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Dec 26, 2004 Presented
by EPOCH TIMES
(Updated: January 6, 2005)
Commentaries
on the Communist Party - Part 8
On
How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult
This is the eighth of Nine Commentaries
on the Communist Party. Copied here in August 2011
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The Cultural Revolution was a time period
in which “the Sun is the most red” while “the world is the darkest.” Everybody
had to study Mao’s works. (Getty Images) |
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The collapse of the socialist bloc headed
by the Soviet Union in the early 1990s marked the failure of communism
after almost a century. However, the CCP unexpectedly survived and still
controls China, a nation with one fifth of the world’s population. An unavoidable
question arises: Is the CCP today still truly communist?
No one in today’s China, including Party
members, believes in communism. After fifty years of socialism, the CCP
has now adopted private ownership and even has a stock market. It seeks
foreign investment to establish new ventures, while exploiting workers
and peasants as much as it can. This is completely opposite to the ideals
of communism. Despite compromising with capitalism, the CCP maintains autocratic
control of the people of China. The Constitution, as revised in 2004, still
rigidly states “Chinese people of various ethnicities will continue adhering
to the people’s democratic dictatorship and socialist path under the leadership
of the Chinese Communist Party and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao
Zedong’s ideology, Deng Xiaoping’s theory and the important thought of
the ‘Three Represents’…”
“The leopard has died, but its skin
is still left” [1]. Today’s CCP only has “its skin” left. The CCP inherited
this skin and uses it to maintain its rule over China.
What is the nature of the skin inherited
by the CCP, i.e., the very organization of the CCP? |
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I. The Cultish
Traits of the CCP |
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Table 1. Religious Traits of the
CCP.
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The Basic
Forms of a Religion |
The Corresponding
Forms of the CCP |
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Church or platform (podium) |
All levels of the Party
committee; the platform ranges from Party meetings to all media controlled
by the CCP |
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Doctrines |
Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong's
Ideology, Deng Xiaoping's Theory, Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents", and
Party Constitution |
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Initiation rites |
Ceremony in which oaths
are taken to be loyal to the CCP forever |
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Commitment to one religion |
A member may only believe
in the communist party |
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Priests |
Party Secretaries and staff
in charge of party affairs on all levels |
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Worshiping God |
Slandering all Gods, and
then establishing itself as an unnamed "God" |
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Death is called "ascending
to heaven or descending to hell" |
Death is called "going
to see Marx" |
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Scriptures |
The theory and writings
of the Communist Party leaders |
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Preaching |
All sorts of meetings;
leaders' speeches |
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Chanting scriptures; study
or cross-examination of scriptures |
Political studies; routine
group meetings or activities for the Party members |
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Hymn (religious songs) |
Songs to eulogize the Party |
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Donations |
Compulsory membership fees;
mandatory allocation of governmental budget, which is money from people's
sweat and blood, for the Party's use |
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Disciplinary punishment |
Party disciplines ranging
from "house arrest and investigation" and "expulsion from the Party" to
deadly tortures and even punishments of relatives and friends |
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The Communist Party is essentially an
evil cult that harms mankind.
Although the Communist Party has never
called itself a religion, it matches every single trait of a religion (Table
1).
At the beginning of its establishment,
it regarded Marxism as the absolute truth in the world. It piously worshipped
Marx as its spiritual God, and exhorted people to engage in a life-long
struggle for the goal of building a “communist heaven on earth.”
The Communist Party is significantly
different from any righteous religion. All orthodox religions believe in
God and benevolence, and have as their purpose instructing humanity about
morality and saving souls. The Communist Party does not believe in God
and opposes traditional morality.
What the Communist Party has done proves
itself to be an evil cult. The Communist Party’s doctrines are based upon
class struggle, violent revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat
and have resulted in the so-called “communist revolution” full of blood
and violence. The red terror under communism has lasted for about a century,
bringing disasters to dozens of countries in the world and costing tens
of millions of lives. The communist belief, one that created a hell on
earth, is nothing but the vilest cult in the world. |
The communist party’s cultish traits
can be summarized under six heads:
1. Concoction of Doctrines and
Elimination of Dissidents
The Communist Party holds up Marxism
as its religious doctrine and shows it off as “the unbreakable truth.”
The doctrines of the Communist Party lack benevolence and tolerance. Instead,
they are full of arrogance. Marxism was a product of the initial period
of capitalism when productivity was low and science was under-developed.
It didn’t have a correct understanding at all of the relationships between
humanity and society or humanity and nature. Unfortunately, this heretical
ideology developed into the international communist movement, and harmed
the human world for over a century before the people discarded it, having
found it completely wrong in practice.
Party leaders since Lenin have always
amended the cult’s doctrines. From Lenin’s theory of violent revolution
to Mao Zedong’s theory of continuous revolution under the dictatorship
of the proletariat, to Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents,” the Communist
Party’s history is full of such heretical theory and fallacy. Although
these theories have constantly caused disasters in practice and are self-contradictory,
the Communist Party still proclaims it is universally correct and forces
the people to study its doctrines.
Eliminating dissidents is the most effective
means for the evil cult of communism to spread its doctrine. Because the
doctrine and behavior of this evil cult are too ridiculous, the communist
party has to force people to accept them, relying on violence to eliminate
dissidents. After the Chinese Communist Party seized the reins of power
in China, it initiated “land reform” to eliminate the landlord class, the
“socialist reform” in industry and commerce to eliminate capitalists, the
“movement of purging reactionaries” to eliminate folk religions and officials
who held office before the communists took power, the “anti-rightist movement”
to silence intellectuals, and the “Great Cultural Revolution” to eradicate
traditional Chinese culture. The CCP was able to unify China under the
communist evil cult and achieve a situation where everyone read the
Red Book , performed the “loyalty dance,” and “asked for the Party’s
instructions in the morning and reported to the Party in the evening.”
In the period after Mao and Deng’s reigns, the CCP asserted that Falun
Gong, a traditional cultivation practice that believes in Truthfulness,
Compassion and Tolerance, would compete with it for the masses and so intended
to eradicate Falun Gong. It therefore initiated a genocidal persecution
of Falun Gong, which continues today.
2. Promotion of Leader Worship and Supremacist
Views
From Marx to Jiang Zemin, the Communist
Party leaders’ portraits are prominently displayed for worship. The absolute
authority of the Communist Party leaders forbids any challenge. Mao Zedong
was set up as the “red sun” and “big liberator.” The Party spoke outrageously
about his writing, saying “one sentence equals 10,000 ordinary sentences.”
