![]() We find this story worth reposting less for its similarity to "Breaking Bad," and more for what this similarity (and differences - such as the fact that "Xu" is a laid-off factory worker rather than a teacher, and Chinese workers' increasing use of meth to stay awake during long shifts) reveal about capitalist development globally and locally, increasing precarization and exclusion of "surplus" proletarians, and how criminality enables a few proles to prosper (until they get caught) at the expense of many others, in a vicious circle of class cannibalism (also illustrated in Yi Xi's interview about ponzi schemes). (The photo above - the "cool" way to smoke meth in China - is from a different story, here.) ![]() The original Chinese report this is based can be read here: 广州下岗工自学变毒师 游走各省做制毒“教授”. Original title "Chinese meth bust smells a lot like ‘Breaking Bad.’" Reposted from Global Post, by Robert Foyle Hunwick, December 4, 2014.
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