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the ban on recruiting entrepreneurs from the private sector, previously seen as class enemies, so that the CCP would no longer represent only the “revolutionary” classes—workers, peasants, and the military—but also the country’s “advanced productive forces.”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
