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China's Path to Development

Against Neoliberalism

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  • © 2021

Overview

  • Identifies and analyses key alternative features of the PRC’s developmental trajectory that can be adopted as a model for other peripheral countries
  • Presents a critique and practical alternative to neoliberalism that is both theoretically and empirically grounded
  • Provides an original treatment of the nexus between democracy and socialist development

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This book is a treatise against neoliberalism illuminated by the path of China.  China is a model to be mimicked, but more so theoretically than by replication. If anything, nations of the global South must rid themselves of neoliberally imposed ‘one-size-fits all’ models, instrumentalised to shift value to US empire. Neoliberal models, robbing nations of their histories and resources, are negative ‘best practice’ serving the interests of the hegemon. Developing nations need to search for the theory that corresponds to their own conditions and development strategies. China’s experience, anchored in labour as the historical agent, offers numerous theoretical cues as to how to build comparable home-grown paths. Thinking development with a subject voids reductionist politics in favour of sober class analysis. The study concludes by restating the age-old wisdom that there is no development without the rule of labour.

Authors and Affiliations

  • National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Ali Kadri

About the author

Dr Ali Kadri teaches at the National University of Singapore and is a visiting senior fellow at the LSE Centre for Human Rights Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy. His recent books include the Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World, Imperialism with Reference to Syria, and A Theory of Forced Labour Migration: The Proletarianization of the West Bank under Occupation (1967-1992).

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