On Sunday 13 August 2023, Carlos Martinez spoke at a launch event for his latest book The East is Still Red – Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century.
The launch was co-hosted by the International Manifesto Group, Friends of Socialist China, Midwestern Marx and the Critical Theory Workshop.
Carlos Martinez is an independent researcher and political activist from London, Britain. He is the author of The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century (2023), No Great Wall: On the Continuities of the Chinese Revolution (2022) The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse (2019). His main area of research is the construction of socialist societies, past and present. He is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China and co-founder of No Cold War.
Watch the full launch here: youtube.com/watch?v=m8IqgNi3n-g&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fgeopoliticaleconomy.org%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt
About the book
China provides a powerful living example of what can be achieved with a socialist system; by a Marxist-led government firmly grounded among the people. The East is Still Red explains the escalating hostility by the imperialist powers towards China and clears up various popular misconceptions.
All available evidence indicates that not only is the Communist Party of China committed to Marxism, but it is a leading force for the development and enhancement of Marxism in the 21st century.
If the first century of human experience of building socialism teaches us anything, it is that the road from capitalism to socialism is a long and complicated one, and that ‘actually existing socialism’ varies enormously according to time, place and circumstances. China is building a form of socialism that suits its conditions, using the means it has at its disposal, in the extraordinarily challenging circumstances of global imperialist hegemony.
Carlos Martinez provides a concise, deeply researched and well argued account that China’s remarkable rise can only be understood by acknowledging its socialist past, present and future.
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