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Reading Xi's history, it's kind of wild he made it to President of China. (hexbear.net)
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  • Family house robbed by student militants during the Cultural Revolution
  • Mother forced to denounce father as an enemy of the revolution in front of a crowd
  • Father imprisoned
  • Arrested and sent to a labor camp for deserting the post he was assigned as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement
  • Rejected for Party membership 10 times

To me it also demonstrates a big difference between capitalism and socialism. Compare Xi's post-prison trajectory to capitalist countries, where a criminal record basically makes you a part of a lifelong unemployable underclass (unless you're a millionaire, of course).

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[โ€“] JustSo@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah what I've read so far here and there is really interesting.

I had a similar thought when I read about his father being imprisoned and then after his release being busted down to the lowly station of... factory manager. Still a major fall from grace, but again purged from the party and imprisoned. But not ruined. Not destroyed. (not that Xi's father or the family would agree with this I think? heh)

Compared to what we consider normal/acceptable (and compared to the lies about China) it seems almost utopian.

[โ€“] huf@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

tracks with how the two branches of my ancestors were treated:

  • the capitalists, to my jewish grandmother from a poor background: not allowed to go to university, beaten up by fascist thugs in the street leading to major medical complications, being hunted by nazis and nazi collaborators, having to live under a false identity to survive. her parents got holocausted.
  • the communists, to my landowning nobility great-grandfather, an absolute class enemy of theirs: he eventually got put in charge of a huge state-run agricultural concern. got to use his university education (agrarian engineer). retained 2 houses, got a nice pension, lived to a peaceful old age. yeah yeah they took his land. compare this with the previous.