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Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party - Introduction
More than a decade after the fall of the former Soviet Union and Eastern
European Communist regimes, the international communist movement has been
spurned worldwide. The demise of the Chinese Communist Party is only a matter of
time.
Nevertheless, before its complete collapse, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is
trying to tie its fate to the Chinese nation, with its 5000 years of
civilization. This is a disaster for the Chinese people. The Chinese people now
must face how they should view the CCP, how China may evolve into a society
without the CCP, and how the Chinese people may recover and pass on its
tradition and heritage. How the Chinese people answer these questions is of the
greatest importance, not only for the Chinese people, but for peoples all over
the world.
The Epoch Times is now publishing a special editorial series, “Nine Commentaries
on the Chinese Communist Party.” Before the lid is laid on the coffin of the
CCP, we wish to pass a final judgment on it and on the international Communist
movement, which have brought disaster to mankind for over a century.
Throughout its 80-plus years, everything the CCP has touched has been marred
with lies, wars, famine, tyranny, massacre and terror. Traditional faiths and
values have been violently destroyed. Original ethical concepts and original
social structures have been disintegrated by force. Empathy, love and harmony
have been twisted into struggle and hatred. Veneration and appreciation of the
heaven and earth have been replaced by an arrogant desire to “fight with heaven
and earth.” The result has been a total collapse of social, moral and ecological
systems, and a profound crisis for the Chinese people, and indeed for humanity.
All these calamities have been brought about through the planning, organization,
and control of the CCP.
As a famous Chinese poem goes, “Deeply I sigh in vain for the falling flowers.”
The end is near for the Communist regime, which is barely struggling to survive.
The days before its collapse are numbered. The Epoch Times believes the time is
now ripe, before the CCP’s total demise, for a comprehensive look back, in order
to expose fully to the Chinese people and the world the unprecedented evil the
CCP has done. Like a giant cult, the CCP has depended on its ability to control
the minds of a great nation through a combination of force and fraud. We hope
that those who are still deceived by the CCP will now see it clearly, purge its
influence from their minds, extricate themselves from its control, and jump out
of the shackles of terror, abandoning for good all illusions about it.
The CCP’s rule is the darkest and the most ridiculous page in Chinese history.
Among its unending list of crimes, the vilest must be its persecution of Falun
Gong. In persecuting “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance” Jiang Zemin set the
CCP against conscience itself. The Epoch Times believes that by understanding
the true history of the CCP, we can help prevent such tragedies from ever
recurring.
The titles of the “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party” are:
1. What is the Communist Party?
2. The Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party
3. The Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party
4. The Chinese Communist Party Opposes Nature
5. The Collusion of Jiang Zemin with the CCP to Persecute Falun Gong
6. The Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture
7. The Chinese Communist Party’s History of Killing
8. How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult
9. The Chinese Communist Party, a Band of Scoundrels
The Epoch Times Editorial Board
Epoch Times Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party - Part 1
What Is the Communist Party?
Foreword
For over five thousand years, the Chinese people have created a splendid
civilization on land nurtured by the Yellow River and Yangtze River. During this
long period of time, dynasties have come and gone, and the Chinese culture has
waxed and waned. Grand and moving stories have played out on the historical
stage of China.
The year 1840, the year commonly considered by historians as the beginning of
China’s contemporary era, marked the start of China’s journey from tradition to
modernization. Chinese civilization experienced four major episodes of challenge
and response. The first three episodes include the invasion of Beijing by the
English-French allied force in the early 1860s, the Sino-Japanese war in 1894,
and the Russo-Japanese war in China’s northeast in 1906. To these three episodes
of challenge, China responded with the Westernization movement, which was marked
by the importation of modern goods and weapons, institutional reforms through
the Reform Movement of 1898 and the attempt at the end of the late Qing Dynasty
to establish constitutional rule, and later, the Democratic Revolution of 1911.
At the end of the First World War, China, though it emerged victorious, was not
listed among the stronger powers at that time. Many Chinese believed that the
first three episodes of response had failed. The May-Fourth Movement would lead
to the fourth attempt at responding to previous challenges and culminate in the
complete westernization of Chinese culture through the communist movement and
its extreme revolution.
This article concerns the impact on the civilization of China of the communist
movement and the Communist Party. Looking at the history of China’s last 160
years, nearly one hundred million people have died unnatural deaths. After all
that has happened to China’s traditional culture and civilization, whether
chosen by the Chinese or imposed on China from the outside, what have been the
consequences?
I. Relying on Violence and Terror to Gain and Maintain Power
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare
that their ends can be attained only by the violent overthrow of all existing
social conditions.” This quote is taken from the concluding paragraph of the
Communist Manifesto, the Communist Party’s principal document. Violence is the
one and only means by which the Communist Party gained power. This character
trait has been passed on to all subsequent forms of the Party that have arisen
since its birth.
In fact, the world’s first Communist Party was established many years after Karl
Marx’s death. After the October Revolution in 1917, the “All Russian Communist
Party (Bolshevik)” (later to be known as the “Communist Party of the Soviet
Union”) was born. This party grew out of the use of violence against “class
enemies” and was maintained through violence against Party members and ordinary
citizens deemed traitors. During Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, the Soviet
Communist party slaughtered over 20 million so-called spies and traitors, and
those thought to have different opinions.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first started as a branch of the Soviet
Communist Party in the Third Communist International. Therefore, it naturally
inherited the willingness to kill. During China’s first Communist-Kuomintang
civil war between 1927 and 1936, the population in Jiangxi province dropped from
over 20 million to about 10 million. The damage wrought by the use of violence
can be seen from these figures alone.
Using violence may be unavoidable when attempting to gain political power, but
there has never been a regime as eager to kill as the CCP, especially during
otherwise peaceful periods. Since 1949, the number of deaths caused by CCP
violence has surpassed the total deaths during the wars waged between 1927 and
1949.
An excellent example of the Communist Party’s use of violence is its support of
the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. Under the Khmer Rouge a quarter of Cambodia’s
population, many of them of Chinese descent, were murdered. China still blocks
the international community from putting the Khmer Rouge on trial, so as to
cover up the CCP’s role in the genocide.
The CCP has close connections with some of the world’s most brutal political
movements and regimes. In addition to the Khmer Rouge, these include the
Communist Parties in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Burma, Laos,
and Nepal- all of which have been supported by the CCP. Many leaders in these
Communist Parties are Chinese; some of them are still hiding in China to this
day.
Other Maoist-based Communist Parties include South America’s Shining Path and
the Japanese Red Army, whose atrocities have been condemned by the world
community.
One of the theories the communists employ is social Darwinism. The Communist
Party applies Darwin’s inter-species competition to human relationships and
human history, maintaining that class struggle is the only driving force for
societal development. Struggle, therefore, became the primary “belief” of the
Communist party, a tool in gaining and maintaining political control. Mao’s
famous words plainly betray this logic of the survival of the fittest: “With 800
million people, how can it work without struggle?”
Another of Mao’s claims is similarly famous: that the Cultural Revolution should
be conducted “every seven or eight years.” The CCP has used force repeatedly to
terrify the Chinese people into submission. Every struggle and movement served
as an exercise in terror, so that the Chinese people trembled in their hearts
and gradually became enslaved under the CCP’s control.
Today, terrorism has become the main enemy of the civilized and free world. The
CCP’s exercise of violent terror, thanks to the apparatus of the state, has been
larger in scale, much longer lasting, and its results more devastating. Today,
in the twenty-first century, we should not forget this inherited character of
the Communist Party, since what the Party has been will determine what future it
may have.
II. Using Lies to Justify Violence
The level of civilization can be measured by the degree to which violence is
used in a regime. By resorting to the use of violence, the Communist regimes
clearly represent a huge step backward in human civilization. Unfortunately, the
Communist Party has been seen as progressive by those who believe that violence
is a necessary means to societal advancement.
This acceptance of violence has to be viewed through the Communist Party’s
second inherited character: the employment of deception and lies.
“Since a young age, we have thought of the US as a lovable country. We believe
this is partly due to the fact that the US has never occupied another country,
nor has it launched any attacks on China. More fundamentally, the Chinese people
hold good impressions of the US based on its democratic and open-minded
character.”
This excerpt came from an editorial published on July 4th, 1947 in the CCP’s
official newspaper Xinhua Ribao, A mere three years later, the CCP sent soldiers
to fight American troops in North Korea, painting the Americans as the most evil
imperialists in the world. Every Chinese from mainland China would be surprised
to read this editorial written over 50 years ago. The CCP has banned all
publications quoting similar early passages.
Since coming to power, the CCP has employed lies in its elimination of
counter-revolutionaries, the “cooperation” of public and private enterprises,
the anti-rightist movement, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square
massacre, and most recently, the persecution of Falun Gong. The most infamous
instance was the persecution of intellectuals in 1957. The CCP called on the
intellectuals to offer their opinions, but then persecuted them as “rightists,”
using their own speeches as evidence of their “crimes.” When some criticized the
persecution as a conspiracy, or “plot in the dark,” Mao claimed publicly: “That
is not a plot in the dark, but a stratagem in the open.”
Deception and lies have played a very important role in the CCP’s gaining and
maintaining control. China enjoys the longest and most complete history in the
world, and the Chinese, especially Chinese intellectuals, have long held a
belief in using history to assess current reality and even to achieve personal
spiritual improvement. To make history serve the current regime, the CCP has
made a practice of altering and concealing historical truth. The CCP in its
propaganda and publications has rewritten history for periods from as early as
the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC) and the Warring States period (475-221
BC) to as recently as the Cultural Revolution. Such historical alterations have
continued for the more than 50 years since 1949, and all efforts to restore
historical truth have been blocked by the CCP.
When violence becomes too weak to sustain control, the CCP resorts to deception
and lies, which serve to justify and mask the rule by violence.
We must admit that deception and lies were not invented by the Communist Party,
but are an age-old indecency that the Communist Party has utilized without
shame. The CCP promised land to the peasants, factories to the workers, freedom
and democracy to the intellectuals, and peace to all. None of these promises has
been realized. One generation of the Chinese died deceived and another
generation continues to be cheated. This is the biggest sorrow of the Chinese
people, the most unfortunate aspect of the Chinese nation.
III. Ever-changing Principles
The Communist Party typically alters its principles frequently. Since its
establishment, the CCP has held 16 national representative meetings and modified
the Party bylaws 16 times. In over five decades of control, the CCP has made
five major modifications to the country’s Constitution.
The ideal of the Communist Party is social equality leading to a communist
society. However, communist-controlled China has experienced rapidly expanding
economic inequalities. Many CCP members have become rich, while millions of
Chinese citizens are mired in poverty.
The guiding theories of the CCP have evolved from Marxism to Maoism, now
including Deng’s thoughts and Jiang’s “Three Represents.” Marxism and Maoism are
not at all compatible with Deng’s and Jiang’s ideologies- they are opposite to
them. The hodgepodge of communist theories employed by the CCP is indeed a
rarity in human history.
The Communist Party’s evolving principles have largely contradicted one another.
From the idea of a global integration transcending the nation-state to today’s
extreme nationalism, from eliminating all private ownership and all exploitative
classes to today’s notion of promoting capitalists to join the party,
yesterday’s principles have become reversed in today’s politics, with further
change expected tomorrow. No matter how often the CCP changes its principles,
the goal remains clear: gaining and maintaining power, and sustaining absolute
control of the society.
In the history of the CCP, there have been more than ten movements that are
“life and death” struggles. In reality, all of these struggles have coincided
with the transfer of power following changes of basic Party principles.
Every change in principles has come from an inevitable crisis faced by the CCP,
threatening its legitimacy and survival. Whether it be collaborating with the
Kuomintang Party, pro-US foreign policy, economic reform and market expansion,
or promoting nationalism—each of these decisions occurred at a moment of crisis,
and all had to do with the solidifying of power. Every cycle of a group
suffering persecution followed by reversal of that persecution has been
connected with changes in the basic principles of the CCP.
A western proverb has it that truths are sustainable and lies mutable. There is
wisdom in this saying.
IV. How Party Nature Takes the Place of Human Nature
The CCP is a Leninist authoritarian regime. Since the inception of the party,
three basic lines have been established, i.e., the political line, the
intellectual line, and the organization line. The political line refers to
setting up goals. The intellectual line refers to the Communist Party’s
philosophical foundation. The organization line refers to how the goals are
achieved. Both CCP members and those ruled by the CCP first and foremost receive
commands; they are required to obey unconditionally. This is the content of the
organization line.
In China, most people know about the double personalities of CCP members. In
private settings, CCP members are ordinary human beings with feelings of
happiness, anger, sorrow and joy. They possess ordinary human beings’ merits and
shortcomings. They may be parents, husbands, wives, or friends. But placed above
human nature and feelings is the Party nature, which, according to the
requirements of the Communist Party, transcends humanity. Thus, humanity becomes
relative and changeable, while Party nature becomes absolute, beyond any doubt
or challenge.