As an “ordinary party member,” Deng Xiaoping once dominated Chinese politics
like an overlord. Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents” theory is merely a little
over 40 characters long including punctuation, but the CCP Fourth Plenary
Session boosted it as “providing a creative answer to questions such as
what socialism is, how to construct socialism, what kind of party we are
building and how to build the Party.” The Party also spoke outrageously
about the thought of the “Three Represents,” although in this case actually
mocking it when saying it is a continuation and development of Marxism-Leninism,
Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.
Stalin’s wanton slaughter of innocent
people, the catastrophic “Great Cultural Revolution” launched by Mao Zedong,
Deng Xiaoping’s order for the Tiananmen massacre and Jiang Zemin’s ongoing
persecution of Falun Gong are the dreadful results of the Communist Party’s
heretical dictatorship.
On one hand, the CCP stipulates in its
Constitution, “All power in the People’s Republic of China belongs to the
people. The organs through which the people exercise state power are the
National People’s Congress and the local people’s congresses at different
levels.” “No organization or individual may enjoy the privilege of being
above the Constitution and the law.” [2] On the other hand, the CCP Charter
stipulates that the CCP is the core of the leadership for the Chinese-featured
socialist cause, overriding both the country and the people. The chairman
of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress made “important
speeches” across the country, claiming that the National People’s Congress,
the highest organ of state power, must adhere to the CCP’s leadership.
According to the CCP’s principle of “democratic centralism,” the entire
party must obey the Central Committee of the Party. Stripped to its core,
what the National People’s Congress really insists upon is the dictatorship
of the General Secretary, which is in turn protected in the form of legislation.
3. Violent Brainwashing, Mind Control,
Tight Organization and No Quitting Once Admitted
The CCP’s organization is extremely
tight: one needs two party members’ references before admission; a new
member must swear to be loyal to the party forever once admitted; party
members must pay membership dues, attend organizational activities, and
take part in group political study. The party organizations penetrate all
levels of the government. There are basic CCP organizations in every single
village, town, and neighborhood. The CCP controls not only its party members
and party affairs, but also those who are not members, because the entire
regime must “adhere to the Party’s leadership.” In those years when class
struggle campaigns were carried out, the “priests” of the CCP religion,
namely, the Party secretaries at all levels, more often than not, did not
know exactly what they did other than disciplining people.
The “criticism and self-criticism” in
the party meetings serves as a common, unending means for controlling the
minds of party members. Throughout its existence, the CCP has launched
a multitude of political movements for “purifying the Party members,” “rectifying
the Party atmosphere,” “capturing traitors,” “purging the Anti-Bolshevik
Corps (AB Corps) [3]” and “disciplining the Party,” periodically testing
the “sense of Party nature” - that is, using violence and terror to test
the Party members’ devotion to the Party, while assuring they keep in step
with it forever.
Joining the CCP is like signing an irrevocable
contract to sell one’s body and soul. With the Party’s rules being always
above the laws of the Nation, the Party can dismiss any party member at
will, while the individual party member cannot quit the CCP without incurring
severe punishment. Quitting the Party is considered disloyal and will bring
about dire consequences. During the Great Cultural Revolution when the
CCP cult held absolute rule, it was well known that if the party wanted
you dead, you could not live; if the party wanted you alive, you could
not die. If a person committed suicide, he would be labeled as “dreading
the people’s punishment for his crime” and his family members would also
be implicated and punished.
The decision process within the Party
operates like a black box, as the intra-party struggles must be kept in
absolute secrecy. Party documents are all confidential. Dreading exposure
of their criminal acts, the CCP frequently tackles dissidents by charging
them with “divulging state secrets.”
4. Urging Violence, Carnage and Sacrifice
for the Party
Mao Zedong said, “A revolution is not
a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery;
it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous,
restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of
violence by which one class overthrows another.” [4]
Deng Xiaoping recommended “Killing 200,000
people in exchange for 20 years’ stability.”
Jiang Zemin ordered, “Destroy them (Falun
Gong practitioners) physically, defame their reputation, and bankrupt them
financially.”
The CCP promotes violence, and has killed
countless people throughout its previous political movements. It educates
people to treat the enemy “as cold as the severe winter.” The red flag
is understood to be red for having been “dyed red with martyrs’ blood.”
The Party worships red due to its addiction to blood and carnage.
The CCP makes an exhibition of “heroic”
examples to encourage people to sacrifice for the Party. When Zhang Side
died working in a kiln to produce opium, Mao Zedong praised his death as
being “heavy as Mount Tai [5].” In those frenzied years, “brave words”
such as “Fear neither hardship nor death” and “Bitter sacrifice strengthens
bold resolve; we dare to make the sun and moon shine in new skies” gave
aspirations substance amidst an extreme shortage of material supplies.
At the end of the 1970s, the Vietcong
dispatched troops and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime, which was fostered
by the CCP and committed unspeakable crimes. Although the CCP was furious,
it could not dispatch troops to support the Khmer Rouge, since China and
Cambodia did not share a common border. Instead, the CCP launched a war
against Vietnam along the Chinese-Vietnam border to punish the Vietcong
in the name of “self-defense.” Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers therefore
sacrificed blood and lives for this struggle between Communist Parties.
Their deaths had in fact nothing to do with territory or sovereignty. Nevertheless,
several years later, the CCP disgracefully memorialized the senseless sacrifice
of so many naive and bright young lives as “the revolutionary heroic spirit,”
irreverently borrowing the song “The elegant demeanor dyed by blood.” 154
Chinese martyrs died in 1981 recapturing Mount Faka in Guangxi Province,
but the CCP casually returned it to Vietnam after China and Vietnam surveyed
the boundary.
When the rampant spread of SARS threatened
people’s lives at the beginning of 2003, the CCP readily admitted many
young female nurses. These women were then quickly confined in hospitals
to nurse SARS patients. The CCP push young people to the most dangerous
frontline, in order to establish its “glorious image” of “Fear neither
hardship nor death.” However, the CCP has no explanation as to where the
rest of the current 65 million party members were and what image they brought
to the Party.
5. Denying Belief in God and Smothering
Human Nature
The CCP promotes atheism and claims
that religion is “spiritual opium” that can intoxicate the people. It used
its power to squelch all religions in China, and then it deified itself,
giving absolute rule of the country to the CCP cult.
At the same time as the CCP sabotaged
religion, it also destroyed traditional culture. It claimed that tradition,
morality and ethics were feudalistic, superstitious and reactionary, eradicating
them in the name of revolution. During the great Cultural Revolution, widespread
ugly phenomena violated Chinese traditions, such as married couples accusing
each other, students beating their teachers, fathers and sons turning against
each other, Red Guards wantonly killing the innocent, and rebels beating,
smashing and looting. These were the natural consequences of the CCP’s
smothering human nature.
