In 2019 workers and peasants made up 34.8% of the Communist Party, while professionals, managers, students, and Public Servants made up 37.2%. So at minimum they are outnumbered by a far more materially rich, and influential/powerful, faction within the party.
public servants are ‘workers’,
Marx wouldn't think so, the interests of civil servants are aligned with that of the state, not with those of the Proleterian and Peasantry.
The bureaucracy is the state formalism of civil society. It is the state's consciousness, the state's will, the state's power, as a Corporation. (The universal interest can behave vis-a-vis the particular only as a particular so long as the particular behaves vis-a vis the universal as a universal. The bureaucracy must thus defend the imaginary universality of particular interest, i.e., the Corporation mind, in order to defend the imaginary particularity of the universal interests, i.e., its own mind. The state must be Corporation so long as the Corporation wishes to be state.) Being the state's consciousness, will, and power as a Corporation, the bureaucracy is thus a particular, closed society within the state
Unless it can be proven that the Chinese state is genuinely a DOTP, the interests of its civil servants are opposed to those of its Proletarians and Peasantry.
You can't justifiably argue that "a large chunk of the retirees are likely former workers" when a large chunk of the active membership now are not workers.
Unless you believe that the interests of the Chinese PMC are genuinely aligned with those of its Proletarian and Peasantry, their large presence in the communist Party is counter to the interests of the Chinese proletarian and Peasantry.
Occupation of a party member. There are 6.445 million workers, 25.561 million farmers, herders and fishermen, 14.403 million professional and technical personnel in enterprises, public institutions and social organizations, 10.104 million management personnel in enterprises, public institutions and social organizations, and 7.678 million staff in party and government agencies There are 1.960 million students, 7.104 million other professional staff, and 18.661 million retirees.
Regardless, the CPC is deeply unrepresentative of the Chinese working class, as 27.5% of the Chinese labor force is Industrial workers, but they're a far smaller percentage of CPC members, at minimum they are under 7% of the party's membership. (as, the category of workers does include more than just industrial workers, and they wouldn't fall under any other category of CPC members)
China's a well managed State-Capitalist society, which has been beneficial for its working class, but the CPC is not Communist.
In 2019 workers and peasants made up 34.8% of the Communist Party, while professionals, managers, students, and Public Servants made up 37.2%. So at minimum they are outnumbered by a far more materially rich, and influential/powerful, faction within the party.
Marx wouldn't think so, the interests of civil servants are aligned with that of the state, not with those of the Proleterian and Peasantry.
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Unless it can be proven that the Chinese state is genuinely a DOTP, the interests of its civil servants are opposed to those of its Proletarians and Peasantry.
You can't justifiably argue that "a large chunk of the retirees are likely former workers" when a large chunk of the active membership now are not workers.
Unless you believe that the interests of the Chinese PMC are genuinely aligned with those of its Proletarian and Peasantry, their large presence in the communist Party is counter to the interests of the Chinese proletarian and Peasantry.
Look at the CPC's own breakdown of the occupations of their members (translated)
Regardless, the CPC is deeply unrepresentative of the Chinese working class, as 27.5% of the Chinese labor force is Industrial workers, but they're a far smaller percentage of CPC members, at minimum they are under 7% of the party's membership. (as, the category of workers does include more than just industrial workers, and they wouldn't fall under any other category of CPC members)
China's a well managed State-Capitalist society, which has been beneficial for its working class, but the CPC is not Communist.
It is absolutely a DOTP
That's an incredibly broad spectrum of people. And it isn't clear what divides these people from "workers" dialectically.
It's beginning to sound like the anti-union line, where you try to claim organizers aren't Real Workers.
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