FBI documents published on the US Department of Justice website show that billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein funded the group Friends of Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) and settlement-building organisation the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
Analysis of income and transfers to non-charitable exempt organisations, released by the FBI, shows that the convicted sex offender financed the FIDF, which “raises funds for active duty Israel Defence Forces soldiers and veterans”.
Wow, what a load of made-up shit!
996 (the 12 h workday 6 days a week), while a stark reality, is only commonplace in the tech sector among young professionals, and it’s actually illegal, just rarely reported and prosecuted.
People being “forced off family farms” is directly bullshit, there were never “family farms” in China, it was an empire with brutal landlords starving the peasants with a life expectancy of less than 30 years of age before Maoism, and by the time Mao died life expectancy had doubled to almost 60 years of age. Land was collectivized and belonged to the state and local communities afterwards. People moving to cities is mostly a consequence of better (while still not good) living conditions in China in early cities. That strategy turned out wonderfully too: 800 million Chinese people have been uplifted from poverty over the past 40 years in what’s become the greatest poverty alleviation exercise in human history, saving hundreds of millions of lives in the process.
Companies in China don’t “dump their waste in the ditch behind the factory” anymore than in any developed country. Environmental regulations in the 80s were bad because the country was underdeveloped, but in mid 2020s they’re comparable to most western countries, while China is the world pioneer in nuclear and solar energy, producing 95% of all solar photovoltaic modules that are produced on Earth every year, and pioneering also electric car development and high speed rail.
Your concern for western capitalist intellectual property reveals your true ideology: you want western capital to dominate, not progress for humanity. If western companies didn’t want to accept Chinese copyright laws, they could have simply chosen not to move their production to China. Otherwise, get fucked. Great job blaming the evil Chinese communists for the lack of union movement in the west, surely nothing to do with a century of anticommunist propaganda and unionbusting.
I’ve spoken with Chinese people online that backed all of this up, in detail. 6-12s were outlawed by China that is, but they still make them work them, they just don’t pay the extra hours.
The part about residency in the cities, about lack of protections, about pollution, all true. As is the forcing of tens of millions off of their family farms to force them into the industrial meat grinder. The great leap forward is well documented, as is their transformation, same as with all nations in the north, of a half or more of the population being on smaller farms to only a handful of a percent in the span of industrialization.
It’s not like any of this is unique to China, this has happened in about every country that industrialized. It is only after a labour movement took hold that any of the working peoples got anything other than long hours for starvation wage pay, that is the natural state of Capitalism. Until labor can achieve some power their workers will continue to be exploited the maximum amount possible.
You can see what China is doing, getting all of our tech and getting their factories built for them by exploiting western greed, but they are sacrificing generations of their people to misery to get there, and irrevocably poisoning a lot of watersheds/ground. None of this is particularly groundbreaking, this is the background on the country, it’s rather common knowledge. Ideologues may be misplaced in their sentiments trying to pretend it’s all swell there, but their energy would be better spent finding ways to organize China’s workforce, to improve their lot. Because it improves the country’s lot as well. More money in the hands of workers means more goods bought, which is more factory orders, it’s a reinforcing cycle.
Chiseling workers out of a dignified life makes everyone poorer in the long run, and China already has wall street where it wants them, they don’t need more investment/factories. It’s time to squeeze Wall Street, for the Workers. It’s time to make good on the Promises of Socialism.