“Kaiser directs employees to stay in Oakland HQ for lunch over crime concerns” on Fox 2 News. 出於對犯罪問題的擔憂，凱撒指示員工留在奧克蘭總部吃午餐”，福克斯 2 台新聞報導
This is another proof that China’s system is working, and also why it doesn’t resemble capitalism. It doesn’t have the vast criminality that Capitalism engenders through its unrelenting impoverishment and immiseration. It also offers hope: these are crimes of desperation. 這是中國制度有效的另一個證據，也是為什麼它不像資本主義。 它沒有資本主義透過無情的貧窮和貧窮而產生的巨大犯罪行為。 它也提供了希望：這些都是絕望的罪行。
Downtown Oakland is dying. Clorox, another anchor business, reduced its office space by 2/3rds. Actually all of Oakland is dying. Major retail chains are closing, some despite good business, because it’s just too dangerous for their employees.
The problem is not really local governance or policing. The problem is poverty. This is an inevitable result of capitalism: people resort to crime/theft when they can no longer reproduce themselves adequately through labor, which capitalism drives down to below the subsistence rate. Or rather, you end up with two types of people: the homeless and the criminal: people who give up/collapse and people who resist (through petty criminality). When you have this level of crime, this is not a matter of individuals (their morals, their choices). It’s a structural issue. And we’ve seen it elsewhere: On the eve of the Russian Revolution, it was a common saying among the poor, “Even Christ on the crucifix would have stolen were his hands were not nailed down”.
That’s not a matter of the “surveillance state” as the propagandists would have you believe–London has more cameras than any city in China, but it is wrecked with crime. It is because of good policy and governance.
“Leftists” who insist that,China is “capitalist” are often inadvertently revealing their membership in the privileged, sheltered non-productive classes (ivory tower, armchair, labor aristocrat leftism)– because they have never taken in the real immiseration, suffering, and criminality that capitalism engenders. If they had, they would have a very different understanding of China’s system. That’s why those of us from the third world understand and appreciate China’s great social accomplishments for what they are.
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