Since the rebirth of capitalism in China, it has plundered a large amount of wealth created by socialism, and has begun to implement fascist rule on a large scale, brutally exploiting workers and peasants, causing the people to “suffer twofold sins” and “endure twofold hardships.” Not only have they put “electronic shackles” on sanitation workers, but in the name of “reducing costs and increasing efficiency,” they caused the Baogang ball tank explosion… The victims are the hardworking masses, and the suffering is also borne by the hardworking masses, yet capitalists and bureaucrats lie in comfortable apartments, using innocent children’s organs to “extend life,” and travel the world in luxury planes to eat, drink, and be merry! What kind of world is this? It is hell for the hardworking masses! Capitalists, parasitic parasites’ paradise!
Some time ago, I went to a large factory similar to a trust. After working there for a while, I experienced some changes, but I still longed for “good days” and “good life.” So when I heard about the matter of “must resign before X date, no resignation allowed after X date,” my heart was troubled. At that time, due to the intense physical labor, I fell ill. So I quickly resigned. During my time working in the factory, because I had a strong petty-bourgeois tendency, I became fanatical and did not realize that I had made the mistake of “leftist excess,” thinking that “skilled workers are petty bourgeois or bourgeois workers, and both are dependent on capitalists, so they are traitors.” This mistake is similar to Qu Qiubai’s statement in the Land Program: “Transform petty bourgeois into proletariat, then let them revolutionize.” In fact, how can workers survive without skills? Under this mistaken ideological guidance, although I achieved some victories, I also ended up uniting not with genuine workers, but with “temporary workers” with democratic tendencies, which laid the groundwork for subsequent failures.
After resigning, I warned a few coworkers about resigning X number of people. Two of them chose to resign, and another planned to wait a few months. Because we were on the same production line, these people almost formed a “Gang of Four.”
However, the “Gang of Four” did not know each other because they worked on the same line, but because they united during wage disputes.
Later, after I resigned, with the help of union comrades, I realized the importance of “wage demands.” But I was very afraid in my heart, afraid of struggle, thinking “Isn’t it good to sit still?” “Why cause trouble?” So I was helpless and just waited for the capitalist to send the 3,000 yuan salary.
But when I asked about my coworkers’ wages, I was shocked.
One coworker received less than 2,000 yuan, and I was on the same line as them, with similar working hours and intensity, yet there was almost a 1,000 yuan difference. After deducting meal expenses, he only had a few hundred yuan left per month. The other two, after deducting social insurance and other taxes, only had 1,600. “Under the capitalist mode of production, capital cares only about how to make the vast majority of workers sustain themselves with the most necessary things, making their existence extremely impoverished so as to maximize surplus value extraction, while other human happiness and rights are completely ignored by capitalist society.” Earning only a few hundred or just over 1,000 yuan a month—what kind of wages are these? Are these given by humans?
I was furious, so I immediately formed a group. But due to the unwillingness of petty-bourgeois elements within the group to struggle, a defeatist atmosphere gradually arose. Additionally, I myself made the mistake of bureaucratism, and after reclaiming a little, the group silently dissolved. In short, it ended due to my own incomplete proletarianization and a series of mistakes.
The capitalists are very clever in this process. On one hand, they use so-called “labor relations” and “service relations” to divide workers, splitting them into “temporary workers” and “formal workers.” At the same time, they play word games to prevent workers from defending their rights; exploiting internal contradictions among the people, giving small favors, and nurturing a large number of loyal lackeys—“traitors” (工贼). “Traitors are two-legged animals, with souls twisted like spiral drills, brains soaked in water, and spines assembled with jelly and glue. Wherever there is good intention, they grow tumors made of decayed principles… Compared to traitors, Judas Iscariot is a gentleman. At least Judas had the courage to hang himself for betraying his master—traitors have no such courage… Nothing is more vile than traitors.” —Jack London. Now look at their faces:
After that, I went to wash dishes at a chain restaurant. Originally, our shift was from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., but we were always inexplicably told by the capitalist traitor manager to “work only half a day,” which meant the three of us in the back kitchen (a 16-year-old responsible for stir-frying, an older aunt responsible for plating and preparing ingredients, and myself washing dishes—this was our nominal work, but sometimes we also looked out for each other) were scheduled during the busiest hours in the afternoon, when petty-bourgeois and bourgeois workers came with their children to enjoy the food.
Sometimes, during “Valentine’s Day” or “New Year,” it gets very busy. We have two receptionists in the front, one of whom is also 16. When he comes in with a tired face, he loads various small bowls, cups, chopsticks, plates, boxes, round trays, hot pots, large bowls, bamboo trays, spoons, large kitchenware, filters, skimmers, stir-fry spoons… all into the sink at once, and I, along with him, sighs simultaneously. “Are you tired in the front?” “Exhausted.”
Once, to serve a few petty-bourgeois diners, we even waited for them to eat slowly and chat about their business, and only got home at midnight!
But the one suffering the most is the aunt in the back kitchen.
