"Without the Communist Party, there will be no China" was the title of a popular song during the Chinese civil war. Mao Zedong (毛澤東) said that the song's title was incorrect, since China existed before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came into being. The song's title was therefore changed to "Without the Communist Party, there will be no New China."
New China meant a free, democratic and happy China, free from the despotism, dictatorship and terror of the old China. The CCP held high the banner of freedom, democracy and happiness to win the hearts of the people, and become the government of China.
But the 80 years of the CCP have been 80 years of betrayal of the Chinese people and CCP members with ideals about liberal democracy.
The three generations of CCP leaders, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) and Jiang Zemin (江澤民), are the biggest traitors in Chinese history.
Before China had won the war against the Japanese and before the outbreak of the Chinese civil war, Mao publicly guaranteed that he would establish a "free and democratic China," and that "each level of its government ... will be produced through general, equal and anonymous elections, and it will be responsible to the people electing it. It will realize Abraham Lincoln's three principles `of the people, by the people and for the people' and the four freedoms of The Atlantic Charter -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from need and freedom from fear."
The Chinese people and the CCP membership believed him, and Chiang Kai-shek's (蔣介石) dictatorial rule was overthrown.
But Mao was more dictatorial and more lawless than Chiang. Mao controlled China for 27 years. His rule was tyrannical and more cruel than the rule of Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), the first emperor of China, and Stalin put together.
At the beginning of Deng Xiaoping's rule at the 11th plenary session of the third CCP central committee, Deng proposed "the systematization and legalization of democracy" and promised total reform of the political and economic system.
After he had consolidated his hold on power, he dethroned two successive secretaries-general, Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦) and Zhao Ziyang (趙紫陽). In his own words: "Choosing them was no mistake. Later, they committed mistakes in the implementation of the Four Basic Principles."
Put simply, the political reforms of Hu and Zhao threatened the autocracy of the CCP and the absolute power of Deng himself. He then used the Tiananmen massacre to silence all cries for liberal democracy among the Chinese people and inside the CCP.
In the midst of the bloodshed of the Tiananmen massacre, Jiang Zemin established the third generation leadership of the CCP. It lacked legitimacy from the start, and the only way to maintain "stability" was through extremeviolence and gross lies.
Jiang was lucky enough to arrive in time for the globalization of international capital. When the greedy bosses of multinational companies saw the extremely cheap and boundless labor resources under the control of the Chinese totalitarian system, they all started foaming at the mouth.
In communist China, not only is it possible to hire cheap and good labor that can be ordered about at will, it is also possible to hire cheap and good domestic servants who can be ordered about at will.
Accordingly, large amounts of foreign capital flowed into China, combining with the huge amount of cheap labor available to create the "Chinese economic miracle." The communist China of today is an "earthly paradise" of slave labor and slave services, providing the capitalists of the world with the highest profits and the highest pleasure.
This slave empire of Jiang's, where the world's richest people rule the world's poorest, is the ultimate caricature of Karl Marx.
According to Marx, the free development of the individual is the condition for the free development of all people.
According to Jiang, prohibiting the free development of every Chinese citizen is the condition for providing the free development of capital and privileges.
Jiang calls the free development of every Chinese "bourgeois liberalization" and "social turmoil factors" that should be "nipped in the bud." The purpose for doing so is that he wants to support the "stability" of his one-party authoritarian system on the last available pillar -- international capital.
It is only by eliminating the slave empire of this one-party autocracy that there will be freedom for all Chinese, and a new China.
Ruan Ming is a visiting professor at Tamkang University and a former special assistant to late Chinese Communist Party secretary-general Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦).
Translated by Perry Svensson
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