Chinese Media Cites Foxconn Suicides In Calling For New Proletarian Revolution

[KurtFF8]

Source (http://www.businessinsider.com/state-owned-newspaper-calls-for-proletarian-revolution-in-china-2010-6)


Maoists have expressed concern with the growth of inequality in a country that only decades ago paid the same wage to all workers. Calls for a new proletarian revolution appears today in the state-owned People's Daily (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90002/96743/7014872.html).
Although many Chinese enjoy economic liberalization, technically everyone is still a Maoist. Watch what happens to the boom when this opinion catches on.
People's Daily: (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90002/96743/7014872.html)
Wherever exists exploitation and suppression, rebellion erupts. If the exploited are a majority of the society, the revolt draws even nearer and comes with a louder bout.
For the past 30 years witnessing China's meteoric rise, multinationals and upstart home tycoons have rammed up their wealth making use of China's favorable economic policies as well as oversight loopholes. In sharp contrast, tens of millions of Chinese blue-collar workers who have genuinely generated the wealth and created the prosperity have been left far behind.
Columnist Li Hong points to the Foxconn suicides and Honda strike as a sign of growing worker dissatisfaction -- and part of the global populist movement:
Never expect something like labor strike to happen in China? Please bear in mind that workers on this globe belong to the same group. When the exploited laborers are forced to toil extra time, work under huge pressure and earn disproportional tiny wages -- often at less than 1,500 yuan (US$220) a month in China, the disappointment and frustration gather and grow to anger, and eventually revolts break out.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/state-owned-newspaper-calls-for-proletarian-revolution-in-china-2010-6#ixzz0qHc3CUsM

The "technically everyone is still a Maoist" part of this article is of course silly. But this article does provide some interesting insight to the developments in China right now. I have a feeling that most on the Left will see this attempt by the CPC to coopt some anger by the working class of China. It's an interesting place to watch for sure.

[Proletarian Ultra]

The revivial of Marxist-Leninist thought in China (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/30/18599353.php) is one of the great underreported stories of the last decade. (Remember Jiang Zemin? Where is he now?)

I'd recommend everybody put maoflag.net and wyzxsx.com through Google Translate. It will shock the shit out of you.

[Rusty Shackleford]

The revivial of Marxist-Leninist thought in China is one of the great underreported stories of the last decade. (Remember Jiang Zemin? Where is he now?)

I'd recommend everybody put maoflag.net and wyzxsx.com through Google Translate. It will shock the shit out of you.

could you translate some more important articles? first of all, im lazy, and secondly i think it may do good for everyone to see them. because i was hoping the same thing, for a return to marxist-leninist thought.

[RedStarOverChina]

The traditional left within the CCP has never died. But I do not think their ideas and methods can cope with modern China. We need a true "new left".

[Proletarian Ultra]

could you translate some more important articles? first of all, im lazy, and secondly i think it may do good for everyone to see them. because i was hoping the same thing, for a return to marxist-leninist thought.

Some good labor reporting:
Wuhan, China Resources Breweries strike, eight people have been missing (http://www.maoflag.net/?action-viewthread-tid-1449832)
Is up "The Contract"; Resources workers stop work; Eight people have been "disappeared"

Polemics against capitalists in the bureaucracy:
Development and Reform Commission "to encourage non-public economy" (http://www.maoflag.net/?action-viewthread-tid-1449516)
The lower the wording of the poor cover, despicable intentions! The State Council said the new 36 as "to encourage and guide private investment", followed by its Development and Reform Commission said that "to encourage non-public economy," Is this in the end is a country of socialist public ownership of the State Council Development and Reform Commission, or private ownership " Folk "and" non-public, "the State Council Development and Reform Commission? Do not think that only "public" or "private" in one word, you will be thoroughly exposed his ugly face? Do not treat the real communists, just people in all walks of life and the people as fools up!

Harsh critique of the official CCP:
Vanguard of the working class as the "N +1" jumped to his death stand up (http://www.maoflag.net/?action-viewthread-tid-1449414)
Indeed, ever since the "vanguard of the Chinese people and Chinese people" forcibly squeezed into the vanguard of the working class, the Chinese Communist Party is no longer the original sense of the ruling party or the vanguard of the working class

Articles on Marxist-Leninst theory:
Conscientiously study the theory of propaganda about communism (http://www.maoflag.net/?action-viewthread-tid-1449795)
Commemorate the Communist Party of China set up 89 years; Conscientiously study and give wide publicity of Marxism-Leninism; Mao Zedong Thought and the theory of communism: Engels in the "Principles of Communism," the article said: "Communism is about the liberation of the proletariat the conditions of the doctrine." ("Selected Works of Marx and Engels," vol216pages)

Occasionally they publish cautious pro-GPCR pieces; predictably there's a whole lot of Mao appreciation.

[KurtFF8]

The traditional left within the CCP has never died. But I do not think their ideas and methods can cope with modern China. We need a true "new left". Isn't there one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Left

[The Vegan Marxist]

Isn't there one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Left

Wow, that's actually pretty cool. Never heard about these guys. Though, I haven't paid much attention to China anyways. Will now though! :thumbup1:

[RedStarOverChina]

Isn't there one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Left
That's why I said there needs to be a TRUE new left.

The "New Left" as it stands doesn't offer any alternative other than the same old path tread by the Chinese youth since the May 4th Movement. The New Left is not a unified movement--and it is still characterised by its "Left nationalism".

[KurtFF8]

(also, labourstart covers china pretty well)
The "New Left" as it stands doesn't offer any alternative other than the same old path tread by the Chinese youth since the May 4th Movement. The New Left is not a unified movement--and it is still characterised by its "Left nationalism". While I'm sure there are significant problems with it, the mere existence of an important "New Left" in China (that would even have as big of a page on wiki as it does) points to broader trends within Chinese society itself. That is, the working class movement is quite ready to make it known that things cannot go the way they are. There was also an article that pointed to different things (like the recent suicides) that hint at an "end to cheap Chinese labor" for American goods.

[Matty_UK]

The revivial of Marxist-Leninist thought in China (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/30/18599353.php) is one of the great underreported stories of the last decade. (Remember Jiang Zemin? Where is he now?)

I'd recommend everybody put maoflag.net and wyzxsx.com through Google Translate. It will shock the shit out of you.

I've paid a visit to the wu you zhi xiang bookstore a few times, it's nigh on impossible to find (through an unmarked door looking like a fire exit round the back of an office block, then up 9 flights of stairs) but despite this each time I went it was pretty busy. I was sort of worried it would only be ageing old school maoists, but to my (pleasant) surprise it seemed to mainly young people, university students and so on.

The only trouble is there seems to be quite a strong nationalist streak amongst the crowd who gathers there. At a friends birthday party one of the girls from wyzx stormed off after an argument with an American socialist who accused her of being a nationalist and not a socialist. Not sure if he was just being a douchebag though.

[Crux]

http://www.chinaworker.info/zh/content/

We regulary report from mainland china. Two weeks after the launch of our underground paper we had 800 subscribers, I have no idea what we are at now. We also have groups in Taiwan and Hong Kong that have been growing lately. I regulary post our articles in the chinese language forum, since chinaworker.info is regulary blocked in mainland china. revleft for some reason isn't.