The author reports on efforts by state-guided capitalists in China to head off growing worker unrest by using the managed election scam borrowed from Western ruling classes. The latter, of course, have developed this method of creating governing legitimacy into a science.
In a move that clearly indicates rising class tensions in China, the world’s largest contract electronic manufacturer, Foxconn, has decided to hold trade union “elections” at its gigantic factories, which employ 1.2 million workers. The move—backed by the Stalinist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime and the Western corporate giants that rely on sweatshops like those of Foxconn—is an attempt to avert a social explosion.