During the Cultural Revolution, fathers and sons tortured each other, husbands
and wives struggled with each other, students and teachers reported on each
other, and mothers and daughters treated each other as enemies. Party nature
motivated the conflicts and hatred. During the early period of CCP rule, some
high-ranking CCP officials were helpless as their family members were labeled as
class enemies. This, again, was driven by Party nature.
The power of the Party nature over the individual results from the CCP’s
life-long course of indoctrination. This training starts in kindergarten, where
party-sanctioned answers to questions are rewarded, answers that do not comply
with common sense or a child’s human nature. From primary school to college,
students receive political education that follows the principles of the
Communist Party. Non-conformers are not allowed to pass and graduate.
A Party member must remain consistent with the Party line when speaking
publicly, no matter how he feels privately. The organizational structure of the
CCP is a gigantic pyramid, with the central power on top controlling the entire
hierarchy. This unique structure is one of the most important features of the
CCP regime, one that helps produce absolute conformity.
Today, the CCP has degenerated into a political entity struggling to maintain
self-interest. It no longer pursues any of the lofty goals of communism.
However, the organizational structure of communism remains, and its demand for
unconditional conformity has not changed. This party, situating itself above
humanity and human nature, removes any organizations or persons deemed
detrimental to its own power, be it ordinary citizens or high-ranking CCP
officials.
V. An Evil Specter Opposes Nature and Human Nature
Unlike the communist regime, non-communist societies, even those suffering under
rigid totalitarian rule and a dictatorship, often allow some degree of
self-organization and self-determination. Ancient Chinese society was in fact
ruled according to a binary structure. In rural regions clans were the center of
an independent social organization, while urban areas were organized around the
guild. The top-down government did not extend below the county level.
The Nazi regime, whose cruelty equals that of the Communist Party, still allowed
rights to private property. The communist regimes eradicated any forms of social
organization independent of the Party, replacing them with highly centralized
power structures.
If bottom-up social structures that allow for the self-determination of the
individual or the group occur naturally, then the communist regime is
anti-nature in its essence.
The Communist Party does not hold universal standards for human nature. The
concepts of good and evil, as well as all laws and rules, are arbitrarily
manipulated. Communists do not allow murder, except for those categorized as
enemies by the Communist Party. Filial piety is welcomed, except for those
parents deemed class enemies. Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and
faithfulness are all good, but not applicable when the Party is not willing or
doesn’t want to consider these traditional virtues. The Communist Party is built
on principles that oppose human nature.
Non-communist societies generally consider humanity’s dual nature of good and
evil; they rely on fixed social contracts to maintain a balance in society. In
communist societies, however, the very concept of human nature is denied, and
neither good nor evil is acknowledged. Eliminating the concepts of good and
evil, according to Marx, serves to completely overthrow the superstructure of
the old society.
The Communist Party does not believe in God, nor does it even respect physical
nature. “Battle with heaven, fight with the earth, struggle against human beings
— life thus lived is full of joy.” This was the motto of the CCP during the
Cultural Revolution. Great suffering was inflicted on the Chinese people and the
land.
The Chinese traditionally believe in the unity of heaven and human beings. Laozi
said in Dao de Jing, "Humans follow the earth, the earth follows heaven, heaven
follows the Dao, and the Dao follows what is natural." Human beings and nature
exist within a harmonious relationship in the continuous cosmos.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx proclaimed that “In 1848, a specter is haunting
Europe- the specter of Communism.” Over a century later, the Communist Party has
revealed itself indeed to be an evil specter -against heaven, the earth, and
human beings. It opposes the nature of the universe.
VI. Some Features of Evil Possession
The Communist Party’s organs themselves never participate in productive or
creative activities. Once they grasp power, they attach themselves to the
people, controlling and manipulating them. They extend their power down to the
most basic unit of society for fear of losing control. They monopolize the
resources of production and extract wealth from the society.
In China, the CCP extends everywhere and controls everything, but nobody has
seen the CCP’s accounting records, only accounting records for the state, local
governments, and enterprises. From the central government to the village
committees in rural areas, the municipal officials are always ranked lower than
the communist cadres. The expenditures of the Party are supplied by the
municipal units and accounted for in the municipal system.
The organization of the CCP gives form to evil. The CCP attaches to every tiny
unit and penetrates deeply into every cell of the Chinese society, thereby
controlling the Chinese people and draining their energy.
This peculiar structure of evil possession has existed in human history in the
past, either partially or temporarily. Never has it operated for so long and
controlled a society so completely as under the rule of the Communist Party.
For this reason, Chinese farmers live in poverty and drudgery. They have to
support the traditional municipal officials as well as the many communist
cadres.
For this reason, Chinese workers are threatened by unemployment. The possessing
CCP has been extracting funds from their factories for many years.
For this reason, Chinese intellectuals find it so difficult to gain intellectual
freedom. In addition to their administrators, there are CCP shadows lingering
everywhere, doing nothing but monitoring people.
According to modern political science, power comes from three main sources:
force, wealth, and knowledge. The Communist Party has never hesitated to use
violence to rob people of their property. More importantly, they have deprived
people of their freedoms of speech and of the press. The CCP’s evil possession
controls society so tightly that it can hardly be compared to any other regime
in the world.
VII. Getting Rid of the CCP’s Control
All things under heaven experience a life cycle of birth, maturity, decay, and
death.
Since Marx revealed the haunting by the communist specter more than a century
ago, the Communist Party spread around the world like an epidemic, killing
hundreds of millions of lives and taking away property and freedom.
The basic tenet of the Communist Party is to take away all private property so
as to eliminate the exploitative class. Private property is the basis of all
social rights, and often carries national culture. People who are robbed of
private property also lose the freedom of mind and spirit. They may further lose
the freedom to acquire social and political rights.
Facing a crisis of survival, the CCP was forced to reform China’s economy in the
1980s. Some of the rights to private property were restored to the people. This
created a hole in the massive CCP machine of precise control. This hole has
become enlarged as the CCP’s members strive to accumulate their private
fortunes.
The CCP parasite, supported by force, deception and the frequent change of
principles, has now shown signs of decay, nervous at every slight disturbance.
It attempts to survive by accumulating more wealth and tightening control, but
these actions only serve to intensify the crisis.
Today’s China appears prosperous, but social conflicts have been built up to a
level never seen before. Using political techniques from the past, the CCP may
attempt some sort of retreat, reversing its previous persecution of the
Tiananmen Square democratic movement, or of Falun Gong, and making another group
its chosen enemy, thereby continuing to exercise the power of terror.
Facing challenges over the past one hundred years, the Chinese nation has
responded by importing weapons, reforming its systems, and enacting extreme and
violent revolutions. Countless lives have been lost, and the Chinese traditional
culture has been abandoned. It appears that the responses have failed. When
agitation and anxiety occupied the Chinese mind, the CCP took the opportunity to
enter the scene, and has controlled this ancient civilization ever since.
In future challenges, the Chinese people will inevitably have to choose again.
No matter how the choice is made, every Chinese citizen must understand that any
lingering hope in the CCP will only worsen the damage done to the Chinese nation
and inject new energy into the possessing CCP.
We must abandon all illusions and make our own observations and decisions. Only
then can we rid ourselves of the nightmarish control by the CCP over the last 50
years. In the name of a free nation, we can reestablish the Chinese civilization
based on respect for human nature and compassion for all.
Epoch Times Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party - Part 2
The Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party
Foreword
According to the book Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters
(Shuowen Jiezi) written by Xu Shen (d. 147 AD), the traditional Chinese
character Dang, meaning “party” or “gang,” consists of two radicals that
correspond to “promote or advocate” and “dark or black” respectively. Putting
the two radicals together, the character means “promoting darkness.” “Party” or
“party member” (which can also be interpreted as “gang” or “gang member”)
carries a derogatory meaning. Confucius said, “I heard that a noble man would
not join a gang (party).” In the Analects (Lunyu), Confucius’ interpretation of
this character explains that people who help one another conceal their crimes
and do bad things are said to be forming a gang (party). It is a synonym for
“gang of scoundrels” and is associated with the implication of ganging up for
selfish purposes.
Why did the Communist Party emerge and eventually seize power in modern China?
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has constantly instilled into the Chinese
people’s minds that history has chosen the CCP, that the people have chosen the
CCP, and that “without the CCP there would be no new China.”
Did the Chinese people choose the Communist Party of their own initiative? Or,
did the Communist Party force its selfish interests and its views upon the
Chinese people? We must find answers from history.
From the late Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic period
(1911-1949), China experienced tremendous external shocks and extensive attempts
at internal reform. Chinese society was in painful turmoil. Many intellectuals
and people with lofty ideals wanted to save the country and its people, but in
the midst of national crisis and chaos, their sense of anxiety grew, leading
first to disappointment and then complete despair. Like people who turn to any
available doctor in times of illness, they looked outside China for their
solutions. When the British and French styles failed, they switched to the
Russian method. Anxious to succeed, they did not hesitate to prescribe the most
extreme remedy for the illness, in the hope that China would quickly become
strong.
The May Fourth movement of 1919 was a thorough reflection of this despair. Some
people advocated anarchism; others proposed to overthrow the doctrines of
Confucius, and still others suggested bringing in foreign culture. In short,
they rejected Chinese traditional culture and opposed the Confucian doctrine of
the middle way. Eager to take a shortcut, they advocated the destruction of
everything traditional. On the one hand the radical members among them did not
have a way to serve the country, and on the other hand they believed firmly in
their own ideals. They felt the world was hopeless, believing that only by
themselves could they find the correct approach to China’s future development.
They were passionate for revolution and violence.
Different experiences led to different theories, principles and paths among
various groups. Eventually a group of people met Communist Party representatives
from the Soviet Union. The idea of "using violent revolution to seize political
power," lifted from the theory of Marxism-Leninism, appealed to their anxious
minds and conformed to their desire to save the country and its people. Hence,
they introduced Communism, a completely foreign concept, into China. Altogether
13 representatives attended the first CCP Congress. Later, some of them died,
some ran away, some worked for the occupying Japanese force and became traitors,
and some quit the CCP to join the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Party, hereafter
referred to as KMT). By 1949 when the CCP came to power, only Mao Zedong (also
spelled Mao Tse Tung) and Dong Biwu still remained of the original 13 Party
members. It is unclear whether the founders of the CCP were aware at the time
that the “deity” they had introduced from the Soviet Union was in reality an
evil specter, and the remedy they sought for strengthening the nation was
actually a deadly poison.
The All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) (later known as the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union), having just won its revolution, was obsessed with
ambitions for China. In 1920, the Soviet Union established the Far Eastern
Bureau in Siberia, a branch of the Third Communist International, or the
Comintern. It was responsible for managing the establishment of a Communist
party in China and other countries. Soon after its establishment, the bureau’s
deputy manager Grigori Voitinsky arrived in Beijing and contacted the Communist
vanguard Li Dazhao. Li arranged for Voitinsky to meet with another Communist
leader, Chen Duxiu, in Shanghai. In August of 1920, Voitinsky, Chen Duxiu, Li
Hanjun, Shen Xuanlu, Yu Xiusong, Shi Cuntong and others began to prepare for the
establishment of the CCP.
In June of 1921, Zhang Tailei arrived at Irkutsk in Siberia, whereupon he
submitted a proposal to the Far Eastern Bureau proposing to establish the CCP as
a branch of the Comintern. On July 23, 1921, under the help of Nikolsky and
Maring from the Far East Bureau, the CCP was officially formed.
The Communist movement was then introduced to China as an experiment, and ever
since, the CCP has set itself above all, conquering all in its path, thereby
bringing endless catastrophe to China.
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I. The CCP Grew by Steadily Accumulating Wickedness
It is not an easy task to introduce a foreign specter such as the Communist
Party, one that is totally incompatible with the Chinese tradition, into China,
a country with a history of 5,000 years of civilization. Throughout the history
of the CCP, from its establishment to its gaining and maintaining political
power, it has gradually become increasingly wicked. In this development the CCP
has made use of the nine inherited character traits that the Communist specter
brought with it: evil, deceit, incitement, unleashing the scum of society,
espionage, robbery, fighting, elimination, and control. Responding to continuous
crises, the CCP has further consolidated and strengthened the means and extent
to which these malignant characteristics have been playing out.
First Inherited Trait: Evil—Putting on the Evil Form of Marxism-Leninism
Marxism initially attracted the Chinese Communists with its declaration to “use
violent revolution to destroy the old state apparatus and to establish a
proletariat dictatorship.” This is precisely the root of evil in Marxism and
Leninism.
Marxist materialism is predicated on the narrow economic concepts of forces of
production, production relations, and surplus value. During the early,
underdeveloped stages of capitalism, Marx made a shortsighted prediction that
capitalism would die and the proletariat would win, which has now been proven
wrong. Marxist-Leninist violent revolution and proletarian dictatorship promote
power-politics and proletarian domination. The Communist Manifesto related the
Communist Party's historical and philosophical basis to class conflict and
struggle. The proletariat broke free from traditional morals and social
relations for the sake of seizing power. Upon their first appearance, the
doctrines of Communism are set in opposition to all tradition.
