editor, Area Development and Policy.

Moderated

Radhika Desai, Professor of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Author, Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire.

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