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.
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.