Should have just given the man his stapler.
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Where's his picture so we can canonized him like St Luigi.
Should have given him his $111
Fight back!
Note that RFA is mentioned as a very bad source in other communities.
RFA is a literal CIA propaganda outlet. Like directly created and funded by the CIA to spread anti China propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia_(Committee_for_a_Free_Asia)
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Well China is more or less state capitalist now so... Based CIA?
I don't know if I'm joking or not, I hate both the CIA and China so whatever.
Meanwhile most Americans who are forced to work full time with no paid vacation or healthcare instead go off and say, "I don't pay attention to politics, it's depressing. I'm just gonna work on myself," as they accept never being able to afford their dream vacation, their own home, or that new truck they desperately need.
Based
Ummm, based?
What a king
BASED
This is how you do it!
We (the west) often look at the chinese with some amount of arrogance about them being "peasants".
Truth is, Winnie Pooh has to take some care, because they will fuck things up if their situation gets worse instead of better.
I mean, people who think the Chinese people are just 'peasants' tend to be pretty goddamn ignorant.
Systems are difficult to oppose in every society. We're all just trying to get by.
ignorant is too light, I say racism, say whatever you want about china, if you see Chinese people as peasants you're a racist POS
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Peasants? In one of the top capitalist countries?? Haha, good one... They certainly have farms, but that's just one end of the production ..
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"just 800 yuan (or US$111)"
"just"
Fuck man, I'd go ballistic over $111 of unpaid wages, and that's probably a bigger chunk of that employee's monthly wages than mine.
Most payments in China are monthy, not weekly/bi-weekly as with in the west.
You'd be mad too if you find out you're not gonna be paid for work done for the past month*.
Edit: *Or if its only partial payment
Most payments in China are monthy, not weekly/bi-weekly as with in the west.
Where in "the west" do you live? My paychecks (Switzerland) are definitely monthly.
I only ever heard of North Americans getting paid weekly/bi-weekly as standard.
With west you mean usa? Most of Europe gets paid on a monthly basis.
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My first reaction was "That's not very much - guess they should have paid him!"
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We should all strive to be more like this man.
If the CCP's all about championing the humble worker then surely they'll approve of this guy's actions, right?
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
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.
Yea brain fart, good catch
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A quick peek at the article doesn’t show any fatalities/injuries, so based?
No fatalities/injuries means the management team hasn't learned a thing. So, cringe.
Idk. On one hand I really appreciate the energy but on the other hand this is kind of fucked up for everyone else that works there, and I assume there were people inside when he did this. Like what are all his coworkers going to do for work now that the factory is burned down? I know that's part of why capitalism sucks but it's not like they can do anything about it as individuals.
what are all his co-workers going to do
form a union?
They’re already in a union, this is China. All companies over a certain size are unionized by law.
Usually that works best before you burn the factory down
There's plenty of other factories that might even pay their workers.
Burn down the executive's houses?
Cave Johnson made a lemon for that.
Burn down the executive~~'s houses?~~.
FTFY.
Assumption they were getting paid considering he wasn't
Proletariat Uprising
Power to the people!
To quote the CCP (which is ironic, given they are the oppressors): “革命无罪，造反有理！” (Revolution is not a Crime, Rebellion is Just!)
800 yuan to this person could be equivalent to the entire factory for the company
The Pingshan county police confirmed an incident of arson and said the arsonist had been detained at the scene of the fire.
A better way to do it is to wait a couple of weeks, burn the place down so it looked like a naturally occurring fire, and not get caught.
Just $11? Just? If you need that money, then it's a lot of money to you. But capitalists always use double speak. They could have said that the company was trying to stiff him over a mere $111, which would have been 0.000001% of the company's operating costs.
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