Chinese economist Zhu Hengpeng disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping, the WSJ reported. He reportedly made comments on China's sluggish economy.

A top economist has joined the growing list of China’s elite to have disappeared from public life after criticizing Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Zhu Hengpeng served as deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for around a decade.

CASS is a state research think tank that reports directly to China’s cabinet. Chen Daoyin, a former associate professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, described it as a “body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership.”

According to the Journal, the 55-year-old disappeared shortly after remarking on China’s sluggish economy and criticizing Xi’s leadership in a private group on WeChat.

  • JustARaccoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 个月前

    Read a bit ahead if you may:

    Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      65·
      2 个月前

      Okay? That doesn’t change the summary about private property, which is a thing in China. It wasn’t under Mao, it is now.

    • Fox@pawb.socialEnglish
      23·
      2 个月前

      And then the adherents fought over the means and meaning, and everybody else threw their hands up

      • JustARaccoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 个月前

        Tbh Marx is intentionally questioning definitions and such so it makes sense, simplifying it down to terms we use isn’t very productive in that sense, because what he argues for is the abolishing of “private property” as we know it, but without removing the fruits of labour from its people, so if you and your mates worked for your house you can have it, until the moment you start making a business out of it then it’s less ok.