Human nature universally repels violence. Violence makes people ruthless and
tyrannical. Thus, in all places and all times humanity has fundamentally
rejected the premises of the Communist Party’s theory of violence, a theory that
has no antecedent in any former systems of thought, philosophy, or tradition.
The Communist system of terror fell upon the earth as if from nowhere.
The CCP’s ideology is built on the premise that humans can conquer nature and
transform the world. The Communist Party attracted many people with its ideals
of "emancipating all mankind” and “world unity.” The CCP deceived many people,
especially those who were concerned about the human condition and were eager to
make their own mark in society. Thereafter, these people forgot that there is a
heaven above. Inspired by the beautiful yet misguided notion of “building heaven
on earth,” they despised traditions and looked down upon the lives of others,
which in turn degraded themselves. They did all of this in an attempt to provide
the CCP with praiseworthy service and gain honor.
The Communist Party presented the fantasy of a “Communist paradise” as the
truth, and aroused people’s enthusiasm to fight for it: “For reason thunders new
creation, `Tis a better world in birth.” [1] Employing such an absolute and
incredible idea, the CCP severed the connections between humanity and heaven,
and cut the lifeline that connects the Chinese people to their ancestors and
national traditions. By summoning people to give their lives for Communism, the
CCP strengthened its ability to do harm.
Second Inherited Trait: Deceit—Lying in Order to Confound Good and Bad
Evil must lie. To take advantage of the working class, the CCP conferred upon it
the titles of “the most advanced class,” “selfless class,” “leading class,” and
“pioneers of the proletarian revolution.” When the Communist Party needed the
peasants, it promised “land to the tiller.” Mao applauded the peasants, saying,
“Without the poor peasants there would be no revolution; to deny their role is
to deny the revolution.”[2] When the Communist Party needed help from the
capitalist class, it called them “fellow travelers in the proletarian
revolution” and promised them “democratic republicanism.” When the Communist
Party was almost exterminated by the KMT, it appealed loudly, “Chinese do not
fight Chinese.” Yet what happened? As soon as the anti-Japanese war was over,
the CCP turned full force against the KMT and overthrew its government.
Similarly, the CCP eliminated the capitalist class shortly after taking control
of China, and in the end transformed the peasants and workers into a penniless
proletariat.
The notion of a united front is a typical example of the lies the CCP tells. In
order to win the civil war against the KMT, the CCP, departing from its usual
tactics, adopted a “policy of temporary unification” with its class enemies,
including landlords and rich farmers. On July 20, 1947, Mao Zedong announced
that “Except for a few reactionary elements, we should adopt a more relaxed
attitude towards the landlord class…in order to reduce hostile elements.” After
the CCP gained power, however, the landlords and rich farmers did not escape
genocide.
Saying one thing and doing another is normal for the Communist Party. When the
CCP needed to use the KMT, it argued that the two sides “strive for long-term
coexistence, exercise mutual supervision, be sincere with each other, and share
honor and disgrace.” After seizing power in 1949, however, the CCP eliminated
everyone who spoke up for democracy, labeling them anti-party rightists. Anybody
who disagreed with or refused to conform to the Party’s concepts, words, deeds,
or organization was eliminated. Marx, Lenin and the CCP leaders have all held
that the Communist Party's political power would not be shared with any other
individuals or groups. From the very beginning, Communism clearly carried within
it the gene of dictatorship. It is despotic; the CCP has never coexisted with
any other political parties or groups in a sincere manner. Even during the
so-called “relaxed” period, the CCP’s coexistence with others was at most a
choreographed performance.
History tells us not to believe in any promises the CCP makes, nor to trust that
any of the CCP’s commitments will be fulfilled. To believe the words of the
Communist Party could easily cost one his or her life.
Third Inherited Trait: Incitement—Stirring up Hatred and Inciting Struggle among
the Masses
Deceit often serves to incite hatred. Struggle relies on hatred. Where hatred
does not exist, it can be created.
The deep-rooted patriarchal clan system in the Chinese countryside served as a
fundamental barrier to the Communist Party’s establishment of political power.
The rural society was initially harmonious, and the relationship between the
landowners and tenants was not entirely confrontational. The landowners managed
and rented out land to peasants, who then relied on the land for survival. In
other words, the landowners offered the farmers a means to survive, and in
return the farmers supported the landowners.
This somewhat mutually dependent relationship was twisted by the CCP into
extreme class antagonism and class exploitation. Harmony was turned into
hostility, hatred, and struggle. The reasonable was made to be unreasonable,
order was made to be chaos, and republicanism made to be despotism. The
Communist Party encouraged the denial of private property, murder for profit,
and the slaughter of landlords, rich farmers and their families. Many peasants
were not willing to take the property of others. Some returned at night the
property they took from the landlords during the day, but they were criticized
by CCP work teams in rural regions as having “low class consciousness.”
To incite class hatred, the CCP reduced the Chinese theater to a propaganda
tool. A well-known story of class oppression, the White-Haired Girl, was
originally about a female immortal and had nothing to do with class conflicts.
Under the pens of the military writers, however, it was transformed into a
“modern” drama, opera, and ballet used to incite class hatred.
Inciting the masses to struggle against each other is a classic trick of the
CCP. The CCP created the 95:5 formula of class assignment: 95 percent of the
population was assigned to various classes that could be won over, while the
remaining 5 percent was designated as class enemies. People within the 95
percent were safe, but those within the 5 percent were “struggled” against. Out
of fear and to protect themselves, the people strived to be included in the 95
percent. This resulted in many cases in which people brought harm to others,
even adding insult to injury. The CCP has, through the use of incitement in many
of its political movements, perfected this technique.
Fourth Inherited Trait: Unleashing the Scum of Society—Hoodlums and Social Scum
Form the Ranks of the CCP
Unleashing the scum of society leads to evil, and evil must utilize the scum of
society. Communist revolutions have often made use of the rebellion of hoodlums
and social scum. The “Paris Commune,” for example, actually involved homicide,
arson, and violence led by social scum. Even Marx looked down upon the “lumpen
proletariat.” [3] In the Communist Manifesto, Marx said, “The ‘dangerous class,’
the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of
the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a
proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for
the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.” Peasants, on the other hand,
were considered by Marx and Engels to be unqualified to be any social class
because of their so-called fragmentation and ignorance.
The CCP developed further the dark side of Marx's theory. Mao Zedong said, “The
social scum and hoodlums have always been spurned by the society, but they are
actually the bravest, the most thorough and firmest in the revolution in the
rural areas.”[4] The lumpen proletariat enhanced the violent nature of the CCP.
The word “revolution” in Chinese literally means “taking lives,” which sounds
horrific and disastrous to all good people. However, the party managed to imbue
“revolution” with positive meaning. Similarly, in a debate over the term “lumpen
proletariat” during the Cultural Revolution, the CCP felt that “lumpen” did not
sound good, and so the CCP replaced it with “proletariat” simply.
Another behavior of the scum of society is to play the rascal. When criticized
for being dictators, Party officials would reveal their tendency to bully and
shamelessly pronounce something along the lines of, “You are right, that is
precisely what we are doing. The Chinese experience accumulated through the past
decades requires that we exercise this power of democratic dictatorship. We call
it the ‘people's democratic dictatorship.’”
Fifth Inherited Trait: Espionage—Infiltrate, Deceive, Betray
In addition to cheating, inciting violence, and employing the scum of society,
the technique of espionage and sowing dissension was also used. The CCP was
skillful in infiltration. Decades ago, the “top three” outstanding undercover
agents of the CCP, Qian Zhuangfei, Li Kenong and Hu Beifeng, were in fact
working for Chen Geng, the manager of the Number 2 Spy Branch of the Central
Committee of the CCP. When Qian Zhuangfei was working as a confidential
secretary and trusted subordinate of Xu Enzeng, the director of the
Investigation Office of the KMT, he used the letterhead of the KMT’s
Organization Department to write two letters containing the secret information
of the KMT’s first and second strategic plans to have Jiangxi province encircled
by the KMT troops, and had them hand delivered to Zhou Enlai (also spelled as
Chou En-lai) [5] by Li Kenong. In April 1930, a special double-agent
organization funded by the Central Investigation Branch of the KMT was set up in
the Northeast region of China. On the surface, it belonged to the KMT and was
managed by Qian Zhuangfei, but behind the scenes it was controlled by the CCP
and led by Chen Geng.
Li Kenong joined KMT’s Armed Force Headquarters as a cryptographer. Li was the
one that decoded the urgent message pertaining to the arrest and revolt of Gu
Shunzhang [6], a CCP Security Bureau Director. Qian Zhuangfei immediately sent
the decoded message to Zhou Enlai, thereby keeping the whole lot of spies from
being caught in a dragnet.
Yang Dengying was a pro-Communist special representative for the KMT’s Central
Investigation Office stationed in Shanghai. The CCP let him arrest and execute
those who the CCP considered unreliable. A senior officer from Henan Province
once offended a party cadre, and his own people pulled some strings to put him
in the KMT's jail for several years.
During the Liberation War [7], the CCP managed to plant a secret agent whom
Chiang Kai-shek (also called Jiang Jieshi) [8] kept in close confidence. Liu
Pei, Lieutenant General and the Deputy Minister of the Department of Defense was
in charge of dispatching the KMT army. Liu was in fact an undercover agent for
the CCP. Before the KMT army found out about their next assignment, the
information about the planned location of the army’s deployment had already
reached Yan’an, headquarter of the CCP. The Communist Party would come up with a
plan of defense accordingly. Xiong Xianghui, a secretary and trusted subordinate
of Hu Zongnan [9], revealed Hu’s plan to invade Yan’an to Zhou Enlai. When Hu
Zongnan and his forces reached Yan’an, it was deserted. Zhou Enlai once said,
“Chairman Mao knew the military orders issued by Chiang Kai-shek before they
ever made it to Chiang’s army commander.”
Sixth Inherited Trait: Robbery—Plundering by Tricks or Violence Becomes a “New
Order”
When the CCP pulled the Red Army together to establish its rule through military
force, they needed money for arms and ammunition, food and clothes. The CCP
resorted to “fund raising” mainly in the form of suppressing the local tyrants
and robbing banks, behaving just like bandits. Soon these “fund raising”
missions became one of the major tasks of the Red Army. For example, in a
mission led by Li Xiannian, one of the CCP’s senior leaders, the Red Army
kidnapped the richest families in county seats in the area of western Hubei
province. They did not just kidnap one single person, but one from every rich
family in the clan. Those kidnapped were kept alive to be ransomed back to their
families for continued monetary support of the army. It was not until either the
Red Army was satisfied or the kidnapped families were completely drained of
resources that the hostages were sent home, many at their last gasp. Some had
been terrorized so badly that they died before they could return.
Through “cracking down on the local tyrants and confiscating their lands,” the
CCP extended the tricks and violence of their plunder to the whole society,
replacing tradition with “the new order.” The Communist Party has committed all
manner of ill deeds, large and small, while it has done no good at all. It
offers small favors to everyone in order to incite some to denounce others. As a
result, compassion and virtue disappear completely, and are replaced with strife
and killing. The “communist utopia” is actually a euphemism for violent plunder.
Seventh Inherited Trait: Fighting—Destroys the National System, Traditional
Ranks and Orders
Deceit, incitement, unleashing social scum, and espionage are all for the
purpose of robbing and fighting. Communist philosophy promotes fighting. The
Communist revolution was absolutely not just some disorganized beating, smashing
and robbing. The Party said “The main targets of peasants’ attack are local
tyrants, the evil gentry and lawless landlords, but in passing they also struck
out against all kinds of patriarchal ideas and institutions, against the corrupt
officials in the cities and against the bad practices and customs in the rural
areas.” [4] An organized effort was launched to destroy the entire traditional
system and the customs of the countryside.
Communist fighting also includes armed forces and armed struggle. “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] Fighting is
inevitable when attempting to seize state power by force. A few decades later,
the CCP used the same characteristic of fighting to “educate” the next
generation during the Great Cultural Revolution.
Eighth Inherited Trait: Elimination—Establishes a Complete Ideology of Genocide
Communism has done many things with absolute cruelty. The CCP promised the
intellectuals a “heaven on earth.” Later it labeled them “rightist” and put them
into the infamous ninth category [10] of persecuted people, alongside landlords
and spies. It deprived capitalists of their property, exterminated the wealthy
landlord class, destroyed rank and order in the countryside, took authority away
from local figures, kidnapped and extorted bribes from the richer people,
brainwashed war prisoners, “reformed” industrialists and capitalists,
infiltrated the KMT and disintegrated it, split from the Communist International
and betrayed it, cleaned out all dissidents through successive political
movements after it came to power in 1949, and threatened its own members with
coercion.
