Video: China's Authoritarian Capitalism Global Trend?
Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Naomi Klein
Video (5min 14sec): China's Authoritarian Capitalism a Global Trend? Naomi Klein on China and the Olympics. Author and investigative journalist Naomi Klein believes that China is finally ready to show off a potent hybrid of the most powerful tools of authoritanism and global capitalism. To discuss the significance of China on the Olympics stage, Paul Jay spoke to Naomi Klein.
"They are the most successful capitalist economy in the world. To me the question is 'what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of efficiency and in the name of economic growth?' Because by those measures, China is the most successful economy in the world right now, by the measures we use in our own country.
And so to me in this model is that I see it as a warning. I see it as actually the global trend. You're talking about Russia. It is true that Russia had a democratization opening up period and a very anarchic reform process. China's answer to that was we're not going to have the democratization. We just going to ram through the reforms and as brutally as we want..."
