This article is pretty important as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been very careful not to simply take the rhetoric of the Chinese government at face value; I’ve made a point of cautiously judging them off the back of their actual actions instead. I think after these recent developments, no one can possibly deny that the Chinese government is in fact a dictatorship of the proletariat. Under no circumstances would a bourgeois dictatorship have imposed itself over its own ruling class in this way, to the point where its driving them all to become emigres, rats jumping off a ship they think is sinking. This is the behaviour of the defeated Russian Whites or the Cuban Gangster class scrambling over the sea to Miami.

When someone holds out their hand and assures you they’re your friend you should rightfully be cautious before taking it, but when your enemies rant and rave about how evil they are, you can rest assured they’re on your side.

Mr. Wu, who is a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions … called after the party congress to talk about his “political depression.” He said he used to be very nationalistic, believing that the Chinese were among the smartest and hardest-working people in the world. Now, he and many of his friends spend most of their time hiking, golfing and drinking. “We’re too depressed to work,” he said.

The absolute horror, being too depressed to work because the grifter class might not be able to freely exploit the working class anymore in the future and drowning your sorrow by going golfing and drinking.

For decades, China’s business class had an unspoken contract with the Communist Party: Let us make money and we’ll turn a blind eye to how you use your power.>

I feel like they honestly and truly misunderstand exactly who has/is the power in a socialist nation. This one paragraph sums up how bourgeois ruled society sees everything as being “allowed” by their hands. They see the corrections of corruption that had been allowed to spread as being “evil”. Private companies and the rich that own said companies aren’t the “good guys” here. It was them that were and have been “allowed” to function by the party of the masses. I hope we see working examples of how other post industrial nations can begin to be moved to socialism come out of China.

Western bourgeoisie provide the best pro-CPC propaganda.

Thank you NYT for inadvertently providing ammo to use against ultras.

Oh no… Capitalists getting clapped? 🥺

Pretty much a mask off moment, they are now explicitly calling for the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

“Wont somebody think of those poor-poor rich Billionares ?!?!??” 😭😭😭😭

Would someone please think of China’s billionaire elites who we now care about all of a sudden!!?!? 😭😭

Anglo cope

Anyone got a version of this that isn’t paywalled?

Aren’t there several billionaires in the general secretariat?