It's a good anecdote but I think the CPC wage flattening and installing Communist agitators at top-level positions in private organizations (and members of the bourgeoisie publicly stating that they expect their organizations to be nationalized in their lifetime) is the best indication that the national bourgeoise is in a very weak position.
That and the most powerful members of the bourgeoisie like Jack Ma being publically humiliated (and his projects dismantled) if not executed outright for organizing, are the best signs that they aren't in control.
China's game is to keep the national bourgeoise happy and sedate them enough from organizing as a political class, just as the United States bribed workers post WWII by making enough of them into home owners and landlords. Murdering and expropriation everything they had ala the Soviet Union militarized and motivated that class to destroy the DOTP ala Kruschev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Wealth concentrates into the smallest number of individuals anyway (ala the 14 families in the United States), and if those dwindling numbers of potential oligarchs can't take control of the nation's mental means of production (media, culture, hegemony etc) that class is moribund as more of them lose out in the market and are slowly proletarianized (or at the very least made into precarious petite-bourgeoise managers).
It's a good anecdote but I think the CPC wage flattening and installing Communist agitators at top-level positions in private organizations (and members of the bourgeoisie publicly stating that they expect their organizations to be nationalized in their lifetime) is the best indication that the national bourgeoise is in a very weak position.
That and the most powerful members of the bourgeoisie like Jack Ma being publically humiliated (and his projects dismantled) if not executed outright for organizing, are the best signs that they aren't in control.
China's game is to keep the national bourgeoise happy and sedate them enough from organizing as a political class, just as the United States bribed workers post WWII by making enough of them into home owners and landlords. Murdering and expropriation everything they had ala the Soviet Union militarized and motivated that class to destroy the DOTP ala Kruschev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Wealth concentrates into the smallest number of individuals anyway (ala the 14 families in the United States), and if those dwindling numbers of potential oligarchs can't take control of the nation's mental means of production (media, culture, hegemony etc) that class is moribund as more of them lose out in the market and are slowly proletarianized (or at the very least made into precarious petite-bourgeoise managers).