This is pretty great.

This is pretty great.

Originally shared by Jeff Zahari

“Forty years after Deng Xiaoping’s “Reform and Opening” initiated China’s reincorporation in the global economy, the commodity form seeps deeper into all spaces of social life, from wages to housing, to healthcare and education, to shopping malls and shared bikes. In this context, a handful of young workers exposed to Marx’s writings and alternative readings of them have begun to wonder: “What would the old man think” about their present reality?”