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Contra el fetiche de la representación

Posted on 2021-10-07 by gongchao

La lucha de clases en China más allá de la gran narrativa de izquierda – Una descripción general de los efectos y las causas de las huelgas y los disturbios laborales en China durante la última década, y cómo lo que defienden algunos izquierdistas y ONG es inadecuado para el avance de la lucha de clases en el país: https://translatoriac.noblogs.org/gongchao-contra-el-fetiche-de-la-representacion/ Continue reading →

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Against the Fetish of Representation – Class Struggle in China Beyond the Leftist Grand Narrative

Posted on 2013-04-05 by gongchao

This article by friends of gongchao (April 2013) starts with the increase in social struggles in workplaces and elsewhere in recent years. Restricted by state and capitalist repression, these struggles happened without effective union representation. Facing the specter of the crisis and social unrest, capital and the state reorganized their repressive counter-strategies and introduced forms of mediation to regain control over the process of class re-composition. Meanwhile, labor activists and left-wing academics who support workers’ struggles in China press for the establishment of ‘independent’ unions, following the leftist grand narrative of increasing class power through labor representation in the capitalist state. In that way they risk re-legitimizing (reformed) capitalist structures. Continue reading →

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