The Guardians makes this sound like a good thing.
So wholesome p, kind, and benevolent.
The “New Red Guard, Part Deux”!!
“But they are mostly a peaceful guard”!!!!
In China, every apartment building has their party members whose only function in life is to spy on the other residents. The same goes with every workplace.
The Stasi were pikers!!!
I’ve lived in Berlin during the Cold War, and had two Chinese wives. (Been to China many times.)
True Chinese Communism is surpassed only by North Korea.
They have their work cut out if they want to catch-up to ‘woke’ Dems
“how China fills in surveillance where AI can’t go”
This is the old way of Communism - for people in large apartment buildings they’d have an older lady (a Karenski) at the base of the stairs (your only entrance and exit) who would record you leaving and re-entry, ask you where you’re going, if you leave at an odd hour.
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Communism benefits those at the top, but also those at the bottom.
It provides work and income for those who would otherwise be economically valueless, by having them spy on, and perform enforcement against, the economically productive.
Think of Antifa and BLM. They would otherwise be sitting in mom’s basement, or working at Starbucks. Instead they are given the job of violently going after anyone who might dare to oppose the Democrats.