The above-mentioned occurrences were all based on the CCP’s theory of genocide.
Its every political movement in the past was a campaign of terror with genocidal
intent. The CCP started to build its theoretical system of genocide at its early
stage as a composite of its theories on class, revolution, struggle, violence,
dictatorship, movements, and political parties. It encompasses all of the
experiences it has embraced and accumulated through its various genocidal
practices.
The essential expression of CCP genocide is the extermination of conscience and
independent thought. In this way a ‘reign by terror’ serves the fundamental
interests of the CCP. The CCP will not only eliminate you if you are against it,
but it may also destroy you even if you are for it. It will eliminate whomever
it deems should be eliminated. Consequently, everyone lives in the shadow of
terror and fears the CCP.
Ninth Inherited Trait: Control – The Use of Party Nature to Control the Entire
Party, and Subsequently the Rest of Society
All of the inherited characteristics aim to achieve a single goal: to control
the populace through the use of terror. Through its evil actions, the CCP has
proved itself to be the natural enemy of all existing social forces. Since its
inception, the CCP has struggled through one crisis after another, among which
the crisis of survival has been the most critical. The CCP exists in a state of
perpetual fear for its survival. Its sole purpose has been to maintain its own
existence and power—its own highest benefit. To supplement its declining power
the CCP is forced to update its superficial elements on a regular basis. The
Party’s benefit is not that of any single Party member or of any individual.
Rather, it is the benefit of the Party as a collective entity, as a whole. The
collective identity of the CCP overrides any sense of the individual.
“Party nature” has been the most vicious characteristic of this evil specter.
Party nature overwhelms human nature so completely that the Chinese people are
no longer free to speak or act. For instance, Zhou Enlai and Sun Bingwen were
once comrades. After Sun Bingwen died, Zhou Enlai took his daughter, Sun Weishi,
as his adopted daughter. During the Great Cultural Revolution, Sun Weishi was
reprimanded. She later died in custody from a long nail driven into the head.
Her arrest warrant had been signed by her stepfather, Zhou Enlai.
One of the early leaders of the CCP was Ren Bishi, who was in charge of opium
sales during the anti-Japanese war. Opium was a symbol of foreign invasion at
that time, as the British used opium imports to China to drain Chinese economy
and turn Chinese people into addicts. Despite the strong national sentiment
against opium, Ren dared to plant opium in a large area, risking universal
condemnation. Due to the sensitive and illegal nature of the opium dealings, the
CCP used the word “soap” as a code-word for opium. The CCP used the revenue from
the illicit drug trade with bordering countries to fund its existence. At the
Centenary of the Birth of Ren, one of the new generation of Chinese leaders
highly praised Ren’s aptitude for the Party, claiming that, “Ren possessed
superior character and was a model Party member. He also had a firm belief in
Communism and unlimited loyalty to the cause of the Party.”
Another example of good aptitude for the Party was Zhang Side. The Party said
that he was killed by the sudden collapse of a kiln, but others claimed that he
died while roasting opium. Since he was a quiet person, having served in the
Central Guard Division and having never asked for a promotion, it was said, “his
death is weightier than Taishan,” [11] meaning that his life held the greatest
importance.
Lei Feng was also known famously as the “screw that never rusts, functioning in
the revolutionary machine.” For a long period of time, both Lei and Zhang were
used as models to educate the Chinese people to be loyal to the Party. Many
Party heroes were used to model the “iron will and principle of the Party
spirit.”
Upon gaining power, the CCP launched an aggressive campaign of mind control to
mold many new “tools” and “screws” from the successive generations. The Party
formed a set of “proper thoughts” and a range of stereotypical behaviors. These
protocols were initially used within the Party, but quickly expanded to the
entire public. Clothed in the name of the nation, these thoughts and actions
worked to brainwash people into complying with the evil of the CCP.
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II. The CCP’s Dishonorable Foundation
The CCP lays claim to a brilliant history, one that has seen victory after
victory. This is merely an attempt to prettify itself and glorify the CCP’s
image in the eyes of the public. As a matter of fact, the CCP has no glory to
advertise at all. Only by using the nine inherited evil traits could it
establish and maintain power.
Establishment of the CCP—Raised on the Breast of the Soviet Union
“With the report of the first canon during the October Revolution, it brought us
Marxism and Leninism.” That was how the Party portrayed itself to the people.
However, when the Party was first founded, it was just the Asian branch of the
Soviet Union. From the beginning, it was a traitorous party.
During the founding period of the Party, they had no money, no ideology, nor any
experience. They had no foundation upon which to support themselves. The CCP
joined the Comintern to link its destiny with the existing violent revolution.
The CCP’s violent revolution was just a descendent of Marx and Lenin’s
revolution. The CCP was simply an eastern branch of Soviet Communism, carrying
out the imperialism of the Russian Red Army. The Soviet Union secretly directed
the Chinese violent political takeover and its ensuing overthrow of the existing
political and organizational ideology. Through the use of extreme surveillance
and control measures, the Soviet Union was the backbone and patron of the CCP.
The Comintern formulated the CCP constitution established at the first CCP
conference. The manifestos of Marx and Lenin, the ideology of class from Soviet
Party principles, provided its fundamental basis. The soul of the CCP consists
of ideology imported from the Soviet Union. Chen Duxiu, one of the foremost
officials of the CCP, had different opinions from those of the international
Communist committee representative, Maring. Maring wrote a memo to Chen stating
that if Chen were a real member of the Communist Party, he must follow orders
from the Comintern. Even though Chen Duxiu was one of the CCP's founding
fathers, he could do nothing but listen and obey orders. Truly, he and his Party
were simply subordinates of the Soviet Union.
During the third CCP conference in 1923, Chen Duxiu publicly acknowledged that
the Party was funded almost entirely by contributions from the Soviet Comintern.
In one year, the committee contributed over 200,000 yuan to the CCP, with
unsatisfactory results. The Comintern accused the CCP of not being diligent
enough in their efforts.
According to declassified Party documents, the CCP received 16,655 Chinese yuan
from October 1921 to June 1922. In 1924 they received US$1,500 and 31,927.17
yuan, and in 1927 they received 187,674 yuan. The monthly contribution from the
Comintern averaged around 20,000 yuan. Tactics commonly used by the CCP today,
such as lobbying, going through the backdoor, offering bribes, and using
threats, were already in use back then. The Comintern accused the CCP of
continuously lobbying for funds.
“They have different organizations (International Communications Office,
representatives for the Comintern, and military organizations, etc.) to disburse
funds each time…the funny thing is, it doesn’t take long for our comrade
representatives to understand the psychology of our Soviet comrades. Most
importantly, they know in what situation and which comrade will be more likely
to approve the funding. Once they know that they won’t be able to get it, they
delay meetings. In the end they use the cruelest methods, like spreading rumors
that some grass-root officials have conflicts with the Soviets, and that money
is being given to warlords instead of the CCP.”
The First KMT and CCP Alliance—A Parasite Infiltrates to the Core and Sabotages
the Northern Expedition [12]
The CCP has always taught its people that Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the National
Revolution movement [13], forcing the CCP to rise in armed revolt.
In reality, the CCP behaved like a parasite. It cooperated with the KMT in the
first KMT-CCP alliance for the sake of expanding its influence by taking
advantage of the national revolution. Moreover, the CCP was eager to launch the
Soviet-supported revolution and seize power, and its desire for power in fact
destroyed and betrayed the National Revolution movement.
At the second national representatives conference of the CCP, held in July 1922,
those opposing the alliance with the KMT dominated the conference, because the
conference members were anxious to seize power. However, the Comintern in fact
controlled events behind the scenes, and vetoed the resolution reached in the
conference; it ordered the CCP to join the KMT.
During the first KMT-CCP alliance, the CCP held its fourth national
representatives conference in Shanghai in January 1925. At that time, the CCP
had only 994 members, but the Party raised the question of leadership in China.
Chiang Kai-shek was not the cause of the CCP revolt. Had Sun Yat-sen [14] not
died, he would have been the target the CCP aimed at in its quest for power.
With the support of the Soviet Union, the CCP seized political power inside the
KMT during its alliance with the CCP. Tang Pingshan became the minister of the
Central Personnel Department of the KMT. Feng Jupo, secretary of the Ministry of
Labor, was granted full power to deal with all labor-related affairs. Lin Zuhan
was the Minister of Rural Affairs, while Peng Pai was secretary of this
Ministry. Mao Zedong assumed the position of acting propaganda minister of the
KMT Propaganda Ministry. The military schools and leadership of the military
were always the focus of the CCP: Zhou Enlai held the position of director of
the Politics Department of the Huangpu (Whampoa) Military Academy, and Zhang
Shenfu was its associate director. Zhou Enlai was also Chief of the Judge
Advocates Section, and he planted Russian military advisers here and there. Many
Communists held the positions of political instructors and faculty in KMT
military schools. CCP members also served as KMT Party representatives at
various levels of the National Revolutionary Army. [15] It was also stipulated
that without a Party representative’s signature, no order would be deemed
effective. As a result of this parasitic attachment to the National Revolution
movement, the number of the CCP members increased drastically from less than
1000 in 1925 to 30,000 by 1928.
The Northern Expedition started in February of 1926. However, from October 1926
to March 1927, the CCP launched three armed rebellions in Shanghai. Later, it
attacked the Northern Expedition military headquarters but failed. Zhou Enlai,
who used the alias Wu Hao, was caught and later released after he published his
repentance and acknowledged his wrongdoings. The pickets for the general strikes
in Guangdong province engaged in violent conflicts with the police every day,
and the KMT reinforced the police patrol with army soldiers and in the meantime
dispatched secret agents to monitor the people who were agitating the masses.
Such uprisings caused the April 12 purge of the CCP by the KMT. [16]
In August 1927, the CCP members within the KMT Revolutionary Army initiated the
Nanchang Rebellion, which was quickly suppressed. In September, the CCP launched
the Autumn Harvest Uprising to attack Changsha, but that attack was suppressed
as well. The CCP began to implement a network of control in the army whereby
“Party branches are established at the level of the company,” and it fled to the
Jinggangshan area, establishing rule over the countryside there.
The Hunan Peasant Rebellion—Inciting the Scum of Society to Revolt
During the Northern Expedition, the CCP instigated rebellions in the rural areas
in an attempt to capture power, while the National Revolutionary Army was at war
with the warlords.
The Hunan Peasant Rebellion in 1927 was a revolt of the riffraff, the scum of
society, as was the famous Paris Commune of 1871—the first Communist revolt.
French nationals and foreigners in Paris at the time witnessed that the Paris
Commune was a group of destructive roving bandits, having no vision. Living in
exquisite buildings and large mansions and eating extravagant and luxurious
meals, they cared only about enjoying their momentary happiness and worried
about nothing ahead. During the rebellion of the Paris Commune, they censored
the Press. They took as hostage and later shot the Archbishop of Paris, Georges
Darboy, who gave sermons to the King. For their personal enjoyment they cruelly
killed 64 clergymen, set fire to palaces, and destroyed government offices,
private residences, monuments, and inscription columns. The wealth and beauty of
the French capital had been second to none in Europe. However, during the Paris
Commune uprising, buildings were reduced to ashes and people to skeletons. Such
atrocities and cruelty had rarely been seen throughout history.
As Mao Zedong admitted,
It is true the peasants are in a sense unruly in the countryside. Supreme in
authority, the peasant association allowed the landlord no say and sweeps away
his prestige. This amounts to striking the landlord down to the dust and keeping
him there. The peasants threaten, ‘We will put you on the other list (the list
of reactionaries)!’ They fine the local tyrants and evil gentry, they demand
contributions from them, and they smash their sedan-chairs. People swarm into
the houses of local tyrants and evil gentry who are against the peasant
association, slaughter their pigs and consume their grain. They even loll on the
ivory-inlaid beds belonging to the young ladies in the households. At the
slightest provocation they make arrests, crown the arrested with tall paper
hats, and parade them through the village, saying, “You dirty landlords, now you
know who we are!” Doing whatever they like and turning everything upside down,
they have created a kind of terror in the countryside.
But Mao gave such “unruly” actions a full approval, saying,
To put it bluntly, it is necessary to create terror for a while in every rural
area, or otherwise it would be impossible to suppress the activities of the
counter-revolutionary in the countryside or overthrow the authority of the
gentry. Proper limits have to be exceeded in order to right the wrong, or else
the wrong cannot be righted... Many of their deeds in the period of
revolutionary action, which were seen as going too far, were in fact the very
things the revolution required.[4]
Communist revolution creates a system of terror.
The “Anti-Japanese” North-Bound Operation—the Flight of the Defeated
The CCP labeled the “Long March” as a northbound anti-Japanese operation. It
trumpeted the “Long March” as a Chinese revolutionary fairy tale. It claimed
that the “Long March” was a “manifesto,” a “propaganda team” and a “seeding
machine,” which ended with the CCP’s victory and their enemies’ defeat.
