Ren Zhiqiang, a retired real-estate tycoon with close ties to senior Chinese officials, disappeared in March after he allegedly penned a scathing essay criticizing President Xi Jinping's response to the coronavirus epidemic.
This is 100% true, but this can't be used as a magical incantation to handwave suspect developments in the course of revolution. No more than we can order chinchilla coats on an Amazon Home and shrug it off as "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism." For a lay dirtbag leftist like myself, the billionaire question represents one of the more profound contradictions about the PRC. The way the situation is managed will have a deep impact on the legitimacy of the CPC and outcome of the revolutionary project in the longer term.
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This is 100% true, but this can't be used as a magical incantation to handwave suspect developments in the course of revolution. No more than we can order chinchilla coats on an Amazon Home and shrug it off as "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism." For a lay dirtbag leftist like myself, the billionaire question represents one of the more profound contradictions about the PRC. The way the situation is managed will have a deep impact on the legitimacy of the CPC and outcome of the revolutionary project in the longer term.
A member of the CPC did a sort of AMA on Reddit recently you might find some of this interesting, they answered a lot of questions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/itlyar/xi_jinpings_main_domestic_policies_and_their/
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