Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    Again, I’ve read Marx and you’re putting words in my mouth.

    And again, Marx did not in any way advocate for an aristocracy that own private capital (call it fictitious if you like, China does not) and run publicly traded corporations where the workers do not own the means of production. That was literally everything he was fighting against.

    There is simply nothing communist about an aristocracy. You can say “read Marx” all you like. Marx was 100% against such things. I know because I read Marx.

    By the way, some of those private companies are real estate companies that rent property to Chinese workers for a profit. And if I just read Marx, I’ll know he was in favor of such arrangements.

    I’m sure Marx would never write anything like:

    You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

    In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.

    That’s clearly some Westen imperialist capitalist scum who thinks that way.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      Marx did not in any way advocate for an aristocracy

      He recognized feudalism as a stage of development. That’s very different from advocating for it.

      That’s clearly some Westen imperialist capitalist scum

      You will routinely see Western imperialist capitalist scum furious over China’s domestic ownership rules. Foreign investors can’t have a majority stake in Chinese firms. Foreign patents have to be legally shared with domestic universities and labs. Foreign real estate firms can’t have primary claim on domestic real property. Chinese protectionist policies guarantee Chinese citizens reap the benefit of domestic investment.

      That’s the core logic of Socialism, a pivotal post capitalist step that Karl Marx describes and you can learn about IF YOU READ HIS WORKS.

      And it is being done within the context of Chinese history and geographic potential. One might even describe it as “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        Are you ever going to show me where I claimed China was majority Han or was that trolling?

        I’ve been waiting for an answer and have given you multiple opportunities. I hope for your sake that it wasn’t trolling, because you have one more chance to justify it.