ABSTRACT
Critiques of consumption and commodification can only be truly radical when they specifically include reflection, on the nature of socialism as an alternative system. While an inevitable amount of contextually specific hybridization has occurred following in particular the diplomatic difficulties caused by Mao's frosty relationship with Stalin and Krushchev. It remains the case that spatialization of the political agenda is a tendency that can be considered universal in the application of state communism. This territory explores better understand the dynamics of modern communist life as manifested in the spaces of the South China Mall. Dagongmei' or Factory Girls' comprise Dongguan's principle demographic, making it one of the largest factory cities in China' and indeed the world. Another quote from Marx is particularly poignant here: Roughly coincident with the de-regulation of the Western market economy in the 1980s. China's newly found emphasis on wealth creation shared curious common ground with the rhetoric of free market populism that spurred globalization's march.
