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The World Socialist Web Site supports the Hong Kong protestors seeing in them the fight against global capitalism. But the leaders of the demonstration come from the libertarian right and their backers are rich pro-US neoliberals, so I don't think this demonstration will spread much in the way of socialism. Although the WSWS are right about exploitation in China. The CCP, its name notwithstanding, has presided over decades of capitalist exploitation at the expense of the working class since it initiated the processes of capitalist restoration in 1978. It defends the same economic system that has enriched a small layer of Hong Kong elites, a system which is also defended by all sections of the city’s ruling elites including those represented by the official opposition—the so-called
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The World Socialist Web Site supports the Hong Kong protestors seeing in them the fight against global capitalism. But the leaders of the demonstration come from the libertarian right and their backers are rich pro-US neoliberals, so I don't think this demonstration will spread much in the way of socialism. Although the WSWS are right about exploitation in China. The CCP, its name notwithstanding, has presided over decades of capitalist exploitation at the expense of the working class since it initiated the processes of capitalist restoration in 1978. It defends the same economic system that has enriched a small layer of Hong Kong elites, a system which is also defended by all sections of the city’s ruling elites including those represented by the official opposition—the so-called
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The World Socialist Web Site supports the Hong Kong protestors seeing in them the fight against global capitalism. But the leaders of the demonstration come from the libertarian right and their backers are rich pro-US neoliberals, so I don't think this demonstration will spread much in the way of socialism. Although the WSWS are right about exploitation in China.
The CCP, its name notwithstanding, has presided over decades of capitalist exploitation at the expense of the working class since it initiated the processes of capitalist restoration in 1978. It defends the same economic system that has enriched a small layer of Hong Kong elites, a system which is also defended by all sections of the city’s ruling elites including those represented by the official opposition—the so-called pan-democrat grouping in the Legislative Council.
This fight is an international one as workers come into conflict with the bourgeoisie around the globe. Autoworkers in the US recently voted overwhelming to take strike action, opposing both the auto companies and the corrupt United Auto Workers union. Hong Kong workers and youth should reach out to their class brothers and sisters in the US, as well as workers in the “yellow vest” movement in France, and those engaged in struggles elsewhere around the world.