After establishing its regime, the CCP
forced minority nationalities to pledge allegiance to the communist leadership,
compromising the rich and colorful ethnic culture they had established.
On June 4, 1989, the so-called “People's
Liberation Army” massacred many students in Beijing. This caused the Chinese
to completely lose hope in China’s political future. From then on, the
entire people turned their focus to making money. From 1999 to this day,
the CCP has been brutally persecuting Falun Gong, turning against “Truthfulness,
Compassion and Tolerance” and thereby causing an accelerated decline in
moral standards.
Since the beginning of this new century,
a new round of illegal land enclosure [6] and seizure of monetary and material
resources [by the corrupt CCP officials in collusion with profiteers] has
driven many people to become destitute and homeless. The number of people
appealing to the government in an attempt to have an injustice settled
has increased sharply, and social conflict has intensified. Large-scale
protests are frequent, which the police and armed forces have violently
suppressed. The fascist nature of the “Republic” has become prominent,
and society has lost its moral conscience.
In the past, a villain didn’t harm his
next door neighbors, or, as the saying goes, the fox preyed far from home.
Nowadays, when people want to con someone, they would rather target their
relatives and friends, and call it “killing acquaintances.”
In the past, Chinese nationals cherished
chastity above all else, whereas people today ridicule the poor but not
the prostitutes. The history of the destruction of human nature and morals
in China is vividly displayed in a ballad below:
“In the 50s people helped one another,
In the 60s people strove with one another,
In the 70s people swindled one another,
In the 80s people cared only for themselves,
In the 90s people took advantage of
anyone they ran into.”
6. Military Seizure of Power, Monopolization
of the Economy and Wild Political and Economic Ambitions
The sole purpose of establishing the
CCP was to seize power by armed force and then to generate a system of
state ownership in which the state holds monopolies in the planned economy.
The CCP’s wild ambition far surpasses that of the ordinary evil cults who
simply accumulate money.
In a country of socialist public ownership
ruled by the Communist Party, Party organizations that hold great power,
that is, the Party committees and branches at various levels, are imposed
upon or possess the normal state infrastructure. The possessing Party organizations
control state machinery and draw funds directly from the budgets of the
governments at different levels. Like a vampire, the CCP has sucked a huge
amount of wealth from the nation.
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II. The Damage
the CCP Cult Has Wrought |
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When incidents like Aum Shinri Kyo
(Supreme Truth) killing people with sarin nerve gas, the Solar Temple’s
ascending to heaven by suicide, or the mass suicide of over 900 followers
of Jim Jones’ “People’s Temple” are mentioned, everyone trembles with fear
and outrage. The CCP is, however, an evil cult that commits crimes a thousand
times worse, harming countless lives. This is because the CCP possesses
the following unique features that ordinary cults lack.
The Evil Cult Became a State Religion
In most countries, if you do not follow
a religion, you can still enjoy a happy life without reading the literature
or listening to the principles of that religion. In mainland China, however,
it is impossible for one to live there without a constant exposure to the
doctrines and propaganda of the CCP cult, as the CCP has turned this evil
cult into a state religion since its seizure of power.
The CCP begins to instill its political
preaching in as early as kindergarten and elementary school. One cannot
receive higher education or promotion to higher office without passing
the Political Examination. None of the questions in the Political Examination
allow independent thinking. Those taking the exams are required to memorize
the standard answers provided by the CCP in order to pass. The unfortunate
Chinese people are forced to repeat the CCP’s preaching even when they
are young, brainwashing themselves over and over again. When a cadre is
promoted to a higher office in the government, whether he is a member of
the CCP or not, he has to attend the Party School. He won’t be promoted
until he has met the requirements for graduation from the Party School.
In China, where the Communist Party
is the state religion, groups with different opinions are not allowed to
exist. Even the “democratic parties,” which are merely set up by the CCP
as a political screen, and the reformed “Three-Self Church” (i.e., self-administration,
self-support and self-propagation) must formally acknowledge the leadership
of the CCP. Loyalty to the CCP is the first priority before entertaining
any other beliefs, according to the very cultish logic of the CCP.
Social Controls Go to Extremes
This evil cult was able to become a
state religion, because the CCP had complete social control and deprived
individuals of freedom. This kind of control is unprecedented, since the
CCP deprived people of private property, which is one foundation of freedom.
Before the 1980’s, people in urban areas could only earn a living by working
in Party-controlled enterprises. Farmers in the rural areas had to live
on the farm land belonging to the communes of the Party. Nobody could escape
the CCP’s control. In a socialist country like China, the Communist Party
organizations are ubiquitous - from the central government to the most
grass-roots levels of society, including villages and neighborhoods. Through
the Party committees and branches at all levels, the CCP maintains an absolute
control over society. Such strict control completely squelches individual
freedom - the freedom of movement (residence registration system), freedom
of speech (500,000 rightists were persecuted by the CCP because they exercised
free speech), freedom of thought (Lin Zhao and Zhang Zhixin [7] were executed
for having doubts about the CCP), and freedom to obtain information (it
is illegal to read forbidden books or listen to “enemies’ radio stations”;
internet browsing is monitored as well.)
One might say that private ownership
is allowed now by the CCP, but we should not forget that this policy of
reform and openness only came about when socialism reached a point where
people did not have enough to eat and the national economy was on the brink
of collapse. The CCP had to take a step back in order to save itself from
destruction. Nevertheless, even after the reform and opening, the CCP has
never relaxed its control over the people. The ongoing brutal persecution
of Falun Gong practitioners could have only occurred in a country controlled
by the Communist Party. If the CCP were to become an economic giant as
it wishes, it is certain that the CCP would intensify its control over
the Chinese people.
Advocating Violence and Despising Life
Almost all evil cults control their
followers or resist external pressure through violence. However, few have
resorted to the extent the CCP has to violent means without compunction.
Even the total number of deaths caused by all other evil cults across the
world cannot compare to the number of people killed by the CCP. The CCP
cult sees humanity as merely a means to realize its goal; killing is just
another means. Thus, the CCP has no reservations or scruples in persecuting
people. Anyone, including supporters, members and leaders of the CCP, can
become a target of its persecution.
The CCP fostered the Cambodian Khmer
Rouge, a typical case of the Communist Party’s brutality and disregard
for life. Inspired and guided by Mao Zedong’s teaching, during its reign
of three years and eight months, the Pol Pot-led Cambodian Communist Party
slaughtered two million people - about one-fourth of this small country’s
entire population - in order to “eliminate the system of private ownership.”
Out of the total number of deaths, more than 200,000 were of Chinese ethnicity.
