There was a strike among workers in a Chinese factory over unpaid wages where they took their boss hostage. When the police arrived, they determined that it wasn't their problem, and told the management that they should probably pay the back wages.
The AP notes that "it is not rare in China for managers to be held by workers demanding back pay or other benefits, often from their Chinese owners. Police are reluctant to intervene, as they consider it a business dispute."
Admittedly my memory did a little editorializing here, but I think it's safe to say that Americops would respond very differently.
In a capitalist state the police would intervene on behalf of the bourgeoisie. If we're applying the dotp correctly we should go the whole hog. The script should be fully flipped. Non-intervention is not enough.
To be fair this is part of the Dengist strategy of economic growth, which is to instead embrace entrepeneurs and "kulaks", etc, instead of denying them a role in society. Non-intervention is as good as they can get without clearly playing favorites to the economic classes, otherwise there could be a cascading effect that would upturn the economic order and make these bosses wanna skip town before their stuff gets nationalized.
There was a strike among workers in a Chinese factory over unpaid wages where they took their boss hostage. When the police arrived, they determined that it wasn't their problem, and told the management that they should probably pay the back wages.
can you link a source for this?
Here's an NPR article on one specific case, although it notes that this sort of thing apparently happens often. The relevant paragraph about the Chinese police:
Admittedly my memory did a little editorializing here, but I think it's safe to say that Americops would respond very differently.
Police should intervene on behalf of the workers.
In a capitalist state the police would intervene on behalf of the bourgeoisie. If we're applying the dotp correctly we should go the whole hog. The script should be fully flipped. Non-intervention is not enough.
To be fair this is part of the Dengist strategy of economic growth, which is to instead embrace entrepeneurs and "kulaks", etc, instead of denying them a role in society. Non-intervention is as good as they can get without clearly playing favorites to the economic classes, otherwise there could be a cascading effect that would upturn the economic order and make these bosses wanna skip town before their stuff gets nationalized.