The CCP fabricated such obvious lies about marching north to fight the Japanese
to cover its failures. From October 1933 to January 1934, the Communist Party
suffered a total defeat. In the fifth operation by the KMT, which aimed to
encircle and annihilate the CCP, the CCP lost its rural strongholds one after
another. With its base areas continually shrinking, the main Red Army had to
flee. This is the true origin of the “Long March.”
The “Long March” was in fact aimed at breaking out of the encirclement and
fleeing to Outer Mongolia and Soviet Russia along an arc that first went west
and then north. Once in place, the CCP could escape into the Soviet Union in
case of defeat. The CCP encountered great difficulties when en route towards
Outer Mongolia. They chose to go through Shanxi and Suiyuan. On the one hand by
marching through these northern provinces, they could claim to be
“anti-Japanese” and win people’s hearts. On the other hand, those areas were
safe as no Japanese troops were deployed there. The territory along the Great
Wall was occupied by the Japanese army. A year later, when the CCP finally
arrived at Shanbei (northern Shaanxi province), the main force of the Central
Red Army had decreased from 80,000 to 6,000 people.
The Xi'an Incident—the CCP Latches onto the KMT a Second Time
In December 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, two KMT generals, kidnapped
Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an. This has since been referred to as the Xi'an Incident.
According to the version of history presented in CCP textbooks, the Xi’an
Incident was a “military coup” initiated by Zhang and Yang, who delivered a life
or death ultimatum to Chiang Kai-shek. He was forced to take a stance against
the Japanese invaders. Zhou Enlai was reportedly invited to Xi’an as a CCP
representative to help negotiate a peaceful resolution. With different groups in
China mediating, the incident was resolved peacefully, thereby ending a civil
war of ten years and starting a unified national alliance against the Japanese.
The CCP history books say that this incident was a crucial turning point for
China in her crisis. The CCP depicts itself as the patriotic party that takes
the interests of the whole nation into account.
In fact, at the beginning of the incident, the leaders of the CCP wanted to kill
Chiang Kai-shek, avenging his earlier suppression of the CCP. At the time, the
CCP had a very weak base in northern Shaanxi province, and had been in danger of
being completely eliminated in a single battle. So the CCP, utilizing all its
acquired skills of deception, instigated Zhang and Yang to revolt. In order to
pin down the Japanese and prevent them from attacking the Soviet Union, Stalin
wrote to the Central Committee of the CCP, asking them not to kill Chiang
Kai-shek, but to cooperate with him for a second time. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai
realized that they could not destroy the KMT with the limited strength of the
CCP; even if they killed Chiang Kai-shek, they would be defeated and even
eliminated by the avenging KMT army. Under these circumstances, the CCP changed
its tone. The CCP demanded joint resistance against the Japanese and forced
Chiang Kai-shek to accept cooperation a second time.
Many CCP spies had already gathered around Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang
before the Xi'an Incident. One example was the underground CCP member Liu Ding,
who was introduced to Zhang Xueliang by Song Qingling, wife of Sun Yat-sen, a
sister of Madame Chiang and a CCP member. Liu played such an important role in
instigating the Xi'an Incident that Mao Zedong later praised his outstanding
service. Among those working at Yang Hucheng’s side, his own wife Xie Baozhen
was a CCP member and worked in Yang’s Political Department of the Army. Xie
married Yang Hucheng in January of 1928 with the approval of the CCP. In
addition, CCP member Wang Bingnan was an honored guest in Yang’s home at the
time. Wang later became a vice minister for the CCP Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It was these CCP members around Yang and Zhang who directly instigated the coup.
The CCP first instigated a revolt, pointing the gun at Chiang Kai-shek, but then
turned around and, acting like a stage hero, forced him to accept the CCP. In
such a way the CCP not only escaped a crisis of disintegration, but also used
the opportunity to latch onto the KMT government for the second time. The Red
Army was soon turned into the Eighth Route Army, bigger and more powerful than
before. One must admire the CCP’s unmatchable skills of deception.
Anti-Japanese War—The CCP Grows by Killing with Borrowed Weapons
The textbooks of the CCP claim that the Communist Party led the Chinese victory
in the anti-Japanese war.
In reality, however, when the anti-Japanese war broke out, the KMT had more than
1.7 million armed soldiers, ships with 110,000 tons displacement, and about 600
fighter planes of various kinds. In comparison, the total size of the CCP’s New
Fourth Army, newly grouped in November of 1937, did not exceed 70,000 people,
and its power was weakened further by internal fractional politics. The CCP
realized that if it were to face battle with the Japanese, its power would be
diminished. In the eyes of the CCP, sustaining its own power rather than
ensuring the survival of the nation was the central focus of the emphasis on
“national unity.” Therefore, during its cooperation with the KMT, the CCP
exercised an undisclosed internal policy of giving priority to the struggle for
political power.
After the Japanese occupied the city of Shenyang on September 18, 1931, thereby
extending their control over large areas in northeastern China, the CCP fought
practically shoulder to shoulder with Japanese invaders to defeat the KMT. In a
declaration written in response to the Japanese occupation, the CCP exhorted the
people in the KMT-controlled area to rebel, calling on “workers to strike,
peasants to make trouble, students to boycott classes, poor people to quit
working, soldiers to revolt” so as to overthrow the Nationalist government.
Though the CCP held up a banner calling for resistance to the Japanese, they
only had local armies and guerrilla forces in camps away from the front lines.
Except for several battles, including the one fought at Pingxing Pass, the CCP
did not make much of a contribution to the war against the Japanese. Instead,
they spent their energy expanding their own base. When the Japanese surrendered,
the CCP incorporated the surrendering soldiers into its army, claiming to have
expanded to more than 900,000 regular soldiers, in addition to 2 million militia
fighters. The KMT army was essentially alone on the frontlines while fighting
the Japanese, losing over 200 generals in the war. The commanding officers on
the CCP side, however, bore nearly no losses. Even so, the CCP constantly
claimed that the KMT did not resist the Japanese, and that it was the CCP that
led the great victory in the anti-Japanese war.
Rectification in Yan’an—Creating the Most Fearsome Methods in Persecution
The CCP attracted countless patriotic youth to Yan’an in the name of fighting
against the Japanese, but then persecuted thousands of them during the
rectification movement enacted on what became known as “revolutionary holy
land.” Since gaining control of China, the CCP has continued to depict Yan’an as
the revolutionary “holy land,” but has not made any mention of the crimes it
committed during the rectification.
The rectification movement in Yan’an was the largest, darkest and most ferocious
power game ever played out in the human world. In the name of cleansing petty
bourgeoisie toxins, the Party washed away morality, independence of thought,
freedom of action, tolerance, and dignity. The first step of the rectification
was to set up, for each person, personnel archives, which included: 1) a
personal statement; 2) a chronicle of one's political life; 3) family background
and social relationships; 4) autobiography and ideological transformation; 5)
evaluation according to the Party nature.
In the personnel archive, one had to list all acquaintances since birth, all
important events and the time and place of their occurrence. People were asked
to write repeatedly for the archive, and any omissions would be seen as signs of
impurity. One had to describe all social activities they had ever participated
in, especially those related to joining the Party. The emphasis was placed on
personal thought processes during these social activities. Evaluation based on
Party nature was even more important, and one had to confess any anti-Party
thoughts or behavior in one’s consciousness, speech, work attitudes, everyday
life, or social activities. In evaluation of one’s consciousness, one was
required to scrutinize whether one had been concerned for self-interest, whether
one had used work for the Party to reach personal goals, whether one had wavered
in trust in the revolutionary future, feared death during battles, or missed
family members and spouses. There were no objective standards, so nearly
everyone was found to have problems.
Coercion was used to extract “confessions” from cadres who were being inspected
in order to eliminate “hidden traitors.” Countless frame-ups, false and wrong
accusations resulted, and a large number of cadres were persecuted. During the
rectification, Yan’an was called “a place for purging human nature.” A work team
entered the University of Military Affairs and Politics to examine the cadres'
personal histories, causing bloody terror for two months. Various methods were
used to extract confessions. People were ordered to confess and shown how to
confess. There were “group persuasions,” “five-minute persuasions,” private
advice, conference reports, and identifying the “radishes” (i.e., red outside
and white inside). There was also “picture taking”—lining up everyone on the
stage for examination. Those who appeared nervous were identified as suspects
and targeted as objects to be investigated.
Even representatives from the Comintern recoiled at the methods used during the
rectification, saying that the Yan’an situation was depressing. People did not
dare interact with one another. Each person had their own axe to grind and
everyone was nervous and frightened. No one dared to speak the truth or protect
mistreated friends, because each was trying to save his own life. The
vicious—those who flattered, lied, and insulted others—were promoted;
humiliation became a fact of life in Yan’an. People were pushed to the brink of
insanity, having been forced to abandon dignity, a sense of honor or shame, and
love for one another. They ceased to express their own opinions, but recited
party leaders’ articles instead.
This same system of oppression has been employed in all CCP political activities
since it seized power in China.
Three Years of Civil War—Betraying the Country to Seize Power
The Russian bourgeois revolution in February 1917 was a relatively mild
uprising. The Tsar placed the interests of the country first and surrendered the
throne instead of resisting. Lenin hurriedly returned to Russia from Germany,
staged another coup and murdered the revolutionaries of the capitalist class who
had overthrown the Tsar, thus strangling Russia’s bourgeois revolution. The CCP,
like Lenin, picked the fruits of a nationalist revolution. After the
anti-Japanese war was over, the CCP launched a revolutionary war to overthrow
the KMT government, bringing the disaster of war to China once more.
The CCP is adept at manipulating the masses. In several battles with the KMT,
including those fought in Liaoxi-Shenyang, Beijing-Tianjin, and Huai Hai, the
CCP used primitive, barbarous, and inhumane tactics that sacrificed its own
people. When besieging Changchun, in order to exhaust the food supply in the
city, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forbade ordinary people from leaving
the city. During the two months of Changchun’s besiegement, nearly 200,000
people died of hunger and frost. But the PLA did not allow people to leave.
After the battle was over, the CCP, without a tinge of shame, claimed that they
had "liberated Changchun without firing a shot."
From 1947 to 1948, the CCP signed the "Harbin Agreement" and the "Moscow
Agreement" with the Soviet Union, surrendering national assets and giving away
resources from the Northeast in exchange for the Soviet Union’s full support in
foreign relations and military affairs. According to the agreements, the Soviet
Union would supply the CCP with airplanes; it would give the CCP weapons left by
the surrendered Japanese in two installments; and it would sell the
Soviet-controlled ammunition and military supplies in China’s Northeast to the
CCP at low prices. If the KMT launched an amphibious landing in the Northeast,
the Soviet Union would secretly support the CCP army. In addition, the Soviet
Union would help the CCP gain control over Xinjiang; the CCP and the Soviet
Union would build an allied air force; the Soviets would help equip 11 divisions
of the CCP army, and transport one-third of its US-supplied weapons (worth $13
billion) into Northeast China.
To gain Soviet support, the CCP promised the Soviet Union special transportation
privileges in the Northeast both on land and in the air; offered the Soviet
Union information about the actions of both the KMT government and the US
military; provided the Soviet Union with products from the Northeast (cotton,
soybeans) and military supplies in exchange for advanced weapons; granted the
Soviet Union preferential mining rights in China; allowed the Soviet Union to
station armies in the Northeast and Xinjiang; and permitted the Soviets to set
up the Far East Intelligence Bureau in China. If war broke out in Europe, the
CCP would send an expeditionary army of 100,000 plus 2 million laborers to
support the Soviet Union. In addition, the CCP promised to merge some special
regions in Liaoning province into North Korea if necessary.
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III. Demonstrating Evil Traits
Eternal Fear Marks the Party’s History
The most prominent characteristic of the CCP is its eternal fear, especially its
fear of losing power. Survival has been the CCP’s highest interest, which it has
supported with the use of force. The CCP is like a primary cancer cell that
diffuses and infiltrates every part of body, encroaching on and making
surrounding normal cells become cancerous. In our cycle of history, society
cannot dissolve such a mutated factor as the CCP and has no alternative but to
let it proliferate at will. As a result, much of society has become polluted,
and large areas have been flooded with Communism or communist elements. The
spreading of the CCP has fundamentally degraded the morality and society of
humankind.
The CCP doesn’t believe in the principles of morality and justice. All of its
principles are used entirely for its own interest. It is fundamentally selfish,
and there are no principles that could restrain and control its desires. Based
on its own principles, the Party needs to keep changing how it appears on the
surface, putting on new skins. During the early period when its survival was at
stake, the CCP attached to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the KMT,
to the KMT’s governing body, and to the National Revolution. After capturing
power, the CCP attached itself to various forms of opportunism, to the citizens’
minds and feelings, to social structures and means—to anything it could put its
hands on. It has utilized every crisis as an opportunity to gather wealth and to
strengthen its means of control.