To commemorate the crimes committed
by the Communist Party and memorialize the victims, Cambodia set up a museum
for documenting and exhibiting the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. The museum
is in a former Khmer Rouge prison. Originally a high school, the building
was transformed by Pol Pot to the S-21 Prison, which was used specifically
for dealing with prisoners of conscience. Many intellectuals were detained
there and tortured to death. Displayed along with the prison buildings
and various torture instruments are also the black and white photos of
the victims before they were put to death. There are many horrible tortures
documented: throats cut, brains drilled, infants thrown to the ground and
killed, etc. All these torture methods were reportedly taught by the “experts
and technical professionals” that the CCP dispatched in support of the
Khmer Rouge. The CCP even trained the photographers, who specialized in
taking pictures, whether for documentation or entertainment, of the prisoners
before they were executed.
Precisely in this S-21 Prison a head-drilling
machine was devised to extract the human brains for making nutritious meals
for the leaders of the Cambodian Communist Party. The prisoners of conscience
were tied to a chair in front of the head-drilling machine. The victim
would be extremely terrified, as a rapidly turning drill bit punctured
the head from behind and quickly and effectively extracted the brains before
the victim died. |
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III. The Communist
Party’s Cult Nature |
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What makes the Communist Party so tyrannical
and so evil? When this specter of the Communist Party came to this world,
it came with a chilling mission. The Communist Manifesto has a very
famous passage towards the end,
The Communists disdain to conceal
their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained
only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the
ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have
nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
The mission of this specter was to use
violence to openly challenge the human society, to smash the old world,
“to eliminate private ownership,” “to eliminate the character, independence
and freedom of the bourgeoisie,” to eliminate exploitation, to eliminate
families, and to let the proletarians govern the world.
This political party, which openly announced
the desire to “beat, smash and rob,” not only denies its point of view
to be evil, but also declared self-righteously in the Communist Manifesto
, “The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional
relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture
with traditional ideas.”
Where do the traditional thoughts come
from? According to the atheist’s law of nature, traditional thoughts come
naturally from the laws of nature and the society. They are the results
of systematic movements of the universe. According to those who believe
in God, however, the human traditions and moral values are given by God.
Regardless of their origin, the most fundamental human morality, behavioral
norms, and standards of judging good and bad are relatively stable; they
have been the basis for regulating human behavior and maintaining social
order for thousands of years. If mankind lost the moral norms and standards
for judging good and bad, wouldn’t humans degenerate into animals? When
the Communist Manifesto declares it will “fundamentally rupture
with traditional ideas,” it threatens the basis for the normal existence
of human society. The Communist Party was bound to become an evil cult
that brings destruction to mankind.
The entire document of Communist
Manifesto , which sets forth the guiding principles for the communist
party, is permeated with extreme pronouncements but not a bit of kindness
and tolerance. Marx and Engels thought they had found the law of social
development through dialectic materialism. Hence, with the “truth” in hand,
they questioned everything and denied everything. They stubbornly imposed
the illusions of Communism on the people and did not hold back in advocating
the use of violence to destroy existing social structures and cultural
foundations. What was brought along with the Communist Manifesto
to the newborn Communist Party was an iniquitous specter that opposes the
laws of heaven, exterminates human nature, and appears arrogant, extremely
selfish and totally unconstrained. |
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IV. The Communist
Party’s Doomsday Theory - the Fear of the Party Ending |
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Marx and Engels instilled a wicked
spirit into the Communist Party. Lenin established the Communist Party
in Russia and, through the violence of scoundrels, overthrew the transitional
government built after the February Revolution, [8] aborted the bourgeois
revolution in Russia, took over the government, and obtained a foothold
for the Communist cult. However, Lenin’s success did not make the proletarians
win the world. Just the contrary, as the first paragraph in the Communist
Manifesto says, “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy
alliance to exorcise this specter...” After the Communist Party was born,
it immediately faced the crisis of its survival and feared elimination
at anytime.
After the October Revolution [9], the
Russian Communists, or Bolsheviks, did not bring the people peace or bread,
but only wanton killing. The front line was losing the war and the revolution
worsened the economy in the society. Hence, the people started to rebel.
Civil war quickly spread to the entire nation and the farmers refused to
provide food to the cities. A full-scale riot originated among the Cossacks
near the River Don; its battle with the Red Army brought brutal bloodshed.
The barbaric and brutal nature of the slaughter that took place in this
battle can be seen from literature, such as Sholokhov’s “Tikhii Don” and
his other Don River story collections. The troops, lead by the former White
Army Admiral Aleksandr Vailiyevich Kolchak and General Anton Denikin, almost
overthrew the Russian Communist Party at one point. Even as a newborn political
power, the Communist party was opposed by almost the entire nation, perhaps
because the Communist cult was too evil to win the people’s hearts.
The experience of the Chinese Communist
Party was similar to Russia’s. From the “Mari Incident” and “April 12th
Massacre,”[10] to being suppressed five times in areas controlled by the
Chinese Communists, and eventually to being forced to undertake a 25,000-kilometer
(15,600 miles) “Long March” - the CCP always faced the crisis of being
eliminated.
The Communist Party was born with the
determination to destroy the old world by all means. It then found itself
having to face a real problem: how to survive without being eliminated.
The Communist Party has been living in a constant fear of its own demise.
To survive has become the Communist cult’s top concern, its all-consuming
focus. With the international Communist alliance in disarray, the CCP’s
crisis of survival has worsened. Since 1989, its fear of its own doomsday
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V. The Treasured
Weapon for the Communist Cult’s Survival - Brutal Struggle |
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The Communist Party has constantly
emphasized iron discipline, absolute loyalty, and organizational principles.
Those who join the CCP must swear,
“I wish to join the Chinese Communist
Party, to support the Party’s constitution, follow the Party’s regulations,
fulfill the member’s obligations, execute the Party’s decisions, strictly
follow the Party’s disciplines, keep the Party’s secrets, be loyal to the
Party, work diligently, dedicate my whole life to Communism, stand ready
to sacrifice everything for the Party and the people, and never betray
the Party.” (See the CCP Constitution, Chapter One, Article Six)
The CCP calls this spirit of cult-like
devotion to the Party the “sense of Party nature.” It asks a CCP member
to be ready anytime to give up all personal beliefs and principles and
to obey absolutely the Party’s will and the leader’s will. If the Party
wants you to be kind, then you should be kind; if the Party wants you to
do evil, then you should do evil. Otherwise you would not meet the standard
of being a Party member, having not shown a strong “sense of Party nature.”
