"In 2012, there were 99m impoverished people in China. Beijing spent some 1.5tn renminbi lifting them up and sent 2.9m officials to the poorest villages to implement relief plans” = China as "campaign state, or a mobilisational regime” @kristenelooney
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I very much like the distinctions btw "austerity realism” v. capitalist realism And Common sense v. Good sense (Gramsci) That
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