https://iclfi.org/pubs/wvtv/2025-china
On November 8th 2025, the Northwestern Chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel titled "What is China for the Left?"
Prompt:
- What would it mean to call China communist? Is it?
- Is China proof a socialist revolution can take place without the proletariat?
- Is it appropriate to say that Maoism overcame Stalinism? Is China Maoist today?
- Did Deng Xiaoping betray the Chinese Revolution? If so, how?
- What lessons should we draw from the seventy-five-years' legacy of the Chinese Revolution, and from a century of Marxism in China? Why, if at all, are such lessons relevant for the Left today?
Panelists:
- Joe Iosbaker (Freedom Road Socialist Organization)
- Devin (Spartacist League)
- Jerry Harris (Global Studies Association)
- Yueran Zhang (Sociology prof. from UChicago)
