China’s Young Marxists

There was an ironic article in the weekend Financial Times about China’s Communist Party-ruled state cracking down on young Chinese Marxists. Some college students and other young people in China have noticed that their country has extremes of wealth and poverty, and started taking Marx’s critique seriously, for which a number have been arrested, imprisoned, and, it appears, harshly treated by the Communist authorities.

My readers know that I’m not a Marxist, but I have to admire the courage of the young Marxists who are at least sincere and well-intentioned, while I do not much admire the older men clinging to power in the name of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping Thought, while ruling harshly over their country’s common people.