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Li Minqi (born 1969) is a Chinese
Marxian economist.[2]
Biography
Li was a student at the Economic Management Department of
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
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Li was arrested after advocating
Marxist after extensive reading of the works of Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, and others while a political prisoner until his release in 1992.[3] Li spent the next two years traveling in China, debating with remaining liberal dissident activists and conducting his own research into political, economic, and social development in modern China, using fake identification to visit provincial and city libraries. His view became one opposed to the mainstream, being that Mao Zedong's influence was a "revolutionary legacy rather than a historical burden for future socialist revolutionaries."[4]
In 1994, he authored the book Capitalist Development and Class Struggle in China,state-capitalism and advocating democratic socialism.[6]
After firmly completing a political and intellectual break with the mainstream Chinese liberal tradition and their political counterparts, he established himself as a revolutionary Marxist. Li arrived in the
graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst [B.A. (summa cum laude) Economics University of Delaware (1996)]. Since then, he has been among the foremost promoters of the Chinese "New Left."[7]
Li went on to author many Marxist articles for Monthly Review in this period, notably "After Neoliberalism: Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism?".[8]
In 2001 Li's focus shifted to
bookstore in Philadelphia.[9] In late 2001 he expanded his study of China in relation to World-Systems in a critique of Jiang Zemin's theory of Chinese social strata (a refutation of Marxist social relations from a Chinese perspective, arguing that China is moving towards a "middle-class society"), in his “China’s Class Structure from the World-System’s Perspective.” Li argued that China's economic rise would in fact greatly destabilize the capitalist world-economy in various ways and contribute to its final demise. Building upon his previous two papers, he wrote “The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy: Historical Possibilities of the 21st Century.” [10] He then incorporated these and several other papers into his book "The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy" [5]
in 2009, in which he argued, based upon an analysis of environmental data in relation to the Capitalist world economy, that the only way to avoid the inevitable collapse of civilization is to adopt a socialist world government by the middle of the 21st century.
From 2003 to 2006, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on political economy at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and then went on to teach at the University of Utah, where he currently teaches.
He later worked on translation of
The Real News.[11]
Selected works
- China and the Twenty-First Century Crisis. London: Pluto Press (October 2015)
- The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy. London: Pluto Press; New York: Monthly Review Press (November 2008 / January 2009).
- The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. NYU Press. March 2009. ISBN 978-1-58367-182-5.
- Three Essays on China's State Owned Enterprises: Towards An Alternative to Privatization. Hamburg: VDM Verlag(October 2008).
- ‘Socialism, Capitalism, and Class Struggle: the Political Economy of Modern China,’ Economic and Political Weekly, XLIII(52): 77–96, December 27, 2008 – January 2, 2009.
- ‘Climate Change, Limits to Growth, and the Imperative for Socialism,’ Monthly Review, 60:3 (July–August 2008), pp. 51–67.
- ‘An Age of Transition: The United States, China, Peak Oil, and the Demise of Neoliberalism,’ Monthly Review, 59:11 (April 2008), pp. 20–34.
- Minqi, Li; Chaohua, Wang; Dan, Wang (May–June 1999). "A Dialogue on the Future of China". New Left Review. I (235). New Left Review.
- ‘Response to Lau’s “China: Labour Reform and the Challenge Facing the Working Class”,’ Capital and Class, 65 (1998).
See also
Wikiquote has quotations related to Li Minqi.
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- World-systems approach
- Chinese New Left
References
- ^ "MINQI LI - Home - Faculty Profile - the University of Utah".
- ^ Grassroots political reform in contemporary China. Elizabeth J. Perry, Merle Goldman
- ^ Preface: My 1989 to: Li, Minqi. The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. Monthly Review Press, 2009. Print.
- Monthly Review Press, 2009. Print.
- ^ a b "Minqi Li, Dr". www.econ.utah.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07.
- ^ Li, Minqi. "CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND CLASS STRUGGLES IN CHINA." 1993-1996. 6 Aug 2009 <http://www.econ.utah.edu/~mli/Capitalism%20in%20China/Index.htm Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine>.
- ^ Page xvii, Li, Minqi. The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. Monthly Review Press, 2009. Print.
- ^ "Monthly Review | After Neoliberalism. Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism". January 2004.
- ^ Page xviii, Li, Minqi. The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. Monthly Review Press, 2009. Print.
- ^ ‘The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy: Exploring the Historical Possibilities in the 21st Century,’ Science & Society, 69:3 (2005), pp. 420-448.
- ^ "T. Boone's Windy Misadventure". 22 July 2016.
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