I’ve spoken with Chinese people online that backed all of this up, in detail. 6-12s were outlawed by China that is, but they still make them work them, they just don’t pay the extra hours.

The part about residency in the cities, about lack of protections, about pollution, all true. As is the forcing of tens of millions off of their family farms to force them into the industrial meat grinder. The great leap forward is well documented, as is their transformation, same as with all nations in the north, of a half or more of the population being on smaller farms to only a handful of a percent in the span of industrialization.

It’s not like any of this is unique to China, this has happened in about every country that industrialized. It is only after a labour movement took hold that any of the working peoples got anything other than long hours for starvation wage pay, that is the natural state of Capitalism. Until labor can achieve some power their workers will continue to be exploited the maximum amount possible.

You can see what China is doing, getting all of our tech and getting their factories built for them by exploiting western greed, but they are sacrificing generations of their people to misery to get there, and irrevocably poisoning a lot of watersheds/ground. None of this is particularly groundbreaking, this is the background on the country, it’s rather common knowledge. Ideologues may be misplaced in their sentiments trying to pretend it’s all swell there, but their energy would be better spent finding ways to organize China’s workforce, to improve their lot. Because it improves the country’s lot as well. More money in the hands of workers means more goods bought, which is more factory orders, it’s a reinforcing cycle.

Chiseling workers out of a dignified life makes everyone poorer in the long run, and China already has wall street where it wants them, they don’t need more investment/factories. It’s time to squeeze Wall Street, for the Workers. It’s time to make good on the Promises of Socialism.