but can’t it be done by capturing their wealth and therefore diminish their power?
This is definitely the case in modern China, where the Communist Party has a strong hold over the country and its bourgeois class, so internal counter-revolutionary fervor isn’t as terrifying of a threat as it was in the beginning periods of the PRC’s establishment. But in its inception, the PRC had to secure its future and be very strict toward the lord class, lest the lords attempt a counter-revolution, which as @Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml has said, is very common in every revolution. Plus, many PRC citizens still had the suffering they endured under the lords fresh on their mind, as opposed to now where feudal lords no longer exist in the same capacity.
and aren’t Chinese billionaires currently exploiting the working class again? so there is still the bourgeois class, right?
Yes, the bourgeoisie and billionaires still exist in modern China, but do not have the level of control over society that they do in the West. Yes, those billionaires are still exploiting the working class. It is one of the many contradictions that China has to contend with as it develops socialism in a capitalist world.
wow, wow, thank you for that article! just finished reading it, it was awesome :D
but honestly it made me feel like an absolute idiot, lol, but I guess I needed it.
But in its inception, the PRC had to secure its future and be very strict toward the lord class, lest the lords attempt a counter-revolution, which as @Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml has said, is very common in every revolution.
still killing millions of people sounds like a really sad event, I mean millions of lives … T_T
This is definitely the case in modern China, where the Communist Party has a strong hold over the country and its bourgeois class, so internal counter-revolutionary fervor isn’t as terrifying of a threat as it was in the beginning periods of the PRC’s establishment. But in its inception, the PRC had to secure its future and be very strict toward the lord class, lest the lords attempt a counter-revolution, which as @Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml has said, is very common in every revolution. Plus, many PRC citizens still had the suffering they endured under the lords fresh on their mind, as opposed to now where feudal lords no longer exist in the same capacity.
Yes, the bourgeoisie and billionaires still exist in modern China, but do not have the level of control over society that they do in the West. Yes, those billionaires are still exploiting the working class. It is one of the many contradictions that China has to contend with as it develops socialism in a capitalist world.
Here’s a good read on the subject of billionaires in China.
wow, wow, thank you for that article! just finished reading it, it was awesome :D
but honestly it made me feel like an absolute idiot, lol, but I guess I needed it.
still killing millions of people sounds like a really sad event, I mean millions of lives … T_T