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Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      Am I supposed to read the whole thing to find the defense of the billionaires that didn’t exist when he wrote that or do you feel like quoting me a relevant passage rather than make me waste my time to see something that isn’t there?

      • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
        -4•5 months ago

        Am I supposed to read the whole thing

        Not just that chapter, either. You should read the whole book.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          4•5 months ago

          In other words, you can’t quote the relevant passage where an ever-increasing number of billionaires who control the means of production is a feature of communism.

          • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
            -3•5 months ago

            you can’t quote the relevant passage

            The accumulation of labor power through central management of the capital stock isn’t something you’re going to understand or accept as a single sentence.

            You want this to be like the Bible, where you can just quote John 3:16 and nod sagely, as though it should be revealed wisdom.

            But the material is more complex than a bronze age scripture verse.

            That said, capital accommodation is one stage of economic development. This is the chapter which covers the process of economic development. At some point, you do need a handful of central administrators to oversee productive use of capital. And these administrators will become rich as a result.

            Marxism doesn’t refute this process, it leverages the process towards Socialist accumulation.

            • Flying SquidMEnglish
              3•5 months ago

              I’m pretty sure, based on the Marx I have read, that a pillar of Marxism and communism is that the workers control the means of production, but you have taught me that what is meant by “the workers control the means of production” is “one multibillionaire controls the means of production for tens of thousands of workers.” So thank you, I had no idea that all this time, the U.S. was a communist country too.

              • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
                -3•5 months ago

                a pillar of Marxism and communism is that the workers control the means of production

                Through workers councils and vanguard parties that govern the country.

                That doesn’t preclude any one person from accumulating more currency than another.

                one multibillionaire controls the means of production

                He doesn’t control it. He administers it on behalf of the workers’ state.

                I had no idea

                If you read the whole book, rather than panicking at being handed a single chapter, you’ll know more