A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.
We (the west) often look at the chinese with some amount of arrogance about them being “peasants”.
Truth is, Winnie Pooh has to take some care, because they will fuck things up if their situation gets worse instead of better.
I mean, people who think the Chinese people are just ‘peasants’ tend to be pretty goddamn ignorant.
Systems are difficult to oppose in every society. We’re all just trying to get by.
But that was absolutely the same for peasants? Which then would make it accurate again to call them oppressed peasants?
That’s not the defining characterisric for peasants, you pawn :p
“Peasant” has much more wide-reaching connotations than just powerlessness.
Nothing wrong with being a peasant, in this context: History is full of peasant revolts. People in the European middle ages were perfectly aware of how the system was stacked against them. Arguably, more than they’re now.
Peasants? In one of the top capitalist countries?? Haha, good one… They certainly have farms, but that’s just one end of the production …