Who said anything about surviving...?
You.
Now that neoliberalism is complete there can be no society. There’s no such thing. Only markets and individual striving. Therefore, there can be no public spaces/goods. Both political factions are committed to this view in the US. Everything is financialized and commodified. Everything’s for sale. Everything must go. Finance now runs the US economy and has a heavy overhead. I see nothing fundamentally changing to reverse that trend. We simply don’t have the political capacity.
That's not surviving, that's being kept alive in pens like bears for their bile.
China is a lot closer to that scenario than we are and frankly if that kind of labor exploitation is part of your "mixed economy" I want no part of it.
Marx promised there would be revolts to even the odds when the oligarchs got too heavy handed, but the Chinese people stand less chance than the bears of revolting or escaping their plight.
Perhaps the American people may one day find themselves in conditions so harsh, but we aren't there yet.
China Labor Watch
