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[-] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s actually quite difficult to join the CPC. You need recommendation letters and all that. They usually pull from high school and university students who excelled academically.

I have friends in the CPC and for me it’s totally not worth it, unless you like the perks of being a party member (networking/connections, better promotion opportunities in SOE etc.).

Rest assured, you will not be discussing socialist theories with your comrades. My friends told me the regular meeting is just bunch of people talking about their “personal development”, what challenges they are facing and how they encourage each other to solve it (mostly about jobs, finances, and other issues). This is in Shanghai by the way, so a fairly middle class demographic, it could be run quite differently in rural townships and villages though, I’m sure there’s more emphasis in solving local issues etc.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Xi please strengthen the ideological development of cadres in Shanghai

[-] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Yeah, speaking as an outsider my impression is that the CPC in Shanghai is full of folks who're liberals but pragmatically letting them into the CPC and being nerd failures is better than letting them turncoat for some liberal or western group.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I really hate the Shanghai libs!

When Zero Covid was still a thing, the Shanghai leadership wanted to emulate Western “targeted lockdown” instead of going full lockdown like everywhere else in the country, which ultimately brought Covid into China and the start of the failure to contain its spread.

Shenzhen and Shanghai both recorded the same number of cases in early 2022, but Shenzhen went full lockdown and very quickly curbed the spread. It was such a failure in Shanghai that they ultimately had to let Covid run loose in the entire country.

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