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Obviously we're big fans of Twang here at the Antifada.

We especially want to get them on now that their new book,

Social Contagion, has just come out on Charles H. Care Press.

We're big fans of their previous two journals.

Number one, Sorgum in Steel, which is sort of a retelling of the Chinese Revolution, and

Chu Frontiers about the current crisis of capitalism in China. And we think it's so important because as this new

Cold War rhetoric heats up China is increasingly portrayed as this communist

bogeyman.

Many see the image of China as this strong authoritarian state,

with a Marxist tradition as being very sympathetic and Chwang doesn't say that you're wrong

for having those sympathies but they do make an intervention from a

communist perspective based in class struggle that we shouldn't just take that

aesthetic at face value that we have to look at how the Chinese state actually

works the condition of the working class, the way that some of the economic

and ecological catastrophes and crises that face the West, also face China China and in general that we should keep class struggles

central to our perspective of understanding the world and so we don't just get

bogged down in this question of which nation state do we identify with more.

So, and this new book, The Social Contagian, largely focuses on China in the era of the pandemic.

Where the pandemic.

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