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Jack Ma, male, Han Chinese, member of the Communist Party of China, born September 1964 in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, is the chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group (China) Co., Ltd.
...He has been awarded the title of "Outstanding Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Zhejiang Province."
http://cpc.people.com.cn/n1/2018/1126/c419242-30420351.html
Comrade, what kind of investigations are there? Don't you know how the oligarchs make their billions?
They make their money by oppressing the proletariat.
For example, he forces his workers to work overtime for the same wages. He doesn't pay compensation for overtime. He's not ashamed of it.
Look on YouTube to see the conditions the workers at his factories live in.
I'm not talking about all of China now; I'm talking specifically about the oligarch Jack Ma, who is a member of the CPC and who received an award "for outstanding services in building socialism."
Comrade, please don't be offended by me; I'm dealing exclusively with facts, not speculation.
Yes, oligarchs are all parasites—you're right.
Their money is money stolen from the people. And it doesn't really matter whether they're in the Communist Party or not, because they're parasites a priori!
It's encouraging that work is actually being done in China. This gives hope for the best....
But until the oligarchs are exterminated as a class in China, they will continue to strangle the people!
oligarch /ˈɒlɪɡɑːk/ An oligarch is a very wealthy and powerful individual who uses their vast financial and business resources to directly influence a country's government and political landscape. The word stems from the Greek term oligarchia, which translates to "rule by the few".
They have no power they are not oligarchs. There are no oligarchs in China only a bourgeois element that is shrinking year on year that holds no real power.
Yes, I agree with you about the term "oligarch." I never mentioned Ma's influence on the state, though; I talked about the workers and how Ma made his billions.
And I don't know about China, but in the USSR, all party workers were a priori involved in government activities.
I suppose China also has "party meetings" at various levels, where party workers make key decisions by voting. At these meetings, such a distinguished and distinguished figure surely enjoys considerable authority. Or am I mistaken?
Yeah, I've heard about that, but right now China is second in terms of billionaires after the US.
Yes
Yes because China has a very large population and thus all absolute numbers not adjusting for this will be extremely large and out of step with reality. In reality the rate of billionaires in China is 0.288 (Between India and Kazakhstan while being far less poor and far more advanced) where as it is 2.42 in the US and 0.821 in Russia for example.
Yes, I agree with you. But that doesn't change the essence of Ma and the others.
It does. Ma and other capitalists having no political power is absolutely a change in essence of their position