[mnouquet]

It is actually a pretty good system for the CCP "politburo".

[justshowpost]

Looks like there is a need of explanation for that term.

Politburo (= "Political Bureau") of Central Committee of Communist Party of Soviet Russia. Also, a Politburo member becomes The Chairman.

In a nutshell, ringleaders of ringleaders of Bolsheviks. *MUCH* more equal than the others, naturally.

[mnouquet]

And naturally, it's blasphemous on HN to speak about it.

[thescriptkiddie]

Upwards of 90% of the population of China are CCP members.

[justshowpost]

Just the same situation as in Orwell's Oceania.

mnouquet talks about the Inner Party

[_carbyau_]

"Mr Xi oversees the party and its 92 million members — that might sound huge compared to Australia’s population of 25 million, but it is less than 7 per cent of China’s 1.4 billion people."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/ccp-100-years-chinese...

Honestly, that article has some shit "play with your emotions!" bits in it too but there are facts to be gleaned.

[justshowpost]

Its actually much less innocent than it looks like. Add an additional 100-150M for Communist Youth, a subsidiary organization and 150-250M for Mao Judend, a subsidiary for kids. Its called totalitarianism for a reason.

[dragonwriter]

> Upwards of 90% of the population of China are CCP members.

Over 90% of the population of China are CPC non-members (membership numbers I can find are consistently under 100 million).

100% are subject to rule by the Communist Party of China, though.