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| Chinese Party cells spread into corporate world |
| 2007-07-18 |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #3 If they could just figure out that it doesn't matter if you have two political parties. The public is only interested in what they want, they are fairly indifferent to most of what any government has to do. So setting two parties up in competition with each other keeps government fresh with more innovation. The bosses of neither party suffer too greatly for being out of power for a while. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-07-18 19:16 |
| #2 Party membership isn't that great, unless you work for the government. They don't just accept anyone, and in college it's a lot of extra work for not much reward. It's a lifelong ambition of mine to seduce a real commie...I've come close a few times, but never really closed the deal. |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-07-18 05:23 |
| #1 Private sector workers find few ideological inconveniences in party membership. The CCP has dropped almost all aspects of communism though it retains an affection for Marxist rhetoric and is committed to its monopoly on political power. Besides the fact that the above paragraph literally drips with cognitive dissonance, it also reveals the Politburo's naked lust for total control. Communism? Who gives a damn, just so long as we run the show? Marxism? Pay it lip service but keep the elite firmly in place. After the shock of seeing the Berlin Wall fall in my own lifetime, I'm rather well-prepared to see China's masses string up their Mandarins from whatever lamp posts they can find. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-18 04:19 |