Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Internet discussion in China on the exploitation of workers

by John Chan from World Socialist Web Site. The author has been monitoring Chinese web sites and finds that working people are starting to become conscious of what kind of "workers paradise" they are living in.
Chinese people had been constantly told that in China the “working class controls the state power” but nevertheless learned about the reality of capitalist exploitation. The fact that workers committed suicide and take other forms of desperate action demonstrated that for working people, becoming the masters of their own lives was only a “remote dream”.

Even the leading capitalist publication, Financial Times, is getting worried. Read this.