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  • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There's a difference between one oligarch being assassinated by the other oligarchs for threatening their interests and a state executing numerous billionaires for corruption.

    Combine this with other measures the PRC's taken against corruption, with nationalizations, with the expansion of agricultural cooperatives, with the state siding with workers who beat their new factory owner to death for trying to fire them, with Xi making like $20,000 a year, with the state forbidding layoffs during COVID, with the greatest reduction in absolute poverty in human history (as we know, poverty is extremely profitable to capitalists), and I'm inclined to believe there's no secret capitalist oligarchy ruling the PRC.

    Also, it's the CPC, not the "CCP"; right wingers like to say "Chinese communist" because it makes them sound more threatening to racist reactionaries.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      What you are describing as the state "siding" with the workers is what is called a "concession" because there was literally tens of thousands of them. There is still some legacy of the communist era left somewhat intact. The party is a bourgeois party through and through, it is a bad interpretation of what that means to assume that this would mean that capitalists should necessarily be above the (bourgeois) law. It wasn't just "corruption" they were guilty of, they were running mafias and murdering people. Even bourgeois nations prosecute mobsters.