"For China,
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the same problems faced by the Yugoslav economy, but on a vaster scale.
"The removal of the social net and the ability of factories to hire and fire on the basis of profitability, led to a significant portion of the Yugoslav work force being coerced to work as subsistence laborers in the sweatshops of Western Europe...Only in the case of China there will be far less likelihood of absorption into the labor markets of capitalist Asia, a pauperized sub-proletariat."
Neither bureaucratic arbitrariness nor capitalist market mechanisms can begin to solve the basic problems facing China.
For China, socialist democracy is a minimum prerequisite of economic survival.
The courageous fight of the Chinese students for political freedoms, and the stiff resistance by the workers and youth to the bureaucracy's attacks on the gains of the revolution, are signs that important sectors of the population want to push forward on the path to a truly socialist society.
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democracy is a mocracy is prerequisite of erequisite economic survival."
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