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A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If the CCP's all about championing the humble worker then surely they'll approve of this guy's actions, right?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

CCP shuts down alternative unions and prevents any left wing demonstrations, it's ironic, you don't have to fall into a party line when you're not a party member yet they're being hunted down as if they just broke the rules of ~~centralised democracy~~ democratic centralism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

centralised democracy

I think you mean democratic centralism.

"Centralised democracy" I think would make sense when contrasting parliamentarian vs. direct democracy. None of the ML parties ever implemented democratic centralism but bureaucratic centralism (ie. party leaders decide, base follows). It was never intended to be an organisation principle for a whole country, just a party, OTOH it's a neat way to dress up autocracy as democracy so of course it's been done plenty of times.

Lenin described the SPD as democratically centralist and well, yes, maybe back then. The structures are still in place but the whole party is paralysed when it comes to making decisions so in the end the Seeheimer rule, i.e. the neoliberal wing. It's a rather perverse situation: An actually still lefty base, or at least union people, following a neoliberal vanguard with red paintjob.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yea brain fart, good catch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

it’s ironic, you don’t have to fall into a party line when you’re not a party member yet they’re being hunted down as if they just broke the rules of centralised democracy

It's because you just broke the rules of dictatorship ;P

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Stakanov found a lighter

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Surely they'd prefer workers to go through official channels so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages. They're not anarchists lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From the article:

Police, however, said the claim that “800 yuan in wages were owed” was false, and that the company was in the process of approving payment of 5,370 yuan in wages. It blamed the factory fire on the arsonist’s suicidal thoughts, and said police would deal strictly with those spreading rumors.

So the "official channels" would just tell him unpaid wages don't exist

[–] throwawayacc0430 -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Official Channels

So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣

so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages

I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?

[–] atzanteol -2 points 1 week ago

Have you lit a factory on fire or are you a bootlicker too?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣

What if I told you that the US and China are different countries and that they have different governments?

I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?

I oppose adventurism.

People should be organized and follow democratic centralism, parties and unions and organizations and such. They shouldn't just go off on whatever adventure pops in their head because they're mad at some rich guy for being a piece of shit.

Again, that shit is for anarchists, and in case you haven't noticed they haven't been very historically successful.