This September, netizens exposed a lawyer involved in cat abuse. According to investigations, this lawyer killed 4,000 cats in just three years, averaging 3 to 4 cats abused per day! Moreover, the methods of abuse are extremely brutal and shocking, with items like a dedicated meat grinder used at home for torturing cats. Beneath the appearance of a refined lawyer with a mouthful of “justice” and “ethics,” lies an extremely dark, cruel, and vicious inner world of the bourgeoisie. Even more infuriating is that this lawyer’s abuse of cats is not just to satisfy his own desire to harm humans; some people found that he used the ID “Cat Traditional Chinese Medicine” to sell over 300 videos of cat abuse on platforms like Telegram (Telegram) abroad, and even provide customized videos based on clients’ “hobbies.” Some members of the public have organized themselves to confront this lawyer and demand an explanation, while his parents are very arrogant—his father beat the volunteers who went to confront him, and his mother helped hide the tools used for abuse. Currently, due to the lack of national laws specifically targeting animal abuse—either criminal or administrative—the official authorities have taken no action against this lawyer. The only punishment was the law firm terminating his employment (which is more of a severance than a punishment).
Such incidents of cat abuse are not the first in recent years. By searching with the keyword “cat abuse,” countless cases can be found, such as the 2020 case of a student at Shandong University of Technology who produced and sold videos of cat abuse; the 2023 case of Bilibili UP host “Jack Spicy Strips” producing and selling such videos; and even without specialized platforms, many video bloggers who derive pleasure from animal cruelty can be found. These individuals produce such “spiritual opium” to satisfy fascist ideas—yet unable to directly harm humans, they simulate human abuse by torturing animals—mainly small bourgeois right-wingers and capitalists. Every exposure of such incidents once again brings the industry of animal abuse and video production to the public eye, clearly revealing the existence of a group of people constantly seeking to harm others. But what has the official authorities done in response? In this incident, the lawyer’s family’s assault resulted in volunteers needing three stitches, yet the authorities did nothing (which obviously involves criminal liability, but the authorities have not even imposed administrative penalties), showing a protective attitude toward the lawyer. In past incidents, due to the escalation of events and public pressure, authorities have only made trivial punishments, such as expelling the cat abuser from school in the Shandong incident or merely administratively detaining the abuser in the “Jack Spicy Strips” case. To further impact the industry of animal abuse and related video production and sales would face heavy resistance; even the superficial legislation proposed by NPC deputies has struggled to move forward. Since the first proposal to establish a “Crime of Animal Abuse” in 2005, and the joint proposal by 31 NPC deputies in 2025, the authorities repeatedly refuse to advance relevant legislation citing “difficult to define.”
The reluctance of the authorities even to make superficial reforms fully demonstrates that the ruling class is aligned with the abusers. To analyze this further, one must examine the social nature of the ruling class. Such analysis reveals that the ruling society continuously produces such sadists. The capitalism of the ruling class directly stems from the capitalist restoration of socialism. On one hand, to deceive awakening masses and promote regression, they operate under the guise of Marxism and socialism but actually pursue capitalism, which characterizes their dual-faced nature; on the other hand, because they seek to possess means of production they have never truly owned, they exhibit the traits of nouveau riche. Therefore, they cannot establish their rule on formal democracy but must use state violence to implement reactionary policies of restoration. As Mao Zedong taught us, “When revisionism comes to power, it is the bourgeoisie coming to power,” and it is “Fascist-style dictatorship like that of Hitler.” From the persecutions during the “Anti-Rightist Movement,” the “June Fourth Incident” in 1989, the ruthless suppression of mass movements at the end of the last century, to recent police violence in Pucheng and Jiangyou, it is clear that the ruling class’s power is built upon slaughter and repression of the masses. This fascist dictatorship over the masses inevitably influences social consciousness, producing art and literature with fascist ideas. “The Chinese reactionary government is also very cunning in using ideology as a soft sword, besides manipulating Confucianism and otaku culture to control the masses, it also deliberately cultivates a group of ‘official writers’ to promote bourgeois fascist philosophy and political ideas that favor fascist rule” (Fenghuo Flame “China’s Future Revolutionary Path”). The petty bourgeoisie, due to economic instability, lacks ideological independence and is easily influenced by bourgeois fascist ideas, especially the right-wing petty bourgeoisie, which has strong ambitions for class mobility and personal wealth. This inevitably produces extreme, brutal, and perverted spiritual opium to satisfy their desires to exploit and enslave others. Not only is this impossible for the ruling class to prohibit, but they also welcome and support it. As a result, the related cat abuse industry has not only gone unpunished but has become increasingly perverse, producing individuals with extreme and heinous methods of abuse and large quantities of abuse. Besides the social background, the peculiarity of this incident is that the abuser is a lawyer, which leads many media to evaluate the case solely from personal morality, framing it as a moral failure. We must point out that morality is class-based. The lawyer involved is an intellectual property lawyer, and naturally, in the process of protecting capitalists’ private property rights and using lawsuits to seize other entrepreneurs’ assets, he develops a world view that is profit-oriented, selfish, and devoid of concern for others—an asset-based morality. It can be said that this incident not only does not violate so-called morality but actually exemplifies bourgeois morality.
The emergence of such barbaric and vicious abusers does not demonstrate the strength of capitalism in the ruling class but rather “should be seen as a sign of the bourgeoisie’s weakness,” and “a manifestation of the need to adopt terror management methods internally” (Stalin, “Report on the Work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the 17th Congress”). The appearance of such individuals only indicates that the society of the ruling class has reached an extreme darkness. “Darkness is the deepest light, chaos is the greatest order, that is the way of heaven” (Hong Xiuquan, “The Original Way and the Wake-up of the World”). Things are always opposite and interconnected. Corresponding to these dark, cruel, and vicious fascists are those warm-hearted, kind-hearted masses. They always actively participate in fighting against social injustice whenever they see unfairness, just like in the Pucheng and Jiangyou incidents, where they courageously stand up and fight against the reactionary police and military forces of the ruling class, determined to seek justice and righteousness. The appearance of such fascists not only does not diminish their passionate pursuit of truth for national salvation and people’s well-being but also inspires them to denounce the darkness of society and seek the truth to explain and change the social reality. In this process, they are likely to walk the path of Marxist social liberation, ultimately forming a revolutionary tide sweeping across the entire land of China.
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