According to multiple news reports, on November 4, 2025, a delivery worker was beaten by two dog station managers after being deducted 80% of his wages and during the wage dispute. Ultimately, to resist oppression, he stabbed the two dog station managers to the ground. After the incident, it quickly spread across the internet. It can be seen that public opinion and responses to this matter are clearly divided along class lines: the most reactionary bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie attempts to conceal the truth of the incident, deleting numerous news reports and even trying to justify the delivery worker carrying a knife as premeditated. On the other side, the vast Chinese people, petty bourgeoisie and proletariat, have been voicing support for the delivery worker online, demanding leniency, and criticizing their own oppression at work in comments on major video sites. As Marxists, we must stand with the oppressed, support all oppressed fighters against their oppressors, and oppose exploitation and theft by the exploiters. Therefore, analyzing this incident, clarifying its causes and consequences, thoroughly refuting the bourgeois fallacies, and firmly supporting all oppressed people is our Marxist duty.
First, let’s examine how this incident actually happened. According to online reports, the delivery worker submitted his resignation a month ago, but during the resignation process, the dog station managers deducted a full 80% of his wages. What was originally 5 yuan per order was reduced to just 1 yuan. When the worker confronted the managers, they beat and cursed him. The blue-clad manager choked the delivery worker’s throat, while the white-clad one beat him. In this situation, to resist oppression, the worker drew a small knife, stabbing the white-clad person first, then injuring the blue-clad one. Soon after, police dogs arrived quickly, and without understanding the situation, they immediately restrained the delivery worker. Photos taken at the scene show that the white-clad manager fell to the ground immediately, while the blue-clad manager was injured and carried away. From the above account, it’s clear that whether it was verbal abuse, beating, or wage deduction, these were actions initiated by the two dog station managers. As the oppressed, the delivery worker, in the face of life-threatening violence, fought back by stabbing the managers. His actions are entirely justified self-defense; the managers are the ones who provoked the incident. It is deserved that one was injured and the other was critically wounded. However, the bourgeoisie, as the spokesperson for the exploitative class, distorts facts, confuses right and wrong, slanders the delivery worker, and whitewashes the managers. It is crucial to counter each of their fallacies.
In the incident report, the bourgeoisie began their typical distortion of facts. First, they falsely claimed that the incident was merely a workplace dispute between colleagues, ignoring the relationship of oppressor and oppressed between the managers and the delivery worker, and describing the managers’ oppressive behavior as a simple work conflict, disregarding the class nature of their actions. They also downplayed the managers’ prior actions before being stabbed. Their purpose is clear: to cover up the managers’ initial oppression and exploitation of the worker, and to isolate the worker’s stabbing as an isolated incident, ignoring the cause and effect, and blaming the worker alone. Furthermore, to smear the delivery worker, they brought up the fact that he carried a knife, claiming it was premeditated, as if oppressed people carrying weapons to threaten exploiters is always premeditated murder. They promote the idea that workers must obey the exploiters and should not rebel. From an empirical perspective, attacking irrelevant details with distortion is a common tactic of the bourgeoisie. Previously, oppressed individuals who were stabbed to death by campus bullies for carrying a knife received sentences of ten or twenty years. In the case of the Wuhan University library molestation incident, the bourgeoisie fabricated accusations of academic fraud against the victim, as if her academic misconduct could justify her assault, and even used this to counterattack her. No matter from which angle one examines, the bourgeoisie’s slander is baseless. We do not deny that the delivery worker carrying a knife was intentional; of course, we acknowledge that this act of the worker resisting class oppression is entirely justified and legitimate. To use an analogy, in socialist revolution, the proletariat must also implement Red Terror and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Is this a crime? The proletariat’s dictatorship over the bourgeoisie, consolidating socialist power, and punishing those who have murdered many proletarians and seek counter-revolution is entirely justified. The same logic applies to the delivery worker. As the oppressed, facing brutal exploitation and oppression by the bourgeoisie and its agents, working daily under pressure from merchants, customers, and delivery companies—being arbitrarily fired, deducted wages, and risking violence—carrying a knife is extremely necessary and justified. In this incident, the managers indeed beat and insult the worker first, so if the worker intentionally stabbed them, it is only natural. Violence is not super-class; there can be intentional violence from the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, and vice versa. But bourgeoisie like the bourgeoisie will also murder the proletariat. At this point, the bourgeoisie uses a disgusting and reactionary standard: they claim that the intentional murder by the bourgeoisie is unintentional, and that such acts are only to prevent violence, but in reality, they only protect the bourgeoisie’s violence and suppress the oppressed’s resistance. Under bourgeois fascist rule, as long as one is a rich second-generation, a bureaucrat, or a capitalist, even deliberate reckless driving that kills people, or rape and murder of three women, or a parent killing a child, or capitalists exploiting workers to death, can be claimed as unintentional. But if the oppressed resist, they face severe punishment. This logic is a blatant use of bourgeois humanitarianism as a pretext for fascist dictatorship, twisting the cause and effect, and labeling all resistance by the proletariat as murder, portraying capitalists as victims—an outright robber’s logic. Yet, when it comes to their own bourgeoisie, they claim such acts are unintentional. Their falsehoods in absolving the bourgeoisie’s persecution of the proletariat and condemning proletarian resistance are obvious.
On the other hand, as initially stated, the vast Chinese people have been supporting the delivery worker online, breaking through bourgeois censorship, telling the truth about the incident in comment sections of major websites, condemning their own oppression, and demanding leniency for the worker. The Chinese people have always stood with the oppressed, refusing to allow the bourgeoisie to distort facts, shield oppressors, or slander the oppressed. Revolution is not a crime; rebellion is justified; rebellion is an excellent tradition of the Chinese nation. In today’s dark bourgeois society, besides this incident, everywhere you see protests by the Chinese masses against bourgeois oppression, supporting the oppressed. The class struggle in China has reached a critical point, and the bourgeoisie is forced to resort to fascist dictatorship to violently suppress the people and maintain its rule. Although some mass movements, such as protests by Hainan residents against the Hainan Seaweed Group’s arbitrary land clearing, and previous incidents in Jiangyou and Pucheng, have failed and been suppressed, “metabolism is an unstoppable universal law of the universe.” As a decadent, backward, reactionary regime, bourgeois China is inevitably destined to be replaced by the emerging proletarian revolution. This is the law of history. Mao Zedong taught us, “Struggle, failure, struggle again, failure again, struggle until victory—that is the logic of the people, and they will never violate this logic.” Today’s spontaneous mass movements and incidents like the delivery worker’s resistance, despite brutal suppression, show that the Chinese people’s struggle never stops. More and more people are awakening to the true face of bourgeoisie and joining the new struggles. As revolutionaries, we must also persist in struggle, shoulder our historical responsibilities, and in the future, bourgeois China will be completely overthrown in a proletarian revolution and thrown into the dustbin of history!
