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  • geikei [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Also private companies in China above a certain size are forced to have CPC members in their decision making board and on various levels so if Xi is pushing for more CPC presence and control in big conglomerates that would appear on the surface as conglomerates employing more marxist phds (unsurprisingly also CPC members)

    Also maybe it's to get on the good side of the party for some and good pr towards the state or even needing marxist graduates to mediate the back and forth between party and it's control and the private company

    • FuckingFerengi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine being a member of the most powerful communist party in the world, holding a position of power at the commanding heights of the largest national economy in history, getting to regulate and monitor the actions of some of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world. I’m beyond jealous.

    • Opposition [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      CPC members have been hit hard the last couple of years. They're the ones that get tagged to "volunteer" to man all the virus testing centers and stand outside toll booths telling motorists to open their phones and display their green codes. Plus in school you have to attend all sorts of meetings in your nonexistent spare time. It's pretty tough.

      • geikei [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah i'd imagine is hard. Pulling of zero Covid required and requires huge grassroots party efforts. And that it succeeded it shows that at least party still can function and mobize at those levels. Sure a lot of members probably are fed up , especially yougner ones, but they have helped save millions of lives and a lot of them along wih a majority probably acknowledges it

        • Opposition [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          By "volunteer" I mean they get kicked out of the Party if they don't. And it's work your regular job and then come out and spend your evenings and weekends away from family and rest doing repetitive jobs they don't like. Nobody wants to be the hall monitor, scanning everyone's health code to see if they're allowed to exit the highway.

          • geikei [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Well I understand that but at the end of the day they are grassroots members of a dem Central org at a time of great crisis. If socially necessary mobilization and hard work is dictated it's something you signed up for. And if you didn't and thought those days of having to bust your ass doing mass work through the party are over for China well too bad