Di bawah ini pengalaman kongkrit seorang buruh di China kapitalis. Bangun jam 
7:20 AM, sarapan semangkok bubur dan semacam ‘ pancake’ setipis kertas. Seperti 
juga di pabrik-pabrik di Indonesia, pengusaha selalu meningkatkan target. Sama, 
di China juga. Buruh China ini  , pagi hari, kerja 11 jam tanpa istirahat, 
bahkan ke WC pun tidak, karena takut tidak memenuhi target yang harus dibayar 
dengan kerja lembur gratis! Oleh karena itu ketika selesai 11 jam kerja dan mau 
ke WC, orang antri panjang!! Kalau antriannya buyar, kenalah merreka makian 
dari pengawas atau mandor!! Kemudian untuk makan siang, sama... berdesak-desak 
untuk dapat duluan, kalua belakangan datangnya sudah tidak kebagian, karena 
jumlah makanannya tidak sesuai dengan jumlah buruhnya...Walaupun makanannya 
buruk, tapi harus juga mereka menelannya, kalau tidak, bagaimana bias dapat 
sedikit energi untuk meneruskan kerja sore hari!!! Sore hari mereka kerja 5 
jam. Berarti 11 + 5 = 16 jam! Setelah makan malam, masih ada 2 jam lagi kerja 
lembur... Artinya 16 + 2 = 18 jam!!!
Apa yang dialami ABK di kapal China, kerja 18 jam dengan bayaran seperti 
tertulis dalam berita itu sama sekali bukan fantasi!! Coba  antek remo dan 
konco-konco pendukung China kapitalis itu disuruh  kerja 18 jam tiap hari, 
seperti robot!!! 

Gampang sekali ngomong, kapitalis yang nakal, hukum saja....Selesai perkara, 
bukan?? Ha...ha.. Sudah lupa ajaran Marx dan Lenin tentang Negara dan mesin 
Negara serta fungsinya??? Berapa kasus pelanggaran HAM yang sudah diselesaikan 
dengan adil di Indonesia???Ratusan konflik tanah, bahkan konflik yang 
dimenangkan di MA pun, tidak dijalankan. Di AS, segregasi atas dasar ras sudah 
dinyatakan ilegal di konstitusi, tapi sampai hari ini, 2020, masih banyak 
sekali orang kulit hitam yang didiskriminasi... Di China kapitalis, buruh yang 
nuntut diterapkannya hukum yang berlakupun akhirnya di phk, dipenjara, 
diculik!! Apa nanti kata antek remo...Ah,ajaran Marx dan Lenin bukan dogma, 
kenapa tidak bisa dikritik dan „ „ ‘”dikembangkan“??? Ya itulah orang remo, 
kerjanya merevisi ajaran Marx, lenin dan Mao!!!
 
 
One Day
by “I Love Cilantro” (Wo Ai Xiangcai)
 
Working in the factory has turned me into a robot. I live a mechanical 
existence. Almost every day I repeat my role in the same scenes.
 
The alarm clock wakes me up at exactly 7:20 in the morning. I go to the toilet, 
wash my face, change my clothes, no time to brush my teeth, I take my key and 
run straight to the factory. I get to the canteen a bit before 7:40, find a 
bowl, and rush to the window where they serve food. The aunty on the other side 
of the window serves me a bowl of porridge and a pancake about as thin as 
paper. This is my breakfast. Because I can’t fill my stomach, and the canteen 
won’t give me an extra pancake, I often buy a couple of steamed buns on the 
street. It’s the only way I can make it until noon.
 
Our workshop is on the fourth floor. We make facemasks. Each work post has a 
production quota, determined by specialized employees who stand behind our 
backs, timing us with a stopwatch. They always try to raise the quota by 
counting more than we actually produce. Moreover, they do this in the morning 
when we have the most energy, forcing us to repeat that speed for 11 hours. 
Otherwise we don’t reach the quota and have to do unpaid overtime. Most workers 
can’t meet the monthly quota. Although the management in this workshop isn’t 
particularly strict, and you need no special permission for a leave of absence, 
everyone is self-conscious. Some don’t even go to the toilet—not because they 
don’t need to go, but because they’re afraid they won’t meet the production 
quota if they do. Most people wait until they finish their work, so the toilets 
are always packed at the end of a shift.
When it’s time for our break, the line leader gives the order to stop the line, 
then we queue up and wait for him to tell us when it’s OK to leave. We’re 
supposed to punch out one by one in an orderly fashion, but the queue tends to 
break up when we’re all eager to get to the canteen as quickly as possible, so 
the line instructors usually stand by the queue—supposedly to enforce 
discipline, but generally they just yell at us. By the time I finally punch 
out, change my overalls and shoes, and run down from the fourth floor to the 
canteen, it’s already packed with 200 people queued up in front of four 
windows. I grab a bowl, walk to the end of a queue, and then wait and wait, 
peeking into other people’s bowls to see what’s being served. When my turn 
finally comes up, I realize the dish I wanted is long gone, and all that’s left 
is the stuff that not only I but everyone dislikes. But I have no choice, so I 
take a few scoops of pickled vegetables to fill my stomach (and complain 
later). I often complain about the lack of decent food to my coworkers, but 
they blame me for running late, saying if only I hurried up there would be 
plenty to eat. Although I don’t argue, I’m always thinking that with a certain 
amount of people and a certain amount of food, it shouldn’t matter who arrives 
first or last; even if I came earlier, that would just mean someone else 
wouldn’t get to eat.
Although the food is bad, I have to eat something—I’m thinking about the five 
hours of work I have to do in the afternoon, so I manage to gulp it down 
somehow. The afternoon shift is the same as the morning one, an endless 
stamping of facemasks (that means welding together the mouth cover and ear 
straps). Eating dinner feels like eating a cloned version of lunch: everything 
is exactly the same. Sometimes I think my canteen fee is spent entirely on 
pickled vegetables—it’s not worth it, but there’s nothing I can do. Going 
outside to eat takes too much time, and I’m sure the street stalls are even 
less sanitary than the canteen. Although my coworkers sneer at hearing this, I 
keep hoping the canteen will improve.
 
After dinner, there are two more hours of overtime. This is the easiest part of 
the day, since we know it’s almost over, at least. As we get close to the end, 
everyone grows excited, as if we’re about to be “liberated.” That’s why we work 
really fast in the evenings and seem incredibly energetic. We’re finally done, 
freed, and after walking out of the factory gate, the fatigue weighing down my 
body unconsciously melts away into the noise of the commercial district. I also 
forget the repression of the shop floor, as if all that’s left is the 
unbearable physical exhaustion. Only then do I realize that I really spent 
myself in the workshop.
 
I repeat this kind of existence day after day, on the shop floor, unable to see 
the sun, seldom going to the toilet even once. It goes so far that I’m afraid 
the sunlight will hurt my eyes! Although this is just one day, perhaps this 
will be my entire life as long as I’m “affirming” my labor-power in the factory.
 
 
 
 


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