Mao Zedong said, “Marxist philosophy
is a philosophy of struggle.” To foster and maintain the “sense of Party
nature,” the CCP relies on the mechanism of periodical struggles within
the Party. Through continuously mobilizing brutal struggles inside and
outside the Party, the CCP has eliminated dissidents and created the red
terror. At the same time, the CCP continuously purges Party members, makes
its cult-type rules stricter, and fosters members’ aptitude towards the
“Party nature” to enhance the Party’s fighting capacity. This is a treasured
weapon the CCP uses to prolong its survival.
Among CCP leaders, Mao Zedong was the
most adept at mastering this treasured weapon of brutal struggle within
the Party. The brutality of such a struggle and the malevolence of its
methods began as early as the 1930’s in areas controlled by the Chinese
Communists, the so-called “Soviet Area.”
In 1930, Mao Zedong initiated a full-scale
revolutionary terror in the Soviet area in Jiangxi Province, known as the
purging
of the Anti-Bolshevik Corps, or the AB Corps. Thousands of Red Army soldiers,
Party and League members and civilians in the Communist bases were brutally
murdered. The incident was caused by Mao’s despotic control. After Mao
established the Soviet area in Jiangxi, he was soon challenged by the local
Red Army and Party organizations in southwest Jiangxi led by Li Wenlin.
Mao could not stand any organized opposition force right under his nose
and he used the most extreme methods to suppress the Party members he suspected
of being dissidents. To create a stern atmosphere for the purge, Mao did
not hesitate to start with troops under his direct control. From late November
to mid December, the First Front Red Army went through a “quick military
rectification.” Organizations for purging counterrevolutionaries were established
at every single level in the army, including division, regiment, battalion,
company, and platoon, arresting and killing Party members who were from
families of landlords or rich peasants and those who had complaints. In
less than one month, among more than 40,000 Red Army soldiers, 4,400 were
named as AB Corps elements, including more than 10 captains (the AB Corps
captains); all of them were executed.
In the following period, Mao began to
punish those dissidents in the Soviet Area. In December 1930, he ordered
Li Shaojiu, Secretary General of the General Political Department of the
First Front Red Army and Chairman of the Purge Committee to represent the
General Frontier Committee and go to the town of Futian in Jiangxi Province
where the Communist government is located. Li Shaojiu arrested members
of the Provincial Action Committee and eight chief leaders of the 20th
Red Army, including Duan Liangbi and Li Baifang. He used many cruel torture
methods such as beating and burning the body - people who were tortured
like this had injuries all over their bodies, fingers fractured, burns
all over, and could not move. According to the documentary evidence at
that time, the victims’ cries were so loud as to pierce the sky; the cruel
torture methods were extremely inhumane.
On December 8, the wives of Li Baifang,
Ma Ming and Zhou Mian went to visit their husbands in detention, but they
were also arrested as members of the AB Corps and cruelly tortured. They
were severely beaten, their bodies and vulvae burned and breasts cut with
knives. Under the cruel torture, Duan Liangbi confessed that Li Wenlin,
Jin Wanbang, Liu Di, Zhou Mian, Ma Ming and others were leaders of the
AB Corps and that there were many members of AB Corps in the Red Army’s
schools.
From December 7 to the evening of December
12, in merely five days, Li Shaojiu and others arrested more than 120 alleged
AB Corps members and dozens of principal counter-revolutionaries in the
severe AB Corps purge in Futian; more than 40 people were executed. Li
Shaojiu’s cruel acts finally triggered the “Futian Incident” [11] on December
12, 1930 that highly astounded the Soviet Area. (From Historical Investigation
of Mao Zedong’s Purge of “AB Corps” in Soviet Area, Jiangxi Province
by Gao Hua)
From the Soviet Area to Yan’an, Mao
relied on his theory and practice of struggle and gradually sought and
established his absolute leadership of the Party. After the CCP came to
power in 1949, Mao continued to reply on this kind of inner-party struggle.
For example, in the eighth plenum of the Eighth CCP Central Committee meeting
held in Lushan in 1959, Mao Zedong launched a sudden attack on Peng Dehuai
and removed him from his position [12].
All of the central leaders who attended
the conference were asked to take a stand; the few who dared to express
different opinions were all labeled the Peng Dehuai antiparty bloc. During
the Cultural Revolution, the veteran cadres at the CCP’s Central Committee
were punished one after another, but all of them gave in without putting
up a fight. Who would dare to speak a word against Mao Zedong? The CCP
has always emphasized iron discipline, loyalty to the Party, and organizational
principles, requiring absolute obedience to the hierarchy’s leader. This
kind of party nature has been engrained in the continuous political struggles.
During the Cultural Revolution, Li Lisan,
once a CCP leader, was driven to the limit of his endurance. At 68 years
of age, he was interrogated on average seven times per month. His wife
Li Sha was treated as a “Soviet revisionist” spy, and had already been
sent to jail; her whereabouts were unknown. With no other choice and in
extreme despair, Li committed suicide by swallowing a large quantity of
sleeping pills. Before his death, Li Lisan wrote a letter to Mao Zedong,
truly reflecting the “sense of Party nature,” according to which a CCP
member does not dare to give up, even on the verge of death:
Chairman,
I am now stepping onto the path of
betraying the Party by committing suicide, and have no means to defend
my crime. Only one thing, that is, my entire family and I have never collaborated
with enemy states. Only on this issue, I request the central government
to investigate and examine the facts and draw conclusions based on truth...
Li Lisan
June 22, 1967 [13]
While Mao Zedong’s philosophy of struggle
eventually dragged China into an unprecedented catastrophe, this kind of
political campaign and the inner-party struggle, which is widespread once
“every seven or eight years,” have ensured the survival of the CCP. Every
time there was a campaign, a minority of five percent would be persecuted,
and the remaining 95 percent would be brought to an obedient adherence
to the Party’s basic line, thereby enhancing the Party organization’s cohesive
force and destructive capacity. These struggles also eliminated those “faltering”
members who were not willing to give up their conscience, and attacked
any force that dared to resist. Through this mechanism of struggle, those
CCP members who have the greatest desire for struggle and are best at using
the methods of hoodlums have gained control. The CCP cult leaders are all
fearless people rich in the experience of struggle and full of the Party
spirit. Such brutal struggle also gives those who have experienced it a
“blood lesson” and violent brainwashing. At the same time, it continuously
energizes the CCP, further strengthening its desire for struggle, ensuring
its survival, and preventing it from becoming a temperate group that gives
up the struggle.
This kind of party nature required by
the CCP has come precisely from the CCP’s cult nature. In order to realize
its goal, the CCP is determined to break away from all traditional principles,
and use all means to fight unhesitatingly with any force that hinders it.
