Capitalists, once detested, are now welcomed into the CCP. What a waste of millions of lives to get back to square one.

The irony is incredible. After decades of violent land redistribution, "class struggle", and millions of lives destroyed in the name of eradicating private wealth, the CCP did a complete 180.

Through doctrines like the "Three Represents", they literally invited corporate billionaires into the party ranks and gave them seats in government advisory bodies.

We hear endless lectures from Bernie, AOC, far left Dems, the international far left, International Socialist and the anti billionaire crowd about how the West is ruined by "oligarchs". Yet they remain strangely quiet about a system where a nominally Communist regime and billionaire titans run the country hand in hand.

In the West, wealthy people try to influence politics through money. In China, the State created the billionaires, put them in the Party, and strictly controls them,right up until they step out of line (just ask Jack Ma).

Capitalists, once detested, are now welcomed into the Chinese Communist Party.

"The CCP, which continues to grow and now has some 95 million members (around 6.5 percent of the population), has gradually transformed itself into a “white-collar” organization. In the early 2000s, then-President Jiang Zemin lifted the ban on recruiting entrepreneurs from the private sector, previously seen as class enemies, so that the CCP would no longer represent only the “revolutionary” classes—workers, peasants, and the military—but also the country’s “advanced productive forces.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-communist-party-capitalism/

The story is based on a theNation news report

While Bernie Sanders and AOC barnstorm the U.S. on their "Fighting Oligarchy": tour, railing against billionaires and wealth concentration as the root of America's ills, a NewsNation panel featuring socialist sympathizers echoes the same grievances, sky high rents, unaffordable housing, and cry its the billionaires fault, while people sleep on streets.

This anti oligarch rhetoric rings hollow against the ultimate historical irony, Maoist China slaughtered millions in the name of eradicating wealth and class enemies, only for the CCP to later embrace capitalists, recruit billionaires into the Party, and build a hybrid system of state controlled crony capitalism where political power and private fortunes are deeply intertwined.

The real lesson isn't that billionaires are uniquely evil in the West, but that concentrated power whether revolutionary communists or today's socialist critics,often ends up enabling or becoming the very elites they decry.

Why are voters drawn to Democratic Socialists?

Watters hitting all bases, as he reports on The Donor Class "Oligarchy" Within the Party.

While Bernie and AOC campaign against billionaire influence and corporate power, Watters references an insider expose by former Dem fundraiser Evan Barker . Barker describes a political apparatus funded by ultra wealthy donor elites in Manhattan apartments driving identity politics and virtue signaling .

The irony highlighted here is that while progressive tours target external billionaires, the political machinery backing the party relies heavily on elite donor money and consultant networks.

Edited July 24Jul 24 by riclag

as long as there is a second amendment, there wont be socialism.

9 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

as long as there is a second amendment, there wont be socialism.

Perfect post. Suggest asking "what pronoun do you prefer on your headstone?"