Fake Capital, Persecuted Speculators & Exploited Enterprises: News Highlights, December 2021
This post is the first in a series of monthly summaries of highlights from Chinese-language news and social media, offering some analysis of economic trends and the changing character of class struggle in China. Through these posts, we hope to give English readers a...
Smart, Disaffected & Unseen: Li Yifan on the Rise & Fall of a Proletarian Subculture
Below is our translation of an interview with Li Yifan about his documentary film We Were Smart (杀马特我爱你), along with a new preface by our friend BG about the film’s significance for China’s emerging movement of “autonomous spaces.” The Chinese interview, conducted by...
The State of the Plague (interview & new book pre-order)
Our new book, Social Contagion and Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China from Charles H. Kerr Publishing, is now available for pre-order from AK Press. Copies will be mailed out to our sustainers on Patreon by mid-October, then AK will start mailing the...
天安门广场和进军建制
本文摘自《闯》杂志第二期《边疆》（2019年）里的中华人民共和国经济史第二部分《红尘——中国的资本主义过渡》，此章节原文为《Tiananmen Square & the March into the Institutions》。我们将在未来几周发布《红尘》的中译本全文。...
Bombing the Headquarters: Desperate Measures in a Time of Involution
CW: violence, suicide Two months have passed since Mr. Hu strapped explosives to his body and walked into a local government building in his home village in southern China. Hu took his own life and those of five others in the building with him on a Monday morning as...
“In this way, our account drew on Jacques Camatte as much as TC to ask: How did Marxism become a theory of modernization? How did the theory of revolution against capitalism become a theory of how to carry out industrialization...” | @chuangcn interview w/ @endnotesjournal