The crowd felt exceptionally strange upon hearing Qinsi's description—food is merely the corpse of a living being?
This statement sounds unsettling, but upon closer thought, it seems beyond dispute.
It's akin to those in power speaking of human rights, while in essence, they are just raising the people like livestock, relying on consuming their flesh and blood to maintain their own existence.
Lu Xun could discern the phrase "eating people" between the lines of world history, just like Marx, he saw through the essence of capital—the moment it arrived in the human world, every pore of capital is filthy and blood-soaked, always ready to expand outward.
These are the original words from "Das Kapital."
Marx long ago pointed out that the wealthy can exploit and oppress the impoverished masses through capital.
Even when clothed in the Emperor's new clothes, a fact remains a fact.
