Recently, Zhongxiu has implemented visa-free policies for multiple countries, attempting to develop tourism to gain more fiscal and tax revenue. On November 8, 2024, Zhongxiu began a trial visa-free policy for Korean citizens. On December 17, the China National Immigration Administration issued a bulletin, fully relaxing the border crossing visa-free policy from that day forward, extending the stay of visa-free foreigners in China from the original 72 hours and 144 hours to 240 hours (10 days), and adding 21 ports of entry for visa-free transit personnel, further expanding the area for stay activities. As China’s most developed capitalist metropolis, Shanghai has attracted many wealthy Korean petty bourgeoisie to engage in parasitic consumption.
Zhongxiu, which has always been eager to promote chauvinism of great powers, contemptuously calls Korea a “thief country” and insults the Korean people as “Bangs” (a derogatory term), attempting to incite ethnic opposition between the Chinese and Korean peoples. It is said that after Zhongxiu’s recent visa-free policy for Korea, the wealthy petty bourgeoisie from Korea going to Shanghai said, “There are too few luxury cars in Shanghai.” As a result, Shanghai bourgeoisie children declared that to “shine our national prestige,” they staged free “luxury car shows” specifically for Korean tourists on Wukang Road in Shanghai, and drew detailed schedules to ensure that only the most expensive vehicles of the bourgeoisie appeared on this street. These bourgeoisie children claimed this was patriotic behavior, saying it was to change the stereotypical impression of China as poor and backward among Koreans. The bourgeoisie children, accustomed to luxury and indulgence, wear down jackets in the dead of winter and drive convertibles on Wukang Road to show off their wealth. Showing off wealth by driving luxury cars in front of Korean tourists has become the most exhausting time of the year for these lazy bourgeoisie children.
The state is a tool of class oppression, a violent machine for suppressing hostile classes. The state only represents the interests of the ruling class. These bourgeoisie children are indeed patriotic—they love the imperialist big power of Chinese society, loving the capitalist system that allows them to become wealthy through brutal exploitation of the vast working people. These spoiled children live a decadent, shameless parasitic life, eating and sleeping all day, spiritually impoverished and empty. Their actions did not demonstrate China’s strength and prosperity to the Korean people; they only flaunted how luxurious and indulgent their parasitic bourgeoisie lifestyle is to the Koreans, who are fed up, hungry, and impoverished. The bourgeoisie children show off luxury cars to Korean tourists, but in reality, this is a display of the fruits of exploitation by the bourgeoisie—bragging about the wealth they have extracted from the laboring masses! The essence of capitalist accumulation is “extreme wealth accumulation on one end and poverty, slavery, and labor torment on the other.” The reason why Chinese bourgeoisie can indulge in extravagance and waste is precisely because they control the means of production in this capitalist country and exploit workers brutally through production.
The “luxury car show” once again exposes the huge wealth gap in China to the entire Chinese and global peoples. The shameful behavior of these parasitic children, who survive by bloodsucking, not only provokes dissatisfaction and ridicule from foreign peoples but also ignites the anger in the hearts of the Chinese people. Korean petty bourgeoisie tourists in China are not only despised as “looking at luxury cars and seeing the world” but also filmed and criticized by Chinese “little pinks” (nationalist netizens). Zhongxiu’s attempt to cover up China’s sharp class contradictions and enormous wealth gap by dispatching police to drive away these bourgeoisie children’s luxury cars is futile. In fact, just 500 meters from Nanjing East Road are the old shantytowns where most Chinese workers live in so-called big cities, with communal toilets.
Marx said that Hegel once said that the same thing happens twice in history, but he forgot to mention that the first time is a tragedy and the second time is a farce. The clownish behavior of Zhongxiu’s bourgeoisie has already been done by Emperor Yang of Sui, and Zhongxiu’s rule is no different from the decadence and impending demise of the late Sui Dynasty.
The former Emperor Yang of Sui liked to flaunt the wealth of the “Celestial Empire” to the world, entertaining foreign guests with extreme luxury. When monarchs or chieftains from various countries gathered in Luoyang, Emperor Yang ordered extravagant banquets and performed “Bai Xi” (a variety show) on Yuanxiao Festival at Duanmen Street. The term “Bai Xi” originated in the Han Dynasty and refers to a collection of folk skills, including acrobatics, wrestling, magic, singing and dancing, mainly acrobatics. According to official history, Luoyang’s venue for “Bai Xi” performances was extraordinarily spacious, with around 5,000 steps around it, and the musicians numbered as many as 18,000, with music heard from dozens of miles away. After the “Bai Xi” performances, Emperor Yang ordered the Fengtou Market to be open for Sino-foreign trade. Before starting, he ordered “to tidy up the city appearance,” requiring the thorough cleaning of all “low-end populations,” with shop eaves styled uniformly, full draperies hung inside, and various precious goods displayed to show the richness of the “Celestial Empire.” Moreover, Emperor Yang stipulated that all merchants entering or leaving the market must wear splendid clothes, and stalls must be decorated exquisitely, even street vendors selling vegetables must use dragon beard mats to display China’s wealth and civilization. At the same time, he ordered the trees along the streets to be wrapped in silk so foreign merchants could witness the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty firsthand. Additionally, he decreed that shop owners must warmly invite foreign merchants passing by taverns and restaurants to dine and drink freely without charging a penny. However, some foreign traders, seeing the vast wealth disparity of the Sui Dynasty, asked Chinese merchants, “China is indeed prosperous and wealthy, but we also saw many poor people without clothes along the way. We wonder why your country, which is wrapped in silk, does not make clothes from it to help the poor?”
The future China will not tolerate the existence of cannibalistic people. These bourgeoisie, though arrogant for a time, will be overthrown by the people’s revolutionary struggle, and the decadent, luxurious bourgeoisie life will be completely eradicated from this world. Zhongxiu’s incitement and sowing discord between the Chinese and Korean peoples are futile; China will also, after experiencing a second socialist revolution, build a truly prosperous and democratic socialist giant country.
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Showing off luxury cars is just so stupid.