Recently, the topic of “new type PUA in the workplace” has sparked heated discussion. Morning reading check-ins, closed-door training, mandatory gratitude… Across the country, employees earning only about 3,000 yuan are suffering through high-pressure training hosted by Shenghe School. As the economic crisis in Zhongxiu continues, many small and medium-sized enterprises with weaker economic strength are struggling to withstand the blow, with some even going bankrupt. In this context, a set of so-called “management philosophies” fabricated by Japan’s monopolistic bourgeoisie, Inamori Kazuo, has become popular, and Shenghe School founded by Inamori Kazuo is growing increasingly strong. Over the past five years, the number of students at Chinese Shenghe School has surged from over 7,000 capitalists to 35,000, with branches in more than 30 regions and 127 cities. Besides these capitalists exchanging reactionary exploitative ideas among themselves, Shenghe School’s training business for employees has become extremely frenzied.
Feng Juan, Liu Pei, and Zhang Guo are brain workers deeply harmed by this reactionary training system. In the fall of 2024, Feng Juan’s company’s capitalists became members of Shenghe School. They learned reactionary doctrines from Inamori Kazuo, forcing employees to recite every morning Inamori’s “Six Principles for Excellence” and Confucian classics like “The Great Learning,” and after work, they must check in their reading notes on a mini-program. Weekly sharing sessions are held without fail, and she also participates irregularly in closed training sessions at Shenghe School. Every morning at 9 a.m., Feng Juan enters the company and the first thing she does is stand in two rows with dozens of colleagues in the conference room for morning reading. After each sentence, they clap their thighs to keep rhythm for slogans like “Put in effort no less than anyone else! Be humble, not proud! Reflect every day! Live with gratitude!” These slogans are nothing but reactionary sermons urging employees to think for capitalists and to help increase exploitation rates. Liu Pei, an employee at another company, experiences the same changes—being forced to shout slogans via Tencent Meeting every day, even enduring three-day-two-night closed training sessions. At 5:30 a.m., nearly 300 people squeeze into a conference hall at a five-star hotel in Hangzhou, phones confiscated, sitting in circles on the ground. They recite “The Great Learning” fifty times, read the outline of “Six Principles for Excellence” fifty times, and Liu Pei’s throat nearly inflames from shouting, with the reading voices echoing loudly, causing her to tinnitus. They persist until 6:30 a.m. before having breakfast. After a capitalist at another company repeatedly emphasizes “putting in effort no less than anyone else,” Zhang Guo’s work list keeps growing. She was originally just a customer service representative but now helps operate internet accounts, shoot videos, and her work becomes customer service + new media operations + editing + filming + scripting + clerical work. Her KPI assessments have become more detailed—for example, replying to Wangwang within 20 seconds, reviewing 40 videos, maintaining 15 seconds of engagement on 15 videos, getting 20 likes on TikTok videos, gaining 1,200 followers, posting 90 Moments in a month, and increasing private domain followers to 20. Her monthly salary remains around 3,000 yuan. Zhang Guo is dissatisfied and fights back against capitalists, asking her boss for a raise. Seeing employees already subjected to slave-like education still disobedient, the capitalist arrogantly says, “Now if everything requires extra pay, then I think this philosophy (referring to Inamori’s books) is a waste,” and “Don’t always talk about money,” which makes Zhang Guo angrily resign.
Behind the suffering of employees under Shenghe School’s training is a reverence for Inamori Kazuo’s exploitative philosophy among capitalists. A business capitalist engaged in cross-border e-commerce has arranged for half of his employees to attend closed training on “Six Principles for Excellence” since 2020. Another capitalist reads Inamori Kazuo’s works for half an hour every weekday for five years and shares insights in a learning group WeChat. Shanghai businessman Zhu, for example, became an active “counselor” for Shenghe School’s three-year program, spending two hours every morning studying Inamori’s books and two hours at night commenting on students’ reflections. Their admiration for Shenghe School is rooted in “forcing employees to unify their thoughts” and “making employees work together,” turning workers into obedient wage slaves even with low wages and long overtime, with malicious intent.
Under the struggle of brain workers, bourgeois media have had to admit that these evil Chinese capitalists are “PUA-ing” their employees, but this is only a minor criticism. They claim that Inamori Kazuo’s management philosophy was originally “good,” but has been corrupted by some Chinese “business owners.” They argue that Inamori Kazuo advocated “putting employees first” and “pursuing material and spiritual happiness for all employees.” But how could Inamori Kazuo, a monopolistic bourgeois who enjoyed wealth and privilege in life, have such good intentions? A closer look at his so-called “Management Twelve Rules” reveals they are just a version of Taylorism. Let’s examine his “Twelve Management Principles.” Despite his hypocritical claims of aiming for “the happiness of all employees physically and spiritually, and contributing to social progress,” his shameful exploitation of workers cannot be hidden. He states that employees need to “set specific goals,” understand their daily tasks, and “put in effort no less than anyone else” within limited working hours to extract more profit for capitalists. He also arrogantly advocates “maximizing sales and minimizing costs,” creating a so-called “Amiba” system, dividing the company into over 1,000 small groups called “Amibas,” each consisting of a few or dozens of employees, aiming to “calculate the operating indicator” by subtracting all monthly expenses from each group’s monthly sales, then dividing the remaining amount by total monthly working hours. In Inamori’s words, this is the “hourly accounting system.” In other words, Inamori Kazuo crazily seeks to calculate the residual value of each “Amiba” group and department per unit time. He also subdivides expenses on the hourly accounting sheet, even repeatedly saving on electricity bills. He claims that “order doubling, personnel and equipment doubling” is dangerous, and in the case of increased orders, he seeks ways to lower personnel growth, forcing workers to do more within the same time, thus exploiting absolute surplus value.
Post-00s brain worker Zhang Guo had never heard of Inamori Kazuo until one day she saw his books displayed prominently at a Xinhua Bookstore in Zhongxiu. She was surprised and sarcastic: “The things I’ve been reporting and fighting against are actually legal?” Zhongxiu is a bourgeois state, and the law serves to protect the interests of a small handful of capitalists. Inamori Kazuo’s “management philosophy” is entirely designed to squeeze more profit from employees, perfectly fitting this country’s “law.” Let’s throw Inamori’s “management philosophy” back into the trash heap. Only by tearing apart Zhongxiu’s socialist disguise and overthrowing this capitalist system that pretends to be socialist but is actually exploiting under the red flag can workers reclaim their status as masters of society, free from Shenghe School’s demonic training and the exploitation of the new Taylorism devised by the bourgeoisie. The road ahead remains tortuous, but under the sharpening class contradictions, the tide of workers awakening and participating in socialist revolution is unstoppable.
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