China’s current industrial system has certain lines of inheritance from the industry of the past socialist period, but fundamentally and chiefly, it was transformed and developed in a deformed manner by Chinese revisionism under the policy of state monopoly capitalism. Of course, without the complete industrial system built during the socialist period, Chinese revisionism could not have established, after the restoration of capitalism, a state-monopoly-capitalist economy centered on heavy industry and banking. However, after years of transformation and deformed development under Chinese revisionism, China’s industry at this point had long since become completely unrelated to the industry of the socialist period.
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China’s present-day industry should be viewed from both sides. Under China’s current state-monopoly capitalist system, industry has developed in a distorted way, with advanced and backward aspects existing side by side. Moreover, “advanced” and “backward” are also relative to capitalism; if measured by socialist standards, China’s industry today has long since fallen far behind.
Its advanced aspect is reflected in industrial productive forces’ ability to produce on a large scale—for example, the retail consumer goods of the light-industrial sector, as well as steel, cement, and other products of the heavy-industrial sector. Against the backdrop of industrial decline in other imperialist countries, this does indeed appear “advanced,” although only within the confines of capitalism. Yet even this kind of advancement is gradually turning into backwardness, because overproduction is so severe that the Chinese revisionists repeatedly issue orders to „limit production.“
On the other hand, after the Chinese revisionists restored capitalism, they followed a slavishly pro-foreign, foreign-dependent, and crawlingist line, so they remain extremely backward in many high-end fields. For example, China’s chip industry is still far behind that of the U.S. imperialists, and many technologies—such as core components for industrial products—are still at the mercy of foreign countries. The blades for tunnel-boring machines and the filter cartridges for water dispensers, for instance, have to be imported, while lubricating oil for automobiles is considered highest-quality when imported from the United States. Key components of domestically produced large passenger aircraft, such as their engines, still bear foreign brands. Airplanes and aircraft carriers are all patched-together imitations of comparable designs from the U.S. imperialists and Cold War-era Soviet revisionist blueprints dug out of old archives—how can this be called advanced? In areas such as rocket launches and putting satellites into orbit, the Chinese revisionists are also far behind the U.S. imperialists.
Overall, this is the present state of China’s industrial system, which arose from the special historical conditions following the Chinese revisionists’ restoration of capitalism.
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Ultimately, no matter how “developed” it becomes, it still cannot break out of the long-rotten, reactionary framework of capitalism. Capitalist relations of production have long since become shackles holding back the development of the productive forces, so the industrial system of Chinese revisionism today is already, like the industries of other capitalist countries, in terminal decline and breathing its last.
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I was completely exhausted from hauling things today. I had to move something up to the second floor. It wouldn’t have been a problem if it were just a bit heavy or difficult to pull, but they used a small plastic pallet to carry the heavy load, and it wasn’t arranged properly or stable. The pallet had already warped, so it was very difficult to get the forklift into it. Then, once it was lifted, it was extremely prone to collapsing. Wrapping it in plastic film didn’t help either; whenever it collapsed, we had to stack it all over again. It made me furious. Why not use a better pallet? Why couldn’t they arrange it in a spiral? Why are most of the carts so poorly maintained and difficult to pull? When people work, they often only think about themselves—once they’ve haphazardly put things down and stacked them, they just leave it at that. The task is completed, but this isn’t the workers’ fault, because they’re only completing the task. Although they do a poor job of it, under private ownership, that’s considered good enough. They’re working for those wages, not for everyone as they would under public ownership, so naturally they just go through the motions.
In the office, they mentioned that next week there will also be 100 tons of tea from Guming, plus an unknown quantity of another kind—I’ve forgotten how many tons. It just goes to show that people in the petty bourgeoisie still drink a lot of milk tea these days.
August 15
This is insane—why haven’t they replaced such a lousy capitalist yet? It’s just increasing workers’ labor costs.
By the way, why did “The 12:30 Work Diary” stop updating?
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A few days after that, my temporary job ended. I had kept a diary for several days, but at that point I happened to be at the lowest point of my internal ideological struggle. I didn’t know what to do and had begun to doubt what I should do with myself. It felt as though manual labor wasn’t having much effect, though in reality I was also being impatient for results. Of course, there were also some problems with my working environment: it wasn’t the kind of assembly-line industrial work. As a result, I went back to seeking pleasure and indulging myself. Later, Fenghuo finished revising the Guide to Ideological Struggle, so I read it again. Combining it with my own experiences and with what I had read in other people’s self-introductions on the forum, I finally realized that, for someone like me, a petty-bourgeois ideological struggle ultimately comes down to the relationship between individual interests and collective interests. If I continue to covet personal enjoyment, then I certainly cannot truly become proletarian. This was exactly reflected in the fact that I still maintained some of my previous indulgences during my labor; once the work ended, I felt even more as though I had regressed. But in the end, I still couldn’t summon the courage to give up my personal interests completely, and the new school term was about to begin. I feel that this period of labor was still quite a failure, and that it achieved very little in terms of transforming me. But it did make me aware of my situation. I’m about to return to school, and if I continue living that kind of life there, I feel like I’ll be finished all over again. I’m feeling pretty miserable right now—like the petty-bourgeois centrists in society, stuck in the middle: unwilling to give up my old way of life, yet knowing that it’s wrong. When I saw your questions, it still took me half a day to reply; there was certainly some avoidance in that. Sigh, as expected, petty bourgeoisie just run away. But I also know that I can’t keep running away. It feels like, ever since I went back to indulging myself, this period of labor has been a pig’s head and pig’s tail.
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Twelve Thirty, can you find some part-time work at school? What is your university life generally like?
Moreover, we can’t simply say that this summer’s labor reform was a complete failure. Even if the results were limited, that isn’t something to worry about. We shouldn’t fall into defeatism just because we haven’t seen any significant changes; instead, we should analyze the reasons, correct the problems, and recognize that we shouldn’t have any other path to take. Besides, labor reform is ultimately a long-term process, during which old ideas may resurface repeatedly.
What does “泡回去” mean?
@十二点半, why aren’t you replying anymore?
Sorry, I saw it earlier but didn’t have time and forgot. The „泡“ here was supposed to be „跑“—it was a typo.