Therefore it needs to train and enslave all its members to become the Party’s
heartless, unjust and faithless tool. This nature of the CCP originates
from its hatred toward human society and traditions, its delusional self-evaluation,
and its extreme selfishness and contempt for other people’s lives. In order
to achieve its so-called ideal, the CCP used violence at all costs to smash
the world and eliminate all dissidents. Such an evil cult would meet with
opposition from people of conscience, so it must eliminate people’s conscience
and benevolent thoughts to make people believe in its evil doctrine. Therefore,
in order to ensure its survival, the CCP first of all must destroy people’s
conscience, benevolent thoughts and moral standards, turning people into
tame slaves and tools. According to the CCP’s logic, the Party’s life and
interest override everything else; they even override the collective interest
of all Party members, thus any individual Party member must be prepared
to sacrifice for the Party.
Looking at the CCP’s history, individuals
who retained the mindset of traditional intellectuals like Chen Duxiu and
Qu Qiubai, or who still cared about people’s interests like Hu Yaobang
and Zhao Ziyang, or who are determined to be clean officials and bring
real service to the people such as Zhu Rongji - no matter how much they
contributed to the Party, and no matter how devoid of personal ambitions
they were, they were inevitably purged, cast aside, or restricted by the
Party’s interests and discipline.
The sense of Party nature or the aptitude
for the Party that was fostered in their bones over many years of struggle
often made them compromise and surrender in critical moments, because in
their subconscious, the Party’s survival is the highest interest. They
would rather sacrifice themselves and watch the evil force within the Party
commit murder, than challenge the Party’s survival with their conscientious
and compassionate thoughts. This is precisely the result of the CCP’s mechanism
of struggle: it turns good people into tools that it uses, and uses the
Party nature to limit and even eliminate human conscience to the greatest
extent. Dozens of the CCP’s “line struggles” brought down more than 10
top-level Party leaders or designated successors; none of the top Party
leaders came to a good end. Although Mao Zedong had been the king for 43
years, shortly after he died, his wife and nephew were put in jail, which
was cheered by the entire Party as a great victory of Maoism. Is this a
comedy or a farce?
After the CCP seized political power,
there were unceasing political campaigns, from inner-party fights to struggles
outside the Party. This was the case during the Mao Zedong era, and is
still the case in the post-Mao era of “reform and openness.” In the 1980’s,
when people just began to have a slight bit of freedom in their thinking,
the CCP launched the campaign of “Opposition to Bourgeois Liberalization,”
and proposed “the Four Fundamental Principles” [14] in order to maintain
its absolute leadership. In 1989, the students who peacefully asked for
democracy were bloodily suppressed because the CCP does not allow democratic
aspirations. The 1990’s witnessed a rapid increase in Falun Gong practitioners
who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, but they were met
with genocidal persecution beginning in 1999, because the CCP cannot tolerate
human nature and benevolent thoughts. It must use violence to destroy people’s
conscience and ensure its own power. Since entering the 21st century, the
Internet has connected the world together, but the CCP has spent great
sums of money in setting up network blockades to trap online liberals,
because the CCP greatly fears people freely obtaining information. |
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VI. The Degeneration
of the Evil Cult of the CCP |
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The CCP evil cult essentially rules
in opposition to human nature and the principles of heaven. The CCP is
known for its arrogance, self-importance, selfishness, and brutal, unrestrained
acts. It consistently brings disasters to the country and the people, yet
it never admits its mistakes, and would never reveal its true nature to
the people. The CCP has never hesitated to change its slogans and labels,
which are regarded by the CCP as the means to maintain its control. It
will do anything to keep in power with total disregard for morality, justice
and human life.
The institutionalization and socialization
of this evil cult are bound to lead to its collapse. As a result of the
centralization of power, public opinion has been silenced and all possible
monitoring mechanisms have been destroyed, leaving no force to stop the
CCP from sliding into corruption and disintegration
Today’s CCP has become the largest ruling
“party of embezzlement and corruption” in the world. According to official
statistics in China, among the 20 million officials, officers or cadres
in the Party or government over the past 20 years, eight million have been
found guilty of corruption and disciplined or punished based on party or
government regulations. If the unidentified corrupt officials are also
taken into account, the corrupt party and government officials are estimated
to be at over two thirds, of whom only a small portion have been investigated
and exposed.
Securing material benefits by means
of corruption and extortion has become the strongest coherent force for
the unity of the CCP today. The corrupt officials know that without the
CCP, they would have no opportunity to connive for personal gain, and if
the CCP falls, they would not only lose their power and position, but also
face investigation. In Heaven’s Wrath, a novel that exposes behind-the-scenes
dealings of the CCP officials, the author Chen Fang spelled out the CCP’s
top secret using the mouth of Hao Xiangshou, a deputy director of a municipal
CCP office, “corruption has stabilized our political power.”
The Chinese people see it clearly, “if
we fight corruption, the party will fall; if we do not fight corruption,
the nation will perish.” The CCP, however, will not risk its own doom to
fight corruption. What it will do is to kill a few corrupt individuals
as a token sacrifice for the sake of its image. This prolongs its life
for a few more years at the expense of a small number of corrupt elements.
Today, the only goals of the CCP evil cult are to keep its power and steer
clear from its demise.
In today’s China, ethics and morality
have degenerated beyond recognition. Shoddy products, prostitutes, drugs,
conspiracies between officials and gangs, organized crime syndicates, gambling,
bribery - corruption of every kind is prevalent. The CCP has largely ignored
such moral decay, while many high ranking officials are the bosses in the
back room who are extorting protection fees from people who are afraid.
Cai Shaoqing, an expert studying mafia and crime organizations at Nanjing
University, estimates that the number of organized crime members in China
totals at least one million. Each syndicate figure captured always exposes
some behind–the-scenes corrupt Communists who are government officials,
judges, or police.
The CCP is afraid the Chinese people
might gain a sense of conscience and morality, so it does not dare to allow
the people to have faith in religion or freedom of thought. It uses all
its resources to persecute the good people who have faith, such as the
underground Christians who believe in Jesus and God and the Falun Gong
practitioners who seek to be Truthful, Compassionate and Tolerant. The
CCP is afraid that democracy would end its one-party rule, so it does not
dare to give people political freedom. It acts swiftly to imprison independent
liberals and civil rights activists. It does, however, give people a deviated
freedom. As long as you do not care about politics and do not oppose the
CCP’s leadership, you may let your desires go in any way you want, even
if it means you do wicked, unethical things. As a result the CCP is deteriorating
dramatically and social morality in China is experiencing an alarmingly
sharp decline.
“Blocking the road to heaven and opening
the gate to hell” best describes how the evil cult of the CCP has devastated
Chinese society today. |
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VII. Reflections
on the Evil Rule of the CCP |
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What Is the Communist Party?
