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Press conference by director of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Increasingly, the China model is cutting through. For example, the influential director-general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised yesterday the highly efficient response by the Chinese to the coronavirus outbreak. You can find a video excerpt here (I cannot seem to upload it) and a summary at Xinhua News, from which I … Continue reading Press conference by director of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Chinese speed: Two hospitals to be ready in Wuhan by 5 February (updated)

As I mentioned a little while ago, these days they speak of ‘Chinese speed‘: bridges built in record time, high-rise buildings with a new floor every 48 hours, an aircraft carrier in 24 months, a world-leading high speed rail network in less than 10 years, and so on. It should be no surprise, then, that … Continue reading Chinese speed: Two hospitals to be ready in Wuhan by 5 February(updated)

Chinese speed: Two temporary hospitals to be ready in Wuhan by 3 February

As I mentioned a little while ago, these days they speak of ‘Chinese speed‘: bridges built in record time, high-rise buildings with a new floor every 48 hours, an aircraft carrier in 24 months, a world-leading high speed rail network in less than 10 years, and so on. It should be no surprise, then, that … Continue reading Chinese speed: Two temporary hospitals to be ready in Wuhan by 3February

Lest we forget: The Soviet Red Army Liberated Auschwitz

Part of the comprehensive defeat of Hitler by the Red Army was the liberation of Auschwitz. This video, an interview with Ivan Martynushkin who was one of the first Red Amry soldiers into Auschwitz, says it all:

A Tale of Two Systems: How to Deal with a Natural Disaster

The following reflections were prompted by a comment from my wife. She had been reading one of the Danish newspapers in regard to the Wuhan Coronavirus Pneumonia. A journalist asked a Danish medical expert why SARS (in 2003) or the Coronavirus were detected first in China. The specialist’s answer: because the Chinese have excellent and … Continue reading A Tale of Two Systems: How to Deal with a NaturalDisaster

Washing Brains: How to Understand Chinese Marxist Research

Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After I joined the revolution, [my brain] slowly washed, washed for several decades. What I received … Continue reading Washing Brains: How to Understand Chinese MarxistResearch

Free books: Collected Works of Adorno and Horkheimer (in German)

As part of the process of retiring, I am yet again culling my library. All books that I have studied in the past but will never read again are going. Many are going to visiting scholars and students from China, but some are not. For example, the Collected Works of both Adorno and Horkheimer are … Continue reading Free books: Collected Works of Adorno and Horkheimer (inGerman)

China’s Socialist Market Economy (final article completed)

After some years of reflection and research, I have finally completed a longish study of China’s socialist market economy. A little earlier, I posted a short version of my study of East European market socialism. This was necessary background work, but it became clear that the Eastern European experiments were very preliminary and qualitatively different … Continue reading China’s Socialist Market Economy (final articlecompleted)

China’s Socialist Market Economy (pre-publication article)

After some years of reflection and research, I have finally completed a longish study of China’s socialist market economy. A little earlier, I posted a short version of my study of East European market socialism. This was necessary background work, but it became clear that the Eastern European experiments were very preliminary and qualitatively different … Continue reading China’s Socialist Market Economy (pre-publication article)

State of disaster: Australia’s bushfires, a pariah state and the catastrophe of neoliberalism

What a situation:: a bushfire season like no other. No-one can recall anything like it. To be sure, Australian trees like fire and every summer we have bushfires, but never like this. The fires began in September (way earlier than usual) and by now thousands have burned across eastern Australia. Some statistics might begin to … Continue reading State of disaster: Australia’s bushfires, a pariah state and the catastrophe ofneoliberalism