중국 신노동자 시에 나타나는 계급의식 형성 연구 — 쉬리즈(許立志)의 시집 ≪새로운 하루(新的一天)≫를 중심으로

Abstract

This study examines the formation process of Xu Lizhi’s class consciousness, which appears in the poetry collection A New Day by Foxconn suicide worker poet Xu Lizhi. In Chapter 2, I looked at the process of change from the peasant class to peasant workers and new workers. In the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, the formation of ‘class’ in China was radically achieved by the propaganda and political power of the Chinese Communist Party. After 1978, the discourse of ‘class’ was replaced by the discourse of ‘modernity’ and ‘economic development’. Paradoxically, a ‘new working class’ led by the new generation of peasant workers was forming. The ‘class’ consciousness of the new workers began to sprout from a sense of alienation during the labor process amid the oppression of power and public indifference. In Chapter 3, alienation from the production process, alienation from the spcies being, and alienation from other human beings were reviewed in Xu Lizhi’s A New Day. Xu Lizhi’s awareness of the alienation of labor was very strong, and the poetic expression was pure, original, and appropriate without pretense. Xu Lizhi’s poetry is uncluttered, the image is clear, the vocabulary is precise, and it hits the spot like a dagger. Chapter 4 examined the formation process of class consciousness of Xu Lizhi, who became an industrial proletariat. The new workers were thoroughly proletarianized by the multi-layered exploitation of capital from the company and the exploitation of power from the state. After listening to the conversations of his colleagues, Xu Lizhi had a proletarian consciousness. Xu Lizhi was aware of the labor movement inside and outside the company, but he did not participate. Therefore, Xu Lizhi’s class consciousness is class consciousness in itself, not class consciousness for itself. In Chapter 5, the cause of Xu Lizhi’s suicide was analyzed. And compared to the labor consciousness of Korean workers, the limitations of the series consciousness were examined. Whether it is the path of politicization or the path of depoliticization, I think it is necessary to form a new working class in China. In terms of East Asian solidarity, we must continue to listen to their voices.