>>1884191> but I believe that the Chinese government and the CPC are deliberately sabotaging efforts to implement fordist principles into the country’s manufacturing sector, so the country’s industrial labour force remains cheap and readily exploitable for literally the entirety of the planet (yes even the ‘poor countries’ of the world). I believe that there is no other explanation for how the both governments can host about record economic growth and exports, while the country’s largest factories still rely on direct human labour to produce whatever the fuck the world needs or wants.Perhaps start by looking up some proofs.
But if you want an explaination, here is one:
The market cost of labour is geographically competitive, meaning that if productivity is generally high, even identical work (like servers, teachers, grocery shop employees) make higher wages in that are than in low productivity areas. This is true because if you paid the same starvation wages in the first world while the infrastructure and capital exists to be far more productive, some proles with connections will just start competing driving up wages, unions will organise to get a bigger share of the pie, etc.
Machines cost are identical whether they be in europe or asia or africa. This means that capitalist firms will move production that is high in direct labour costs to places with low productivity overal and push machinery into places with high productivity and thus higher average wages.
China was once such a low productivity area. The CPC used this to move all the manufacturing to China, to build up its domestic industrial base. Now we have a situation where most of the labour intensive work that can not be done economically with assembly lines (injection molding lego bricks is a lot simpler to automate than sowing complex clothes or assembling the next new iteration of phone version #95865 every 3 months) is done in the third world like china. China does not have large scale high tech automated assembly lines whose products they export, because those products are still manufactures closer to the import markets.
This in itself explains how despite growth in economic output, despite the construction of automated production lines, a good chunk of the chinese economy remains manual. It is that part of our global industrial output that is extremely expensive and difficult to automate, making manual assembly cheaper overall, especially given that chinese wages are still relatively comparable.
The existance of manual assembly lines in china, which, by the way, are already an example of "fordism", does not demonstrate a lack of automation overal. Its not like the electronics assembly factories are all artisanal, its all manufacture line individual steps which is what fordism is, i advise you to look up how those lines work irl. It is simply that large part of our manufacturing is cheaper to do manually, but the first world forgot that, since all the manual factory work is outsources to the other side of the world, leading to a terminal futurist scifi brain understanding of industry.
If you are actually a marxist you would look up if your gut feeling actually is supported by data, then try to find find disprovable hypotheses that explain the data in china and see if it works out in other countries. This is not a defense of china, the same thing is true all over the world. A lot of the shrimp caught in europe is processed in Marocco because its near impossible to automate and its way cheaper to get a bunch of underpaid marroccans to do it by hand. Shrimp peerers in marocca does not disprove the existance of other types of factories in marocco.