Jack Ma, China's richest man, is a Communist Party member (Surprise, surprise)

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[originalbuckeye]

And Kirsten Sinema, before becoming a Rep in the House 1n 2012, was quite comfortable telling people that she was a Communist, too. They are all around and are just now ‘coming out’ for all to see.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

“and absorbs them into the fold.”

Just like the Borg.

5.56mm

[Uncle Miltie]

So is Jeff Bezos.

[butlerweave]

Communist Party runs everything and if you’re not a member gets stuffed ,LOL

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say horse that has two riders gets whipped twice.

[Chinese word for horse is “ma”.]

[Wayne07]

"I didn’t think Ma would have a choice"

^^ This. Ma was forced to retires as chairman of Alibaba by Beijing two months ago. Now he emerges as a member of the party. He is engaging in self preservation.

[TexasM1A]

Which is why he IS the richest man in China.

[Harpotoo]

No surprise. How do you think he gets to KEEP his $ (for now)

[The Great RJ]

Hello..China is still a staunchly Communist country and the only people getting ahead are the party elites. There are no free elections in China, the government owns the means of production and centrally plans the economy and China is a totalitarian state. That pretty much says Communism to me.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

How can communism have allowed such people to accumulate such great wealth?

The mistake you're making is in believing that the Chinese Communist Party has had any ideological relationship with Marxist economic theory since about the death the Mao.

[RoosterRedux]

I don't think Ma joined the Party. I think the Party made Ma.

It's a front so that Chinese Communism can appear to be modern and partly capitalist.

Communism and capitalism cannot co-exist in the same country.

[amnestynone]

This is a communist party in name only. There are more communists in this country than there are in “red” China.

[bert]

Me is a Chicap

His company has the largest initial public offering in the history of the New York stock exchange

[YogicCowboy]

Commies love money more than Cappies.

[fieldmarshaldj]

...a dead Demonrat.

[seanmerc]

Does this really surprise anyone? There’s no way the ChiComs would allow him to get where he is without his being a Communist.

[seanmerc]

Does this really surprise anyone? There’s no way the ChiComs would allow him to get where he is without his being a Communist.

[RoosterRedux]

I have heard that he is actually a "made man"...that is, made by the ChiComs to look successful by reverse engineering Amazon.