The CCP’s “Magic Weapons”
The CCP claims that revolutionary victory depends on three “magic weapons”: the
Party’s construction, armed struggle, and united fronts. The experience with the
KMT offered the CCP two more such “weapons”: propaganda and espionage. The
Party’s various “magic weapons” have all been infused with the CCP’s nine
inherited traits: evil, deceit, incitement, unleashing the scum of society,
espionage, robbery, fighting, elimination, and control.
Marxism-Leninism is evil in its nature. Ironically, the Chinese Communists do
not really understand Marxism-Leninism. Lin Biao [17] said that there were very
few CCP members who had really read the works of Marx or Lenin. The public
considered Qu Qiubai [18] an ideologue, but he admitted to have only read a very
little of Marxism-Leninism. Mao Zedong’s ideology is a rural version of what
Marxism-Leninism advocates for rebellious peasants. Deng Xiaoping’s socialist
theory has capitalism as its last name. Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents” [19]
was pieced together out of nothing. The CCP has never really understood what
Marxism-Leninism is, but has inherited from it the evil aspects, upon which the
CCP has foisted off its own even more wicked stuff.
The CCP’s united front is a conjunction of deceit and short-term pay-offs. The
goal of unity was to strengthen its power. By combining forces in battles
against the Japanese, the CCP could grow from a loner to a huge clan. Unity
required discernment—identifying who were enemies and who were friends; who were
on the left, in the middle, on the right; who should be befriended and when, and
who should be attacked and when. It easily turned former enemies into friends
and then back to enemies again. For example, during the period of the democratic
revolution, the party allied with the capitalists; during the socialist
revolution it eliminated the capitalists. In another example, leaders of other
parties such as Zhang Bojun and Luo Longji were made use of as supporters of the
CCP during the period of seizing state power, but later were persecuted as
“rightists.”
The Communist Party Is a Sophisticated Professional Gang
The Communist Party has used two-sided strategies, one side soft and flexible
and the other hard and stern. Its softer strategies include propaganda, united
fronts, espionage, double-dealing, getting into people's minds, brainwashing,
lies and deception, covering up the truth, psychological abuse, and generating
an atmosphere of terror. In doing these things, the CCP creates a syndrome of
fear inside the Party members’ hearts that leads them easily to forget the
Party’s mistakes. These myriad methods could stamp out human nature and foster
maliciousness in humanity. The CCP’s hard tactics include violence, persecution,
political movements, killing and destroying lives, kidnapping, suppressing
different voices, armed attacks, periodic crack-downs, etc. These aggressive
methods create and perpetuate terror.
The CCP uses both soft and hard methods concurrently. Sometimes they would be
relaxed in some instances while strict in others, or they would be relaxed on
the outside while stiff in their internal affairs. In a relaxed atmosphere, the
CCP encouraged the expression of different opinions, but, as if luring the snake
out of its hole, those who did speak up would only be persecuted in the
following period of strict control. The CCP often used democracy to challenge
the KMT, but when intellectuals in the CCP-controlled areas disagreed with the
party, they would be tortured or even beheaded. As an example, we can look at
the infamous “Wild Lilies incident”, in which the intellectual Wang Shiwei was
purged in the Yan’an rectification movement and executed by the CCP in 1947.
A veteran official who had suffered torments in the Yan’an Rectification
movement recalled that when he was under intense pressure, dragged and forced to
confess, the only thing he could do was to betray his own conscience and make up
lies. At first, he felt bad to be implicating and framing his fellow comrades.
He hated himself so much that he wanted to end his life. Coincidentally, a gun
had been placed on the table. He grabbed it and, pointing it at his head, pulled
the trigger. The gun had no bullets! The person who investigated him walked in
and said, “It’s good that you admitted what you’ve done was wrong. The Party’s
policies are lenient.” The Communist Party would know that you had reached your
limit, know that you were “loyal” to the Party, so you had passed the test.
Years later, this official learned about Falun Gong, a Qigong and cultivation
practice that started in China. He felt the practice to be good. When the
persecution of Falun Gong started, however, his painful memories of the past
revisited him, and he no longer dared to say that Falun Gong is good.
The experience of Emperor Puyi [20] was similar to this officer’s. Imprisoned in
the CCP’s cells and seeing other people killed, he thought that he would die
soon. In order to live, he allowed himself to be brainwashed and cooperated with
the prison guards. Later, he wrote an autobiography The First Half of My life,
which was used by the CCP as an example of ideological remolding.
According to modern medical studies, many victims of intense pressure and
isolation fall prey to an abnormal sense of dependency on their captors known as
the Stockholm Syndrom. The victims’ moods, happiness or anger, joy or sorrow,
would be dictated by those of their captors. The slightest favor for the victims
will be received with deep gratitude. There are accounts in which the victims
develop “love” for their captors. This psychological phenomenon has been long
known and successfully used by the CCP against its enemies and in controlling
the minds of its citizens.
The Communist Party Uses and Discards Its Leaders While Resisting Reform
The first ten general secretaries of the CCP have, without exception, all been
labeled anti-communists. Clearly, the CCP has a life of its own, and the party
runs the officials and not the other way around. In Jiangxi province, during the
war with the KMT, the CCP is known to have conducted internal cleansing
operations, executing its own soldiers—stoning them to death to save bullets. In
Shaanxi province, while sandwiched in between the Japanese and the KMT, the CCP
began the Yan’an rectification movement of mass cleansing, killing many. This
type of repetitive massacre on such a massive scale did not prevent the CCP from
expanding its power to all of China. The CCP imported this pattern of killing
from the Soviet Union.
The CCP is like a malignant tumor: in its rapid development, the center of the
tumor has already died, but it continues to engulf all organisms on the outer
edges, expanding its influence. The organisms and bodies that are engulfed by
the tumor became part of the cancer. No matter how good or bad a person is to
start with, after joining the CCP, he or she would become a part of its
destructive force. The more honest the person is, the more destructive he would
become. Undoubtedly, this CCP tumor will continue to grow until there is nothing
left for it to feed upon. Then, the cancer will surely die.
The founder of the CCP, Chen Duxiu, was an intellectual and a leader of the May
Fourth student movement. He showed himself not a fan of violence, and warned the
CCP members that if they attempted to convert the KMT to the communist
ideologies or had too much interest in power, that would certainly lead to
strained relationships. While one of the most active in the May Fourth
generation, Chen was also tolerant. However, he was the first to be labeled a
“right-wing opportunist.”
Another CCP leader, Qu Qiubai, believed that the CCP members should engage in
battles, organize rebellions, overthrow authorities, and use extreme means to
return the Chinese society to its normal functioning. However, he confessed
before his death that he did not want to die as a revolutionary, since he had
left the movement long time ago. He sighed that history played a trick, bringing
him, an intellectual, onto the political stage of revolution and keeping him
there for many years. In the end, he said he still could not overcome his own
gentry notions. “I cannot become a warrior of the proletariat class.”
The CCP leader Wang Ming, at the advice of the Comintern, advocated for unity
with the KMT in the war against the Japanese, instead of expanding the CCP base.
At the CCP meetings, Mao Zedong and Zhang Wentian could not persuade this fellow
comrade, nor could they reveal the truth of their situation: according to the
limited military strength of the Red Army, they would not be able to hold back
the Japanese by themselves. If, against good sense, the CCP would have decided
to fight, then the history of China would certainly be different. Mao Zedong was
forced to remain silent at the meetings. Later, Wang Ming was ousted, first for
a “left wing” deviation and then branded an opportunist of the right wing
ideology.
Hu Yaobang, another party Secretary, who was forced to resign in January of
1987, fought to bring justice to many innocent victims who had been criminalized
during the Cultural Revolution. He wanted to rejuvenate Communism in the hearts
of the citizens. Still, he was used as a scapegoat in the end.
Zhao Ziyang, the most recent fallen Secretary [21], wanted to help the CCP in
furthering reform, yet his actions brought him dire consequences.
So what has each leader of the CCP accomplished? Truly to reform the CCP would
imply its death. The reformers quickly found their power taken away by the CCP.
There is a certain limit on what the CCP members can do to transform the CCP
system. All rely on the power rendered by the CCP itself, and so no true reform
can succeed with the CCP.
If the Party leaders have all turned into “bad people,” how could the CCP have
expanded the revolution? In many instances when the CCP was at its best—also the
most evil, their highest officials failed in their positions. This was because
their degree of evil did not meet the high standard of the Party, which has,
over and over, selected only the most evil. Many Party leaders ended their
political life in tragedy, yet the CCP has survived. The CCP leaders who
survived their positions were not those who could influence the Party, but those
who could comprehend the Party’s intentions and follow them. They strengthened
the CCP’s ability to survive while in crisis, and gave themselves entirely to
the Party. No wonder they were capable of battling with heaven, fighting with
the earth, and struggling against other human beings. But never could they
oppose the Party. In the CCP organization, especially at the high level, there
was a symbiotic relationship between the leaders and the Party, pursuing their
own mutual survival.
Shamelessness has become a marvelous quality of today’s CCP. According to the
Party, its mistakes were all made by individual Party leaders, e.g., Zhang
Guotao or the Gang of Four [22]. Mao Zedong was judged by the Party as having 3
parts mistakes and 7 parts achievements, while Deng Xiaoping judged himself to
have 4 parts mistakes and 6 parts achievements, but the Party itself was never
wrong. Even if the Party was wrong, it says that it can correct itself.
Therefore, the Party tells its members to “look forward” and “not to be tangled
in past accounts.” Many things could change: The Communist paradise can turn
into a lowly goal of socialist food and shelter; Marx could be replaced with
“Three Represents”; people would not be surprised to see that the country is
becoming democratic, opening up the freedom of belief, abandoning Jiang Zemin
overnight, or redressing the persecution of Falun Gong. Other things about the
CCP, however, do not change: The fundamental pursuit of the Party’s
goals—survival and maintenance of its power and control.
The CCP has mixed violence, terror and high-pressure indoctrination to form its
theoretical basis, which is then turned into the Party nature, the spirit of its
leaders, and ultimately the Party’s entire functioning mechanism and members’
way of acting. The system, its leaders and members all have assimilated to these
ideas. The Communist Party is made of iron and its disciplines have the hardness
of steel. The intention of all its members must be unified, and the action of
all its members must completely comply with the Party’s political agenda.
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Conclusion
Why has history chosen the Communist Party over any other political force in
China? As we all know, in this world there are two forces, two choices. One is
the old and evil, whose goal is to do evil and choose the negative. The other is
the righteous and good, which will choose the right and the benevolent. The CCP
was chosen by the old forces. The reason for the choice is precisely because the
CCP has gathered all the evil of the world, Chinese or foreign, past or present.
It is a typical representative of the evil forces. At its inception, the CCP
used people’s inborn innocence and benevolence to cheat, and, step by step, it
has prevailed in gaining today’s capacity to destroy.
What did the Party mean when it claimed that there would be no new China without
the Communist Party? From its founding in 1921 until it took political power in
1949, the evidence clearly shows that without deceit and violence, the CCP would
not be in power. The CCP differs from all other types of organizations in that
it follows a twisted ideology of Marxism-Leninism, and does what it pleases. It
can explain all that it does with high theories and link them cleverly to
certain portions of the masses, thus “justifying” its actions. It broadcasts
propaganda every day, clothing its strategies in various principles and theories
and proving itself to be forever correct.
The development of the CCP has been a process of the accumulation of evil. The
history of the CCP tells us precisely its illegitimacy. The Chinese people did
not choose the CCP; instead, the CCP forced Communism, this foreign evil
specter, onto the Chinese people by applying the evil traits that it has
inherited from the Communist Party—evil, deceit, incitement, unleashing the scum
of society, espionage, robbery, fighting, elimination, and control.
Notes:
[1] From the Communist Anthem, “The Internationale.”
[2] From Mao’s “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan”
(1927).
[3] Lumpen proletariat, roughly translated as slum workers. This term identifies
the class of outcast, degenerate or underground elements that make up a section
of the population of industrial centers. It includes beggars, prostitutes,
gangsters, racketeers, swindlers, petty criminals, tramps, chronic unemployed or
unemployables, persons who have been cast out by industry, and all sorts of
declassed, degraded or degenerated elements. The term was coined by Marx in The
Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850.
[4] Mao (1927).
[5] Zhou Enlai (March 5, 1898 - January 8, 1976), was second in prominence to
Mao in the history of the CCP. He was a leading figure in the CCP and Premier of
the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death.
[6] Gu Shunzhang was originally one of the heads of the CCP special agent
system. In 1931 he was arrested by the KMT and assisted them in uncovering many
of the CCP's secret hideouts. All eight members of Gu's family were later
strangled to death and buried in the French Concession in Shanghai. See “The
CCP’s History of Assassinations” for more related information
(
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-7-14/22421.html).
