Demonstrators hold banners in support of workers at the Jasic Technology factory in Shenzhen, in China's Guangdong province, on Aug. 6. Sue-Lin Wong/Reuters
NPR: In China, The Communist Party's Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists
When he started at Beijing's Renmin University, one of China's best schools, a freshman scanned a list of student clubs and landed on the one that made him the most excited: Young Marxists.
"I'm from a working-class family in the countryside," he says. "Very few students with my background could have made it to my school. I liked that this group pays attention to the issues of workers and farmers, so I joined."
He was also interested in studying the works of 19th-century philosopher and economist Karl Marx; works that inspired the founders of China's Communist Party. Young Marxists aim to put the thinker's ideas into practice on Renmin University's campus.
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WNU Editor: I have mentioned it many times before. But when I read stories like the above one from NPR, I remember what my father (a former Soviet Communist official)once said to me when he moved to Canada .... "son .... there are more Communists in Canada than in the Soviet Union". I can say the same about China. The Chinese people I know are more interested in making money and a better life. The last thing on their minds is preaching Marxist ideology.