Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do

by Napoleoni, Loretta; Twilley, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781609804312
• ISBN10: 1609804317
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-04
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

With the end of the Cold War, it was believed that Western capitalism had finally triumphed over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: we are now witnessing capitalism's decline and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomicscharts the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the parallel decay of Western economies, still reluctant to consider China's model even as they acknowledge its tremendous power. Maonomicsis a call to heed China's example and avoid economic collapse. Based on first-hand reporting from China during frequent visits in the last several years Maonomicsconsiders the prevailing Chinese views and translates them for Western readers. For example, the Chinese are committed to a vision of democracy, though it is different from the West's. It emphasizes economic opportunity over voting, focusing on the fair distribution of wealth and prosperity. Napoleoni also separates failed Leninist political ideology from true Marxist theory, explaining that Marx's writings do not reject profit so long as it is used to benefit the people. China is realizing Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat, she argues, with giant steps towards wellbeing and prosperity for the Chinese people. Looking at the Chinese economy up close, few economists could deny that they are on the right track. Maonomicsdelivers a sharp and insightful account of the economic revolution that is shifting the global balance of power from West to East.

Author Biography

A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, LORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica and La Paîs. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana. 

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: Depressions in Progress	p. 15
Globalization And Communism
Exploitation Factories: Charles Dickens in Shenzhen	p. 25
The Race to the Bottom	p. 39
Chinese Nouvelle Cuisine: Marxism in a Neoliberal Sauce	p. 51
Beyond the Great Wall	p. 67
The Neoliberal Dream of Modernization	p. 81
Globalization and Capitalism
The World Is Flat	p. 103
Financial Neoliberalism as Predator	p. 119
In Union There Is Strength	p. 133
From Muhammad to Confucius	p. 145
The Great Wall of Renewable Energy	p. 159
Globalization And Democracy: A Shotgun Wedding
Looking at Washington and Beijing through Chinese Eyes	p. 179
Late Imperial Spin: Osama bin Laden as the Modern Attila	p. 193
Saboteurs of the Nation-State	p. 203
Supply-Side Economics	p. 215
The Full Monty	p. 225
Mediacracy	p. 235
The Thousand Evitas of Berlusconi	p. 247
Images of the Future
Scenes from a Marriage	p. 265
The Last Frontier	p. 279
Globalization and Crime	p. 293
Rousseau in Chinese Characters	p. 307
Epilogue: China Hands	p. 323
Acknowledgments	p. 331
Notes	p. 335
Glossary	p. 351
Further Reading	p. 357
Index	p. 363
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