Friday, September 27, 2024

if it were actually true that china had reached overcapacity, it would be a cause for great celebration. this is capitalist newspeak for the marxist term "superproduction", which is a prerequisite for actual communism.

alas, we're not actually there yet.

i think the idea she's actually trying to get across is dumping, which is a valid grounds for tariffs, but i don't think it's actually true. the problem isn't that china is making too much stuff, it's that it makes everything so much cheaper because it doesn't pay it's workers.

i have been calling for years for organized labour in the west to make the difficult and dangerous decision to try to organize chinese factory workers. that's what needs to be done.