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A top economist has joined the growing list of China's elite to have disappeared from public life after criticizing Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Zhu Hengpeng served as deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for around a decade.

CASS is a state research think tank that reports directly to China's cabinet. Chen Daoyin, a former associate professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, described it as a "body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership."

According to the Journal, the 55-year-old disappeared shortly after remarking on China's sluggish economy and criticizing Xi's leadership in a private group on WeChat.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Directly from The Communist Manifesto:

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm

[-] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Read a bit ahead if you may:

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Okay? That doesn't change the summary about private property, which is a thing in China. It wasn't under Mao, it is now.

[-] Fox@pawb.social -1 points 1 month ago

And then the adherents fought over the means and meaning, and everybody else threw their hands up

[-] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tbh Marx is intentionally questioning definitions and such so it makes sense, simplifying it down to terms we use isn't very productive in that sense, because what he argues for is the abolishing of "private property" as we know it, but without removing the fruits of labour from its people, so if you and your mates worked for your house you can have it, until the moment you start making a business out of it then it's less ok.

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