I believe that the real prospects for any kind of renewal of the radical left in South Korea,

and I think this is true in virtually every major capitalist country is a great internationalization of

perspectives because the recovery of the South Korean economy since 2008 has largely been based on economic

dealings with China. There are 4,000 South Korean firms invested in China and

China has now replaced the United States as the main trading partner of South Korea and it has replaced the United States as the main trading partner of Japan.

So there's a certain kind of momentum. I do not want to be overhasty about this, but sort of a decoupling, maybe that's not the term I want to use from an American centered export oriented kind of

economic strategy to something more Asia centered. I believe it's in that

context that the workers movement itself really has to link up with,

in the Korean case with Japanese workers and now, for example, with these recent, very interesting strikes in June and China, to the extent it's possible with Chinese workers.

That's a difficult road to Ho because you can't just go to China and say where's the nearest union office because the official unions of course are almost entirely controlled by the government and would frown on such overtures.

But nevertheless, those kinds of connections

are developing.

I've been speaking with Lauren Goldner.

He is the author of a number of books,

including most recently Herman Melville between Charlemagne and the

anti-Mosaic Cosmic Man, Ra's Class, and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology and an American Renaissance

writer.

He's also the editor of a new online journal called

Insurgent Notes and we also have a link to that. Thank you so much Lauren for being

on the program. Oh it's been great. Hello folks and welcome to

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