Editorial: Communism, greatest scam of the century | Apple Daily HK
Cai Xia, former professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was recently interviewed by an American media and revealed how she felt when she attended the dinners with the “Hereditary Red” (second generation of founding members or important figures of the CCP) in mainland China. Cai Xia said that those Hereditary Red have, in fact, much more depth in their reflections than what outsiders think.
According to Cai Xia, when the topic of reflection is discussed, some suggested the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre event, to which some said it was not enough, and ought to go back to the earlier reform and opening up in 1978; some said it would not work, and that it should begin from the Cultural Revolution in 1966; others said that it would make sense to start from 1956, when the Eighth National People’s Congress (NPC) of the CCP emphasized internal party democracy; some suggested going from 1949, when the CCP founded the PRC; and finally someone said that the true reflection must begin from the day the CCP was founded in 1921.
What the Hereditary Red said about reflections should really be about the reflection of the CCP, not the reflection of the Chinese people. What the Chinese people ought to reflect on is not from 1921, but starting from the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, when the world fell into chaos, the West infiltrated, and the dismantling of the Confucian orthodoxy. At that time, the Chinese were confused by the notion of “Chinese learning as fundamental structures; Western learning for practical uses,” and amidst desperation, Marxist-Leninist ideals swooped in. The “ideal” of armed revolution to liberate all mankind is in line with the historical cycles of the Chinese conquering the world and presiding over the world. Therefore Marxist-Leninist was hugely popular, and blessed by the times, the CCP won over and eventually took the regime.
Chinese people always make the worst decision at the worst time. This is the fate of our nation, and therefore we pay a more painful historical price than any other nation.
In the early days of the CCP, Chinese people regarded Marxism-Leninism as the last straw. It was a time when the majority of intellectuals joined the CCP and embraced the noble ideals of saving the poor, struggling people from the most critical dangers. Out of desperation, the Marxist theoretical shell was borrowed to wrap around the Leninist proletarian dictatorship core, into the mix was the essence of thousand years of Chinese feudal orthodoxy, and out came a packaged ideal of socialism sailing under false colors. The situation is similar to the belief of God during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It was very trendy on the surface, but underneath it all was the Chinese thousand-year feudal concept that was at work.
After the establishment of the CCP, Mao Zedong banked on his personal will and aspirations to fight against the world, sacrificed the people, nationalized the means of production, adopted the peasant-style ignorance for the economy, and eventually led to a great famine. Old Mao was not one to admit defeat, and as his last struggle, launched the Cultural Revolution that brought a disaster to the world and almost blew up the CCP’s own world, and he was left in eternal infamy.
After the death of Old Mao, Deng Xiaoping set things right by calling it “save China”, when it was in fact “save the CCP”. When the regime was threatened during the June 4th incident, the tanks were deployed. The result of 40 years of reform was the CCP’s own “estrangement” before everything else. It reaped the benefits from a market economy, and fed dozens of powerful families, after which the leftovers were given out to 90 million party members. As for the 1.4 billion Chinese people, they were exploited economically, oppressed politically, censored culturally, and have never been their own masters.
Is Communism still the ideal of the CCP today? If socialism has long diverted from a “distribution to each according to his ability”, how would it have evolved to communism’s “distribution to each according to his needs”? Powerful families reap the benefits from people’s hard work and make tens of billions of dollars. When they do not hesitate to control the people with harsh and violent means, how will they evolve into communism in the lofty, spiritual realm with highly civilized materialism? When the CCP’s high-ranking officials are selfish and unfair, infringing upon state property to collect a wealth of personal riches internally and a group of wives and concubines externally, how will they evolve into a communist world of common prosperity without exploitation and oppression?
Communism has already reached a dead end in this world. The CCP’s dignitaries know it, the Chinese people know it too. Communism is just a rhetoric for the CCP to maintain its dictatorship. Hiding behind the name and guise of Communism, and wrapped around the evil core of dictatorship that is “steady and far-reaching”, Communism is essentially stealing from the national and hurting the people. Chinese people have been shepherd by the CCP “roam the gardens” for 70 years. Now that the gardens have been painted on the walls, and the people are in pain.
If Communism is only attained through oppression and exploitation of the people; if there are no millions of armed forces, sky-high prices to pay for stability, no lies nor violence, socialism will not be able to survive; if the Chinese have experienced 70 years of bloody and teary suffering, the kind that has no end in sight, then what does Communism mean to the Chinese people?
Hongkongers have experienced the profound experience of two systems, from the Pearl of the Orient paradise under the British rule to today’s Communist world of bloodied streets, no one hates Communism more deeply than we do. If the Chinese people want to reflect, of course, they cannot start from 1921, but must start from “Chinese learning as fundamental structures; Western learning for practical uses”. China will only survive through total Westernization, only by completely overthrowing 5,000 years of feudal orthodoxy and surrender to universal values; otherwise, we will never get out of the feudal, despotic bizarre cycle, generation after generation, and never be rid of the misfortune that we have to keep enduring.
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