it's fucking A! It's A! IT IS THE ANSWER LETTERED A! I LOVE COLLEGE! I LOVE COLLEGE SO MUCH! I'M LEARNING SO MUCH! :matt-jokerfied:

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I wonder if you can be the annoying kid in the class and ask the professor "Sir I'm just curious because my search is turning up empty, but could you give an example of a rich Chinese government official? Like what is their equivalent to the Clintons or Bush? For reference of course, I'm curious about learning more about this seeseepee elite you mentioned on the previous test..." :very-smart:

    Or maybe ask them about c), are they living under a rock or something?

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      2 years ago

      God I was so obnoxious asking questions like this. Professors hated me.

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      There's an answer to that and it's not good 😬

      CPC officials aren't allowed to be publically rich, it used to be a fairly open secret a lot of them were fucking loaded, after Xi's anti-corruption push it's probably? gotten a lot better but no real public information's ever been available. Regardless nonparty members still hold a lot of power in elected bodies and in particular the National People's Congress, China's highest legislative body has enough billionaires and otherwise obscenely rich people on it to push the net worth of the average member over 100 million USD, and that number has only been rising over the course of their term.

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        The claim wasn't that there are rich people in the party, but a particularly rich elite that supposedly rules the party from the shadows. When you compare the corporate influence in US politics it is supposed to contrast to something like the DNC being a completely democratic institution and not ruled by like half a dozen families and their billionaire friends.

        At this stage of SCC it is impossible to completely remove influence of the capitalists in the party, but it is also impossible to frame that as some sort of highly corrupt party elite supposedly ruling democratically. It is not hard for someone to find points to criticize the CPC, it just requires them to not be mad drunk on ideology.