[7] The war between the CCP and the KMT in June 1946. The war is marked by three
successive campaigns: Liaoxi-Shenyang, Huai-Hai and Beiping-Tianjin, after which
the CCP overthrew the rule of the KMT, leading to the founding of the People's
Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
[8] Chiang Kai-shek was leader of the KMT, and later exiled to become ruler of
Taiwan.
[9] Hu Zongnan (1896-1962), a native of Xiaofeng county (now part of Anji
County), Zhejiang province, was successively deputy commander, acting commander
and chief of staff of the KMT’s Southwest Military and Administrative
Headquarters.
[10] When the CCP began land reform, it categorized the people. Among the
defined classes of enemies, intellectuals are next to landlords, reactionaries,
spies, etc. and ranked Number 9.
[11] From a poem by Sima Qian, a historian and scholar in the West Han Dynasty.
His famous poem says, “Everyone has to die; one dies either more solemn than
Taishan or lighter than a feather.” Taishan is one of the major mountains in
China.
[12] The Northern Expedition was a military campaign led by Chiang Kai-shek in
1927 intended to unify China under the rule of the KMT and end the rule of local
warlords. It was largely successful in these objectives. During the Northern
Expedition, the CCP had an alliance with the KMT.
[13] The revolutionary movement during the CCP-KMT alliance, marked by the
Northern Expedition.
[14] Sun Yat-sen, founder of the modern China.
[15] The National Revolutionary Army controlled by the KMT, was the national
army of the Republic of China. During the period of the CCP-KMT alliance, it
included CCP members who joined the alliance.
[16] On April 12, 1927, the KMT led by Chiang Kai-shek initiated a military
operation against the CCP in Shanghai and several other cities. Over 5,000 to
6,000 of the CCP members were captured and many of them were killed in Shanghai
between April 12 and the end of 1927.
[17] Lin Biao (1907-1971), one of the senior CCP leaders, served under Mao
Zedong as a member of China's Politburo, as Vice-Chairman (1958) and Defense
Minister (1959). Lin is regarded as the architect of China's Great Cultural
Revolution. Lin was designated as Mao's successor in 1966 but fell out of favor
in 1970. Sensing his downfall, Lin reportedly became involved in a coup attempt
and attempted to flee to the USSR once the alleged plot became exposed. During
his attempted flight from prosecution, his plane crashed in Mongolia, resulting
in his death.
[18] Qu Qiubai (1899-1935) is one of the CCP’s earlier leaders and famous
leftist writers. He was captured by KMT on February 23, 1935 and died on June 18
the same year.
[19] The “Three Represents” was initially mentioned in a speech by Jiang Zemin
in February, 2000. According to this doctrine, the Party must always represent
the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of
China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming
majority of the Chinese people.
[20] Pu-yi, Manchurian name Aisin Gioro (1906–1967), the last emperor
(1908–1912) of China, ruled under the name Hsuan T’ung. After his abdication,
the new republican government granted him a large government pension and
permitted him to live in the Forbidden City of Beijing until 1924. After 1925,
he lived in the Japanese concession in Tianjin. In 1934, and, reigning under the
name K’ang Te, he became the emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo,
or Manchuria. He was captured by the Russians in 1945 and kept as their
prisoner. In 1946, Pu Yi testified at the Tokyo war crimes trial that he had
been the unwilling tool of the Japanese militarists and not, as they claimed,
the instrument of Manchurian self-determination. In 1950 he was handed over to
the Chinese Communists, and he was imprisoned at Shenyang until 1959, when Mao
Zedong granted him amnesty.
[21] The last of the ten general secretaries of the CCP that was dismissed due
to his disagreement with using force to end the student demonstrations in the
Tiananmen Square in 1989.
[22] The 'Gang of Four' was formed by Mao Zedong's wife Jiang Qing (1913-1991),
Shanghai Propaganda Department official Zhang Chunqiao (1917-1991), literary
critic Yao Wenyuan (1931) and Shanghai security guard Wang Hongwen (1935-1992).
They rose to power during the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and
dominated Chinese politics during the early 1970s.
Epoch Times Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party - Part 3
The Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party
Foreword
When thinking of tyranny, most Chinese people recall Qin Shi Huang (259-210
B.C.), the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, whose oppressive government burnt
philosophical books and buried Confucian scholars alive. Qin Shi Huang’s harsh
treatment of his people came from his policy of “supporting his rule with all of
the resources under heaven.” [1] This policy had four main aspects: excessively
heavy taxation; wasting human labor for projects to glorify himself; brutal
torture under draconian laws; and controlling people’s minds by blocking all
avenues of free thinking and expression through burning books and even burying
scholars alive. Under the rule of Qin Shi Huang, China had a population of 10
million; the emperor drafted over 2 million to perform forced labor. Qin Shi
Huang brought his draconian laws into the intellectual realm, prohibiting
freedom of thought on a massive scale. During his rule, thousands of Confucian
scholars and officials who criticized the government were killed.
Today the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s violence and abuses are even more
severe than those of the tyrannical Qin Dynasty. Most people know that the CCP’s
philosophy is one of “struggle.” Mao Zedong, the first CCP leader since the
founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), put it bluntly by saying,
“What Qin Shi Huang did was no big deal. He buried 460 intellectuals alive, but
we buried 46,000. There are people who label Qin Shi Huang and us as a
dictatorship, and we accept them all. It’s a fact.” [2]
Let’s take a look at China’s arduous 55 years under the rule of the CCP. As its
founding philosophy is one of “class struggle,” the CCP has spared no efforts
since taking power to commit class genocide, and has achieved its reign of
terror by means of the policy of revolution through violence. Killing and
brainwashing have been used hand in hand to suppress all beliefs differing from
communist theory. The CCP has launched one movement after another to portray
itself as infallible and godlike. Following its policies of class struggle and
violent revolution, the CCP has tried to purge dissidents and opposing social
classes, using violence and tricks to force all Chinese people to become the
obedient servants of its tyrannical rule.
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I. Land Reform—Eliminating the Landlord Class
Barely three months after the founding of the communist China, the CCP called
for the elimination of the landlord class as one of the guidelines for its
nationwide land reform program. The party’s slogan “land to the tiller” indulged
the selfish side of the landless farmers, encouraged them to take property by
violence and to disregard the moral implications of their actions; it even
instigated the landless farmers to fight those farmers who owned land. The
campaign, which explicitly stipulated eliminating the landlord class, began with
grouping the rural population into different social categories. Twenty million
rural inhabitants nationwide were labeled as “landlords, rich farmers,
reactionaries, or bad elements.” These new outcasts faced discrimination,
humiliation, and loss of all their civil rights. As the land reform program
extended its reach to remote areas and the villages of ethnic minorities, the
CCP’s organizations also expanded quickly. Party committees and branches spread
all over China and were built at the village and township levels. The local
branches were the mouthpiece for passing instructions from the CCP’s Central
Committee and were at the frontline of the class struggle, inciting farmers to
rise up against their landlords. Nearly 100,000 landlords died during this
movement. In certain areas the CCP and the farmers killed the landlords’ entire
families, disregarding gender or age, as a way to wipe out completely the
landlord class.
In the meantime, the CCP launched its first wave of propaganda, declaring that
“Chairman Mao is the great savior of the people” and that “only the CCP can save
China.” During the land reform, landless farmers got what they wanted with
little effort. Poor farmers credited the CCP for the improvement in their lives
and so accepted the CCP’s propaganda that the party worked for the interests of
the people.
For the owners of the newly acquired land, the good days of “land to the tiller”
were short-lived. Within two years, the CCP imposed a number of practices on the
farmers such as mutual-aid groups, elementary communes, advanced communes, and
people’s communes. Using the slogan of criticizing “women with bound feet”—i.e.,
those who are slow paced—the CCP drove and pushed, year after year, farmers to
“dash” into socialism. With grain, cotton, and cooking oil placed under a
unified purchasing and selling system nationwide, the major agricultural
products were excluded from market exchange. In addition, the CCP established a
residential registration system, barring farmers from going to the cities to
find work or dwell. Those who registered their residence in rural areas were not
allowed to buy grain at state-run stores and their children were prohibited from
receiving education in cities. Farmers’ children could only be farmers, turning
360 million rural residents of the early 1950s into second-class citizens.
Beginning in 1978, in the first five years after moving from a system of
communal living to a household contract system, farmers’ income increased
slightly and their social status improved somewhat. However, such a meager
benefit was soon lost due to corrupt rural officials and a price imbalance
between agricultural and industrial commodities. As a result, today’s 900
million farmers have once again fallen into dire poverty, while the rest of
China has achieved better living standards through the nation’s economic
reforms. The income gap between the urban and rural population has drastically
increased and continues to widen. New landlords and wealthy farmers have emerged
to replace those eliminated in the land reform program. Data provided by the
Xinhua News Agency, a government mouthpiece, indicated that since 1997, “The
income of farmers in the major grain production areas and that of most rural
households have been at a standstill and, in some cases, has experienced a
decline.” The ratio of urban to rural incomes has increased from 1.8 to 1 in the
mid 1980s to 3.1 to 1 today.
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II. Reforms in Industry and Commerce—Eliminating the Capitalist Class
The native capitalist class, a class of people who owned capital investments and
resided in cities and towns, was also bound to face destruction during the CCP’s
rule. While reforming China’s industry and commerce, the CCP claimed that the
capitalist class and the working class were different in nature: the former was
the exploiting class while the latter was the non-exploiting class. According to
this logic, the capitalist class was born to exploit and wouldn’t stop doing so
until it perished; it could only be eliminated, not reformed. Under such
premises, the CCP used both killing and brainwashing to transform capitalists
and merchants. Capitalists could thrive if they went along with the government,
but would perish if they didn’t. If you surrendered your assets to the state and
supported the CCP, you were considered just a minor problem among the people.
If, on the other hand, you disagreed with or complained about the CCP’s policy,
you would be labeled as a reactionary and become the target of the CCP’s
draconian dictatorship.
During the reign of terror that ensued during these reforms, capitalists and
business owners all surrendered their assets. Many of them couldn’t bear the
humiliation they faced and committed suicide. Chen Yi, then mayor of Shanghai,
asked every day, “How many paratroopers did we have today?” referring to the
number of capitalists that had committed suicide by jumping from the tops of
buildings that day. This was how the CCP quickly eliminated private ownership in
China.
While carrying out its land and business reform programs, the CCP launched many
massive movements that persecuted the Chinese people. These movements included:
the suppression of “counter-revolutionaries,” ideological remolding campaigns,
cleansing the anti-CCP clique headed by Gao Gang and Rao Shushi, and probing Hu
Feng’s [3] “counter-revolutionary” group. From 1951 to 1952, the CCP initiated
movements called the “Three Anti Campaign" and the "Five Anti Campaign” with the
stated goal of eliminating corruption, waste and bureaucracy within the Party,
government, army and mass organizations. In reality, however, the CCP used these
movements to target and brutally persecute countless innocent people.
Having a full control of government resources, the CCP fully utilized them in
conjunction with the Party’s committees, branches, and sub-branches in every
single political movement. Three party members would form a small struggle
force, infiltrating all villages and neighborhoods. These struggle forces were
ubiquitous, leaving no stone unturned. This deeply-rooted control network,
inherited from the CCP’s years of war with Japan and the Kuomintang (Nationalist
Party, KMT), has since played a key role in later political movements, including
the suppression of its people today.
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III. Crackdown on Religions and Popular Groups
Another atrocity the CCP committed is the brutal suppression of religion and
complete ban of all non-governmental groups following the founding of the
People’s Republic of China. In 1950, the CCP instructed its local governments to
ban all unofficial religious faiths and secret societies. The CCP stated that
those “feudalistic” underground groups were mere tools in the hands of
landlords, rich farmers, reactionaries, and the special agents of the KMT,
making them the enemy of the CCP. In this nationwide crackdown, the government
mobilized the classes they trusted to identify and persecute members of
religious groups. Governments at various levels were directly involved in
disbanding such “superstitious groups” as communities of Christians, Catholics,
Taoists, and Buddhists. They ordered all members of these churches, temples, and
religious factions to register with government agencies and to repent for their
unofficial activities. Failure to do so would mean severe punishment. In 1951,
the government formally promulgated regulations threatening that those who
continued their activities in unofficial groups would face a life sentence or a
death penalty.
This movement persecuted a large number of kind-hearted and law-abiding
believers in God. Incomplete statistics indicate that the CCP in the 1950s
persecuted, including death penalty, at least three million religious believers
and underground group members. The CCP searched almost every household across
the nation and interrogated its members, even smashing statues of the Kitchen
God that Chinese farmers traditionally worshipped. The executions reinforced the
CCP’s message that communist ideology was the only legitimate ideology and the
only legitimate faith. The concept of “patriotic” believers soon emerged. The
national constitution protected only “patriotic” believers. The reality was
whatever religion one believed in, there was only one criterion: you had to
follow the CCP’s instructions and you had to acknowledge that the CCP was above
all religions. If you were a Christian, the CCP was the god of the Christian
God. If you were a Buddhist, the CCP was the Master Buddha of the Master Buddha.