In the past, her earnings were taken by her husband’s family and brothers. After she rebelled, those “relatives” no longer contacted her. During festivals, no one called or greeted her. Her face was pale, her eyes sometimes clouded, muttering something unknowingly, looking dazed and foolish. But because I had little contact with her, it was hard to understand what was really going on inside her. The traitors and another neat, clever waitress in the front often called her “big fool,” “Big Xia, come here,” “Big Hero, what are you doing?” “Big fool, what are you doing?” They would order her from one place to another. When she paused her work, she was scolded for laziness. Whether she worked quickly or helped others, no one was better than her. But traitors, except when eating or drinking, never scolded her, and at other times, they almost never showed her a good face. Once, for some unknown reason, she did something wrong and was scolded by traitors, saying, “You’ve been here so long and still don’t know.” During meetings, she finally couldn’t bear it anymore and retorted loudly. The traitors had no words to say but also didn’t stop scolding her.
Yet, such a person was owed tens of thousands of yuan in wages by the “boss” sitting comfortably! Truly a “negative millionaire”!
This is a cannibalistic society! Xianglin Sao died, but the cannibalistic society did not die! It crawled out from the ground, donned new skins, and continued to eat human flesh and drink human blood. As long as the laboring people resist slightly, it is “disrespectful,” “causing trouble,” “threatening,” “malicious wage demands”… Who is squeezing every penny from the laboring people? Who owes wages to the hardworking masses and refuses to pay? Who insults the laboring people while sucking their labor products? Who!? These parasites, these lackeys! If they do not die, tragedies like Xianglin Sao will keep happening! The suffering of the laboring people will never end!
But in this so-called “socialist” country, what kind of faces do those so-called “labor laws,” “labor bureaus,” “supervisory teams,” and “people’s servants” have?
In the supermarket under “People’s Entrepreneur” Yu Donglai, salesclerks and movers not only bear heavy physical labor but are also bound by cumbersome “rules and regulations,” not only their hands and feet are tied but also their families and children are “jointly punished.” In the past, exploiters whipped laborers with whips, but now, exploiters whip people with rubles! However, strangely, no lawsuit against Pang Donglai has been successful. Why? Just this January 22, 14 migrant workers squeezed into Haidian Court still on the lawsuit road, just to settle wages. But what was the result? “Some people ‘talk like farting,’” no payment. During festivals, our judge grandfather still takes a break! Still on vacation!
Because I had no car on the mountain and couldn’t go to the restaurant, I was directly dismissed. When I returned home, I started a better life, and my thoughts relaxed. Later, after recalling the comrades’ reminders, I realized that temporary workers’ wages are paid immediately upon receipt. I checked the date, five days had passed, and wages still hadn’t been issued. The traitor told me, “If paid immediately, it can only be calculated at 100 yuan a day.” I couldn’t accept it and argued with him. As a result, as shown in the above picture, accusations rained down. Finally, with my firm attitude, the traitor could only say, “In a day or two (it will be settled).”
With the help and encouragement of comrades, I decided to report this to 12333. After waiting a while, a call came, saying it was from a “mediator” from the shopping mall, but the so-called mediation was just repeating the boss’s words: “Wages will be paid on the 15th.” I immediately retorted: First, I was not present at the mediation and had no participation; second, I was not informed beforehand; third, the principles of mediation were not established, and it was not an equal civil dispute (natural persons and legal persons do not have equal legal status). Therefore, this cannot be called “mediation.” I refused the so-called “mediation” result on the spot. The person from the mall didn’t understand the law well either, so he hung up reluctantly.
Then I contacted the “wage arrears clues report,” and found that it was exactly the same as 12333—just two windows, only painted in different colors. As for the so-called leadership message board, if you look carefully at the submitted clauses, it is completely useless because it states “not within its jurisdiction” and will be transferred elsewhere.
Later, I also reported to 12345, but it used “not within this jurisdiction” as an excuse and gave me another district’s labor bureau phone number. That was it. Just for demanding over 400 yuan in wages, I was obstructed at every turn, with the traitors, capitalists, and state machinery using all means to oppose. As Marx said: “Revolution is necessary not only because there is no other way to overthrow the ruling class.” This conclusion was not born out of some idea but from reality, from the cruel and ruthless capitalist society.
I was at a loss because I went out of town and couldn’t manage this matter anymore. Before I could trouble them, the labor inspection team called me.
A impatient woman told me that I was in a “service relationship,” and this matter was not under labor law. I immediately countered: First, working requires clocking in and roll call. Second, I can provide evidence that I was engaged in employment labor. Third, whatever commands they have, we must obey. Therefore, it should be recognized as a labor relationship. But she directly refused, saying I was a student, and dismissed me as a “service relationship.” She even shouted: “Bring the materials tomorrow for mediation,” “If not, just go directly to litigation.” Damn it, they don’t even know the arbitration process, just using rhetoric to deceive. Clearly, the law is just a tool to reflect the ruling class’s will, a weapon to suppress the working people.
But we know that the new aspects transforming into contradictions are not always smooth; they often go through twists, turns, and even temporary setbacks. These dogs and their masters can temporarily win with their strength. But ultimately, the new aspects will defeat the old ones; new things will replace old things. In essence, new things are invincible. In 2025, farmers in Hainan Island successfully fought against state-owned enterprises. The transformation process of contradictions, the process of new things defeating old things, is a process of metabolism. Chairman Mao pointed out: “Metabolism is a universal and unstoppable law of the universe.”
The task of revolutionaries is to discover new things, support new things, actively create conditions, and promote the growth of new things. Sooner or later, this cannibalistic, unfair, and bullying society will end in our generation.