The So-called "Social Equality" of Communism
Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, China, November 10th, 2013
Salaroche

“It’s for the good of the country”, the government tells the farmers as they’re kicked out of their ancestral lands and are forced to move into newly-built ghettos where poorly-built buildings and unemployment await them. It all sounds like a less cruel modified version of the late 1950’s merciless Great Leap Forward, but very cruel nonetheless. 

Government propaganda pervades the news in this country, but the great majority of people are so clueless that they have no other choice but to swallow it anyway.  

Then there’s that prevailing practical philosophy well-ingrained in most Chinese people’s minds: “Good guys die young”, which entails the not-too-veiled absence of empathy towards their fellow beings. Get whatever you can at the expense of whoever you can, perhaps excepting your nearest family. That seems to be the core philosophy in this land. 

There are simply too many people in this country to share in the few resources left to them after the government’s pillaging and plundering of the country’s human and natural wealth. 

Communism? No such thing in this land. Shameless opportunism; that’s the name of the game. Take it or leave it. Unfortunately, the great majority of Chinese only have the option to take it, as they’re not even allowed to leave it. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/world/asia/new-china-cities-shoddy-homes-broken-hope.html?pagewanted=1&hp

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