China persecutes 'Marxists'

Submitted by Spikymike on February 22, 2018

Doesn't surprise me but it seems even students discussing such ideas in addition to workers organising independently along class lines can expect to be targeted by the Chinese state and it's police, reported here;
https://freedomnews.org.uk/chinese-state-persecutes-marxists/

Craftwork

6 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Craftwork on February 22, 2018

The revolutionary legacy of state capitalism steered by an anti-capitalist proletarian party demanded that its rule be based on correct philosophy and correct (social) science. This is why the régime was more ferocious towards rivals than towards enemies. The mere existence of ‘another Marxism’ for example was intolerable as it robbed the Party of its intellectual foundations, hence its hatred for social democrats, left communists and other heretics. After the defeat of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the intellectual participants were separated in two groups: those coming from the pre-war right, were decorated, the former communists and socialists thrown in jail. The former could be won over, their sin was venial, but the latter were seen as traitors, misinterpreters of the true doctrine, so their sin was mortal.

https://libcom.org/library/back-banality-gm-tamás

Spikymike

6 years 1 month ago

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Submitted by Spikymike on March 1, 2018

Now China bans internet use of the consonant N according to this item from a baffled news reporter here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/china-bans-the-letter-n-internet-xi-jinping-extends-power
Any chance it might relate to this here: www.quinterna.org/lingue/english/0_english.htm

ajjohnstone

6 years 1 month ago

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Submitted by ajjohnstone on March 18, 2018

A follow-up link to a Chinese worker blog that is a satirical account of Karl Marx visiting the Foxconn factory in China

http://chuangcn.org/2018/03/marxconn/

Spikymike

6 years 1 month ago

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Submitted by Spikymike on March 18, 2018

Thanks for that link ajj - brightened up my day no end. Recommend others to read it including the commentary at the end!

Spikymike

5 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Spikymike on December 29, 2018

And some protests continues despite a crack down by the state here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/asia/chinese-university-crackdown-students.html

Nymphalis Antiopa

5 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Nymphalis Antiopa on December 30, 2018

There's a discussion, mainly about these 'marxist' students, here: http://dialectical-delinquents.com/articles/class-struggle-histories-2/china-jasic-workers-strike-a-discussion-november-2018/
And there's a lot of detail (too much detail imo) about China here: http://dialectical-delinquents.com/china-2/