This seemingly simple question has no
simple answers. Under the pretense of being “for the people” and in the
guise of a political party, the Communist Party has indeed deceived millions
of people. And yet it is not a political party in the ordinary sense, but
a harmful and evil cult possessed by an evil specter. The Communist Party
is a living being who manifests in this world through the Party organizations.
What truly controls the Communist Party is the evil specter that first
entered it, and it is that evil specter that determines the evil nature
of the Communist Party.
The leaders of the Communist Party,
while acting as the gurus of the cult, serve only as the mouthpiece of
the evil specter and the Party. When their will and purpose are in line
with the Party and can be used by it, they will be chosen as leaders. But
when they can no longer meet the needs of the Party, they will be ruthlessly
overthrown. The mechanism of struggle of the Party makes sure that only
the craftiest, the most evil, and the toughest ones will hold steadily
to the position of guru of the Communist Party. A dozen or so ranking party
leaders have fallen from grace, which proves the truth of this argument.
In fact, the top leaders of the Party are walking on a very narrow tight
rope. They can either break away from the Party line and leave a good name
in history, as Gorbachev did, or be victimized by the Party like many general
secretaries of the Party.
The people are the targets of the Party’s
enslavement and oppression. Under the Party’s rule, the people have no
rights to reject the Party. Instead, they are forced to accept the Party’s
leadership and fulfill the obligation to sustain the Party. They are also
subjected to regular cult type brainwashing under the threat of coercion
from the Party. The CCP forces the whole nation to believe in and sustain
this evil cult. This is rarely seen in the world today, and we have to
recognize the CCP’s unmatchable skill in such oppression.
The party members are a physical mass
that has been used to fill up the body of the Party. Many among them are
honest and kind, and may even be quite accomplished in their public life.
These are the people the CCP likes to recruit, since their reputation and
competence may be used to serve the Party. Many others, out of their desire
to become an official and enjoy a higher social status, would work hard
to join the Party and aid the evil being. There are also those who chose
to join the Party because they want to accomplish something in their lives
and realized that under the Communist rule they could not do so unless
they joined the Party. Some joined the Party because they wanted the allocation
of an apartment or simply wanted a better image. Thus among the tens of
millions of Party members, there are both good and bad people. Regardless
of motives, once you swear your allegiance in front of the Party’s flag,
willingly or otherwise, that means you have voluntarily devoted yourself
to the Party. You will then go through the brainwashing process by participating
in the weekly political studies. A significant number of Party members
will have little if any of their own thoughts left and would be easily
controlled by the evil specter of the CCP host body as a result of the
indoctrination by the Party. These people will function within the Party
like the cells of a human body, and work non-stop for the Party’s existence,
even though they themselves are also part of the population enslaved by
the Party. Sadder still, after the bondage of the “party nature” is imposed
on you, it becomes very hard to take it off. Once you show your human side,
you will be purged or persecuted. You cannot withdraw from the Party on
your own even if you want to, for the Party, with its entrance-yes and
exit-no policy, would regard you as a traitor. That is why people often
reveal a dual-nature: in their political life the nature of the Communist
Party, and in their daily life human nature.
The Party cadres are a group that retains
power among Party members. Though they may have choices between good and
bad and make their own decisions on specific occasions, at specific times,
and specific events, they, as a whole, have to follow the will of the Party.
The mandate dictates “the whole Party obeys the Central Committee.” The
Party cadres are the leaders at different levels; they are the Party’s
backbones. They too are merely tools for the Party. They, too, have been
deceived, used and victimized during the past political movements. The
CCP’s underlying criterion is to test whether you are following the right
guru and are sincere in your devotion.
Why Do People Remain Unaware?
The CCP has acted viciously and wickedly
throughout its more than 50-year rule over China. But why do the Chinese
people lack a realistic understanding of the CCP’s evil nature? Is it because
the Chinese are dumb? No. The Chinese constitute one of the wisest nations
in the world and boast a rich traditional culture and heritage of 5000
years. Yet the Chinese people are still living under the CCP’s rule, completely
afraid of expressing their discontent. The key lies in the mind-control
practiced by the CCP.
If the Chinese people enjoyed freedom
of expression and could debate openly the merits and demerits of the CCP,
we could imagine the Chinese would have long ago seen through the evil
nature of the CCP and freed themselves from the influence of this evil
cult. Unfortunately, the Chinese people lost their freedom of expression
and thought over half a century ago with the advent of the CCP’s rule.
The purpose behind persecution of the rightists among the intellectuals
in 1957 was to restrain free expression and to control people’s minds.
In a society so lacking fundamental freedoms, most of the youth who had
wholeheartedly studied the works of Marx and Engels during the Cultural
Revolution have ironically been labeled as an “anti-Party clique” and are
subsequently persecuted. Discussing the CCP’s rights and wrongs was simply
out of the question.
Not many Chinese would even dare to
think of calling the CCP an evil cult. However, were that assertion made,
those who have lived in China would not find it hard to discover strong
evidence supporting the argument, from both their own experience and those
of their family and friends.
The Chinese people have not only been
deprived of freedom of thought, they have also been indoctrinated with
the teachings and culture of the Party. Thus, all that people could hear
have been the praises of the Party, and their minds have been impoverished
of any thought other than ideas that reinforce the CCP. Take the Tiananmen
massacre for example. When shots were fired on June 4th, 1989, many people
instinctively ran to hide in the bushes. Moments later, despite the risks,
they came bravely out of hiding and sang “The Internationale” together.
These Chinese were indeed courageous, innocent and respectable, yet why
did they sing “The Internationale,” the Communist anthem, when confronted
with the Communist killing? The reason is simple. Educated in the Party’s
culture, all the pitiable people know is Communism. Those in Tiananmen
Square did not know any other songs than “The Internationale” and a few
others that praise the Communist Party.
What Is the Way Out?
The CCP has been moving towards its
complete doom. Sadly, it is still trying to tie its fate to the Chinese
nation before its demise.
The dying CCP is apparently weakening
and its control over people’s minds is loosening. With the advance of telecommunications
and the Internet, the CCP is finding it difficult to control information
and suppress expression. As the corrupt officials increasingly plunder
and oppress the people, the public is beginning to wake up from their illusions
about the CCP, and many of them have started to exercise civil disobedience.
The CCP has not only failed to achieve its goal of increased ideological
control in its persecution of Falun Gong, but also further weakened itself
while revealing its absolute ruthlessness. This opportune moment has made
people reconsider the CCP, paving the way for the Chinese nation to free
itself from the ideological bondage and completely break away from the
control of the Communist evil specter.
Having lived under the evil rule of
the CCP for over 50 years, the Chinese people do not need a violent revolution;
rather, they need redemption of their souls. This can be achieved through
self-help, and the first step towards that goal is to become aware of the
evil nature of the CCP.
