Central planning isn't a relic. It's a mechanism for defining use value objectives in an economy, and China's green industrial revolution proves it works.

intlsolidarity.substack…walks Steven D Grumbine through how China's state discipline over capital, constructive markets, and energy sovereignty create development trajectories impossible under neoliberalism. The dual-credit policy that scaled EV production. The state-owned enterprises building renewable infrastructure. The Communist Party governance that subordinates exchange value to social need.

This isn't about defending every Chinese policy. It's about understanding how sovereignty stops value extraction, how planning enables climate action, and why the Global South watching China sees possibilities that the imperial core refuses to acknowledge.