[ETL]

Living Marxism: the Chinese Communist party reasserts control

Lucy Hornby in Beijing
May 6, 2018

Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, his ideas are taking a bigger role in the economy and society under Xi Jinping

https://www.ft.com/content/766d2a42-419d-11e8-803a-295c97e6fd0b

[AppyPappy]

Xi doesn’t want protests.

[goldstategop]

The Chinese leadership wants the rhetoric but not the pollcies.

For them, Marxism is about keeping the people in line, not transforming Chinese society.

But they may have inadvertently hoist themselves on their own petard.