Among Muslims, the CCP was the Allah of the Allah. When it came to the Living
Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism, the CCP would intervene and itself choose who the
Living Buddha would be. The bottom line is, the CCP left you no choice but to
say and do what the CCP demanded you to say and do. All believers were forced to
carry out the CCP’s objectives while upholding their respective faiths in name
only. Failing to do so would become the target of the CCP’s crackdown and
dictatorship.
Twenty thousand Christians conducted a survey among 560,000 Christians in house
churches at 207 cities in 22 provinces in China. The survey found that among
house church attendees, 130,000 were under government surveillance. By 1957, the
CCP had killed over 11,000 religious adherents and had arbitrarily arrested and
extorted money from many more. By eliminating the landlord class and the
capitalist class and by persecuting large numbers of God-worshipping and
law-abiding people, the CCP cleared the way for Communism to become the
all-encompassing religion of China.
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IV. The Anti-rightist Movement—Nationwide Brainwashing
In 1956, a group of Hungarian intellectuals formed the Petofi Circle, which was
critical of the Hungarian government and participated in forums and debates. The
group sparked a nationwide revolution in Hungary, which was crushed by Soviet
solders. Mao Zedong took this as a lesson. In 1957, Mao called upon the Chinese
intellectuals and other non-communists to “help the CCP rectify itself.” This
movement, known as the “Hundred Flowers Movement” for short, followed the slogan
of “letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend.”
His purpose was to lure out “anti-Party elements among people.” In his letter to
provincial Party chiefs in 1957, Mao Zedong spoke his intention of “leading the
snakes out of their holes” by letting them air their views freely in helping the
CCP rectify itself.
Slogans at the time encouraged people to speak up and promised no reprisals—the
Party “won’t pick pigtails, won’t strike with a bat, won’t put on a hat, and
never settle an account afterwards.” [4] Yet later the CCP initiated an
“anti-rightist” movement, declaring 540,000 of the people who dared to speak up
as “rightists.” Among them, 270,000 lost their government jobs and 230,000 were
labeled as “medium rightists” or “anti-socialist elements.” Mao Zedong’s
political tricks in persecuting people included: duping those with dissenting
views into speaking up; fabricating crimes; sentencing people without any due
legal procedure; and claiming to be saving people, while actually relentlessly
attacking people.
What then were the “reactionary words” that had caused so many rightists and
anti-communists to be exiled for nearly 30 years in far-flung corners of the
nation? The “three major reactionary theories,” the targets of general and
intensive assaults at the time, consisted of a few speeches by Luo Longji, Zhang
Bojun, and Chu Anping. A closer look at what they proposed and suggested shows
that their wishes were quite benign.
Luo suggested forming a joint commission of the CCP and various “democratic”
parties to investigate the deviations in the “Three Anti Campaign” and “Five
Anti Campaign”, and the movements for purging reactionaries. The State Council
itself often presented something to the Political Consultative Committee and the
People’s Congress for observations and comments, and Zhang suggested the
Political Consultative Committee and the People’s Congress should be included in
the decision-making process.
Chu suggested that since non-CCP members also had good ideas, self-esteem, and a
sense of responsibility as well, there was no need across the nation to assign a
CCP member as the head of every work unit, big or small, or even for the teams
under each work unit. There was also no need that everything, major or minor,
had to be done the way the CCP members suggested. All three had expressed their
willingness to follow the CCP and none of their suggestions had exceeded the
boundaries demarcated by the famous words of writer and critic Lu Xun
(1881-1936), “My master, your gown has become dirty. Please take it off and I
will wash it for you.” Like Lu Xun, their words expressed docility,
submissiveness and respect.
None of the condemned “rightists” suggested that the CCP should be overthrown;
all they had offered was constructive criticism. Yet precisely because of these
suggestions, tens of thousands of people lost their freedom. What followed were
additional movements such as “confiding to the CCP,” digging out the hardliners,
the movement of the “Three New Anti,” sending intellectuals to the countryside
to do hard labor, and catching the rightists who were missed the first time
around. Whoever had a disagreement with the leader of the workplace would be
labeled as being anti-CCP. The CCP would often subject them to constant
criticism or send them to a labor camp for forced reeducation. Sometimes the
party relocated whole families to rural areas, or barred their children from
going to college or joining the army. They couldn’t apply for jobs in the county
that they lived in. The families would lose their job security and public health
benefits. They had been enrolled in the ranks of farmers and become outcasts
even among second-class citizens.
After the persecution of the intellectuals, some scholars developed a two-faced
personality. They followed closely the “Red Sun” and became the CCP’s
“court-appointed intellectuals,” doing or saying whatever the CCP asked. Some
others just distanced themselves from political matters. Chinese intellectuals,
who are supposed to have a sense of responsibility towards the nation, have been
silenced ever since.
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V. The Great Leap Forward – Creating Falsehoods to Test People’s Loyalty
After the Anti-Rightist Movement, China began to fear objective reality.
Everyone was involved in listening to falsehoods, telling falsehoods, making up
false stories, and avoiding and covering up the truth through lies and rumors.
The Great Leap Forward was a nationwide lie-telling exercise. The people of the
entire nation, under the direction of the CCP’s evil specter, did many
ridiculous things. Both liars and those being lied to were betrayed. In this
campaign of lies and ridiculous actions, the CCP implanted its violent, evil
energy into the minds of the intellectuals. At the time, many people sang the
song promoting the Great Leap Forward, “I am the Great Jade Emperor, I am the
Dragon King, I can move the mountains and rivers, here I come.” Policies such as
“achieving a grain production throughout of 75,000 kg per hectare,” “doubling
steel production,” and “surpassing Britain in 10 years and the US in 15 years”
were carried out year after year. These policies resulted in a great, nationwide
famine that cost millions of lives.
During the Lushan Plenum in 1959, all the participants felt that General Peng
Dehuai’s [5] opinion was correct and that the Great Leap Forward initiated by
Mao Zedong was foolish. However, no one dared to say anything. The decision to
support Mao’s policy or not marked the line between being loyal or a traitor, in
other words, the line between life and death. In ancient history, when Zhao Gao
[6] claimed that a deer was a horse, he knew the difference between a deer and a
horse, but he made the mistake purposefully to test and control public opinion.
The result of the Lushan Plenum was that even Peng Dehuai was forced to sign a
resolution condemning and purging himself from the central government.
Similarly, in the later years of Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping was forced
to guarantee that he would never appeal against the government’s decision to
remove him from his posts.
People normally learn from past lessons and experiences. However, the CCP has
censored the media, keeping people from having the chance to learn lessons from
the Chinese government’s policy mistakes. This has affected people’s minds,
diminishing their ability to think critically. During past movements, each
generation heard only the Party’s point of view and had no idea about opposing
schools of thought. As a result, new movements were judged based on a very
limited knowledge of history. The CCP has relied on censorship to keep people
ignorant so as to carry out its often violent ideology.
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VI. The Cultural Revolution – Turning the World Upside Down
One cannot discuss the possession of China by the evil specter of the CCP
without bringing up the Great Cultural Revolution. In 1966, a new wave of
violence occurred in China; the red terror ran out of control and covered every
corner of the country. Writer Qin Mu described the Cultural Revolution in bleak
terms:
It was truly an unmitigated disaster: [the CCP] imprisoned millions due to their
association with a [targeted] family member, ended the lives of millions more,
shattered families, turned children into hoodlums and villains, burned books,
tore down ancient buildings, and destroyed ancient intellectuals’ gravesites,
committing all kinds of crimes in the name of revolution.
Conservative figures place the number of unnatural deaths in China during the
Cultural Revolution at 7.73 million.
People often mistakenly think that the violence and slaughter during the Great
Cultural Revolution happened mostly during the rebel movements, and that it was
the Red Guards and Rebels who committed the slaughter. However, thousands of
officially published Chinese county annuals indicate that the peak of unnatural
deaths during the Cultural Revolution was not in 1966, when the Red Guards
controlled most of the government organizations, or in 1967 when the Rebels
fought among different groups with military weapons, but rather in 1968 when Mao
regained control over the country through levels of “revolutionary committees.”
The murderers in those infamous cases were often army officers and soldiers,
armed militiamen, and CCP members at all levels of the government.
The following examples illustrate how the violence during the Cultural
Revolution was the policy of the CCP and the Chinese government, not the
irregular, extreme behavior of the Red Guards. The CCP has covered up its own
direct involvement in the campaign and the instructions given by party leaders
and government officials.
In August of 1966, the Red Guards expelled Beijing residents who had been
classified in past movements as “landlords, wealthy farmers, reactionaries, bad
elements, and rightists” out of the city into the countryside. Incomplete
official statistics showed that 33,695 homes were searched and 85,196 Beijing
residents were expelled from the city to the countryside where their older
generations had originally come from. Red Guards all over the country carried
out this policy, expelling over 400,000 urban residents to the countryside. Even
high-ranking officials whose parents were landlords faced exile to the country.
Actually, the CCP planned the expulsion campaign even before the Cultural
Revolution began. Former Beijing mayor Peng Zhen declared that the residents of
Beijing city should be as ideologically pure as “glass panels and crystals,”
meaning that all residents with a bad political classification (that is, they or
their parents were labeled as “landlords, wealthy farmers, reactionaries, bad
elements, and rightists”) would be expelled out of the city. In May of 1966, Mao
commanded his subordinates to “protect the capital” and to set up a capital
working team, led by Ye Jianying, Yang Chengwu and Xie Fuzhi. One of the tasks
of this team was to use the police to expel Beijing residents with a bad
political classification.
This background helps make clear why the government and police departments did
not intervene but rather supported the Red Guards in searching homes and
expelling more than two percent of Beijing residents. The Minister of Public
Security, Xie Fuzhi, required the police not to intervene in the Red Guards’
actions but rather to provide advice and information to them. The Red Guards
were simply utilized by the party to carry out a planned action. The Red Guard
organizations were set up under the direct instruction of some party leaders.
Many notices issued by the Red Guards were revised and published by the State
Council. However, despite the previous support for the Red Guards, at the end of
1966 the CCP labeled many of them as counterrevolutionaries and imprisoned them.
Following the removal of the Beijing residents with a bad political
classification to the countryside, these individuals then faced increasing
persecution in the countryside. On August 26, 1966, a speech of Xie Fuzhi was
passed down to the Daxing Police Bureau. Xie ordered the police to assist the
Red Guards in the searching homes of the “five black classes” by providing
advice and information and helping in their raids.
The infamous Daxing Massacre [7] started directly from the instructions of the
police department; organizers were the director and the CCP secretary of the
police department, and the killers were mostly militiamen who did not even spare
the children.
Many were admitted into the CCP for their “good behavior” during the slaughter.
According to incomplete statistics for Guangxi province, about 50,000 CCP
members were involved in the slaughter. Among them more than 9,000 were admitted
into the Party within a short period of time after killing someone. More than
20,000 committed murder after being admitted into the Party, and more than
19,000 other Party members were related to killing one way or another.
During the Great Cultural Revolution, class theory would also be applied to
beatings. The bad deserved it if they were beaten by the good. It was honorable
for a bad person to beat another bad. It was a misunderstanding if a good person
beat another good person. Such a theory invented by Mao was spread widely in the
rebel movements. Violence and slaughter were widespread as a result of thinking
that the enemies of the class struggle deserved any violence against them.
From August 13 to October 7 of 1967, militiamen in Dao county of Hunan province
slaughtered members of the “Xiangjiang Wind and Thunder” organization and “five
black classes.” The slaughter lasted 66 days; more than 4,519 people in 2,778
households were killed in 468 divisions of 36 people’s communes in 10 districts.
A total of 9,093 people were killed in the area, of which 38% were of the “five
black classes” and 44% were the children of the “five black classes.” The oldest
person killed was 78 years old, and the youngest was only 10 days old.
This is only one case in one small area during the Cultural Revolution. In Inner
Mongolia, after the establishment of the “revolutionary committee” in early
1968, a class-purging movement against the “Inner People’s Party” killed more
than 350,000 people. In 1968, tens of thousands of people in Guangxi province
participated in the mass slaughtering of the “422 organization,” killing more
than 110,000.
These cases point out that those major acts of violent killing during the
Cultural Revolution were all under the direct instigation and instruction of CCP
leaders who utilized and allowed violence to persecute and kill citizens.
If during the Land Reform the CCP used peasants to overthrow landlords to obtain
land, during the Industrial and Commercial Reform the CCP used the working class
to overthrow capitalists to gain assets, and during the Anti-Rightists Movement
the CCP eliminated all intellectuals who held opposing opinions, then this kind
of fighting amongst the people during the Cultural
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