The day will come when people cast aside
the Party’s organizations that are attached to the state apparatus, allowing
the social systems to function independently, backed up by the core forces
of the society. With the passing of a dictatorial Party organization, the
efficiency of the government will be improved and enhanced. And that day
is right around the corner. In fact, as early as the 1980’s, the reformers
inside the Party advocated the idea of “separating the Party from the government,”
in an attempt to exclude the Party from the government. The reform efforts
from within the CCP have proven to be inadequate and unsuccessful, because
the ideology of “the absolute leadership of the Party” has not been totally
rejected.
The Party culture is the environment
necessary for the survival of the communist evil cult. Removing the CCP’s
possession of people’s minds may prove to be more difficult than clearing
out the CCP’s possession of state administrations, but such a removal is
the only way truly to uproot the evil of communism. This can be achieved
only through the efforts of the Chinese people themselves. With their minds
set right and human nature returned to its original state, the public would
regain its morality and succeed in a transition to a decent non-Communist
society. The cure for this evil possession lies in the recognition of the
evil specter’s nature and harmfulness, eradicating it from people’s minds,
and clearing it out, so that it has no place to hide. The Communist Party
stresses ideological control, since it is nothing but an ideology itself.
That ideology will dissipate when all Chinese reject the Communist falsehood
in their minds, actively wipe out the Party culture, and rid their own
mentalities and lives of the influences from the communist evil cult. As
people save themselves, the CCP will disintegrate.
Nations ruled by Communists are associated
with poverty, totalitarianism, and persecution. There are very few such
nations left, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. Their days
are numbered.
With the wisdom of the Chinese people,
inspired by the historical glory of the Chinese nation, a China freed from
the evil possession of communism will be a promising nation. |
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The CCP no longer believes in communism.
Its soul has died, but its shadow remains. It has inherited only the ‘skin’
of communism, but still manifests the nature of an evil cult: arrogance,
conceit and selfishness, and indulgence in wanton destructiveness. The
CCP has inherited the Communist denial of the law of heaven, and its rejection
of human nature has remained unchanged.
Today, the CCP continues to rule China
with the methods of struggle mastered over the years, using its close-knit
organizational system coupled with the ruling form of “Party possession,”
as well as evil propaganda that functions as a state-religion. The six
features of the Communist Party outlined previously place today’s CCP firmly
within the definition of an “evil cult”; it does no good, only evil.
As it nears death, this Communist evil
cult is accelerating the pace of its corruption and degeneration. What
is most troublesome is that it is stubbornly doing what it can to take
the Chinese nation with it into an abyss of corruption and degeneration.
The Chinese need to help themselves;
they need to reflect, and they need to shake off the CCP. |
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Notes:
[1] “The leopard has died, but its skin
is still left” is from the ancient Chinese book of prophecy, the Plum
Blossom Poem by Shao Yong (1011-1077). The leopard here refers to the
geographic territory of the former Soviet Union, which indeed resembles
a running leopard in shape. With the collapse of the former Soviet Union,
the essence of the communist system has disintegrated, leaving only the
“skin” (the form), which the Chinese Communist Party inherited.
[2] Constitution of the People's Republic
of China (official translation, 1999).
[3] The “AB Corps” incident refers to
the “Anti-Bolshevik Corps” operation in 1930, when Mao ordered the killing
of thousands of Party members, Red Army soldiers, and innocent civilians
in Jiangxi province in an attempt to consolidate his power in the CCP-controlled
areas.
[4] From Mao’s “Report on an Investigation
of the Peasant Movement in Hunan” (1927).
[5] Mount Tai (Taishan) is the first
of five famous mountains in Shandong Province, China. It has been a UN
world heritage site since 1987.
[6] The Land Enclosure Movement relates
to a dark side of the economic reforms of China. Similar to the industrial
revolution in England (1760-1850), agricultural lands in today’s China
have been demarcated to build various economic zones at all levels (county,
city, provincial and state). As a result of the land enclosure, Chinese
farmers have been losing their land. In the cities, residents in older
city and town districts were frequently forced to relocate so as to vacate
the land for commercial development with minimal compensation for the residents.
More information is available at: http://www.uglychinese.org/enclosure.htm.
[7] Lin Zhao, a Beijing University student
majoring in journalism, was classified as a rightist in 1957 for her independent
thinking and outspoken criticism of the communist movement. She was charged
with conspiracy to overthrow the people’s democratic dictatorship and arrested
in 1960. In 1962, she was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment. She was
killed by the CCP on April 29, 1968 as a counter-revolutionary.
Zhang Zhixin was an intellectual who
was tortured to death by the CCP during the Great Cultural Revolution for
criticizing Mao’s failure in the Great Leap Forward and being outspoken
in telling the truth. Prison guards stripped off her clothes many times,
handcuffed her hands to her back and threw her into male prison cells to
let male prisoners gang rape her until she became insane. The prison feared
she would shout slogans to protest when she was being executed, so they
cut off her throat before her execution.
[8] The “February revolution” refers
to the Russian bourgeois revolution in February 1917, which took the throne
of the Tsar.
[9] The October Revolution, also known
as the Bolshevik Revolution, was led by Lenin and occurred in October of
1917. The revolution murdered the revolutionaries of the capitalist class
who had overthrown the Tsar, thus strangling Russia’s bourgeois revolution.
[10] Both the “Mari Incident” and the
“April 12th Massacre” refer to the Kuomintang’s attacks on the CCP. The
“Mari Incident” happened on May 21, 1927, in Changsha City of Hunan province.
The “April 12th Massacre” occurred on April 12, 1927 in Shanghai. In both
cases, some CCP members and pro-CCP activists were attacked, arrested or
killed.
[11] Liu Di, a political officer of
the 20th Red Army who was accused of being a member of “AB Corps,” led
a revolt in Futian charging Li Shaojiu as a counter-revolutionary. They
took over the control of Futian city and released more than 100 arrested
for the “AB Corps,” and shouted the “Down with Mao Zedong” slogan.
[12] Peng Dehuai (1898-1974): Communist
Chinese general and political leader. Peng was the chief commander in the
Korean War, vice-premier of the State Council, Politburo member, and Minister
of Defense from 1954-1959. He was removed from his official posts after
disagreeing with Mao’s Leftist approaches at the CCP’s Lushan Plenum in
1959.
[13] From “Li Lisan: The Person for
Whom Four Memorial Services Have Been Held.”
[14] The four principles are: socialist
path, dictatorship of the proletariat, the CCP’s leadership, and Marxism-Leninism
and Mao Zedong Thought. |
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