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Tiananmen divided the workers of the world

When China’s Communist leaders under Deng Xiaoping launched their assault on the Tiananmen Square protesters in 25 years ago, they were supposedly following the socialist road and Marxist principles of proletarian rule. “Workers of all lands, unite!” declared Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto.

But the vast expansion of the world’s workforce unleashed by Deng following the crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters led to the opposite. The opening up of China through economic reform and foreign direct investment has, instead of uniting the proletariat, divided it.

This was not the revolution Marx envisaged but it was the outcome of Deng’s 1992 southern tour, on which the Chinese leader supported reform in cities such as Shenzhen, trying to strengthen party rule by offering the people opportunity. The fact that few Chinese now mark June 4, 1989 is a tribute both to party censorship and to Deng’s gambit.

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約翰•加普

約翰·加普(John Gapper)是英國《金融時報》副主編、首席產業評論員。他的專欄每週四會出現在英國《金融時報》的評論版。加普從1987年開始就在英國《金融時報》工作,報導勞資關係、銀行和媒體。他曾經寫過一本書,叫做《閃閃發亮的騙局》(All That Glitters),講的是霸菱銀行1995年倒閉的內幕。

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