Abstract
The Shenzhen Jasic struggle of 2018-2019 signals a turning point in migrant labor struggles in China since the mid-1990s, and it explicitly demonstrates a shift toward left politics, departing from a civil society framework which barely analyzes ideology and class politics, thus showing little potential to overcome class inequality. The Jasic struggle's key characteristic of student-worker unity compels us to revisit Marxism and Maoism in understanding today’s emancipatory politics and labor movements. This revisiting of Marxist Maoism is attempted on three layers: a return to class politics; a return to communism; and a return to Mao’s mass line. These three “returns” are not retrospective politics romanticizing the past. Instead, they draw upon historical experiences, cultural resources and communist legacies to fight for a more egalitarian society in the future.
| Translated title of the contribution | Turning Left: Student-Worker Alliance in Labor Struggles in China |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 133-157 |
| Journal | Sociología Histórica |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 8 Apr 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |