Market Stalinism – The Danger Of Limited Revolution

What’s the limit of a revolution? That’s the question that keeps coming to me – in a decade or more of continuous international stagnation, in which everything in many developed countries is largely the same, but shabbier, as it was in 2008 or so, we can find that outside of that developed bubble things have...

Singing Red and Smashing Black – The Weird Legacy of Bo Xilai

"Not even the worst TV scriptwriter would come up with something like this." – Bo Xilai, at his own trial For people who know modern Chinese history, it’s a very easy shorthand to reduce some of the last century’s most pivotal themes only to dates and events – 1949 for liberation or tragedy, 1958 for...