Marxism-Leninism Is a Heretical Doctrine, the CCP Is a Cult, and Communism Is an Even Greater Illusion

Understanding the Nature of the CCP’s Centralized Rule

[People News] The CCP rose to power on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and, under special historical conditions, seized political power. However, Marxism-Leninism has inherent flaws and fatal defects, making it destined to be incapable of achieving the ultimate ideal of communism. Those who still believe in Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought today are either intellectually deficient or “willfully blind.”

The origins of Marxism lie in German classical philosophy, British classical economics, and French utopian socialism. Marx added violent revolutionary regime change to utopian socialism, making the utopia seem feasible. For the laboring masses at the bottom of society to change their fate, the only path, in his view, was to seize power through violent revolution, implement a socialist system, and share social wealth.

To persuade workers and peasants to follow his doctrine, Marx first asserted that capitalism would inevitably perish. He believed that due to inherent social contradictions, capitalism would fall into prolonged economic crises, with each crisis more severe than the last and each cycle shorter than the previous one, eventually crushing capitalism itself.

If capitalism was destined to perish, what justified the certainty that it would be replaced by socialism? Marx therefore invented historical determinism. He insisted that human history must pass through primitive society, then slave society, then feudal society, then capitalist society, then enter socialist society, and finally arrive at communist society. Once human society reaches communism, it will no longer develop, because communism is the most ideal society—it is the end of human history.

Because this set of theories deeply resonated with the workers’ and peasants’ imagination of the future, and because violent revolution was the most direct and effective means of destroying the old world, Marx’s doctrines spread rapidly around the globe, creating a whirlwind of proletarian revolution that has harmed humanity for one or two hundred years and continues to do so to this day.

That Marx, working behind closed doors, could claim to point out the direction of human development and ignite a global communist frenzy is the greatest farce in human history. The problem is that Marx told workers and peasants how to seize power and how to practice socialism under the principle of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his labor,” but he did not design a mechanism to ensure the proper functioning of this entirely new society. In other words, violent revolution seized power, but Marx had no answer as to how workers and peasants would achieve genuine liberation.

From Russia to China, socialist revolutions led by communist parties seized political power. Yet the small group that seized power transformed from workers, peasants, and petty intellectuals into party and government officials wielding state authority, naturally becoming a new generation of elites. They detached themselves from the grassroots masses, alienated into a new ruling class obsessed with power games and dedicated to plundering social wealth. In the name of the people, they imposed dictatorship on the people, completely betraying Marxism’s original intent.

Marx’s limitation lay in his failure to understand that power corrupts. Only when power is supervised by the people can it serve the people. Without constraints and oversight of power, revolution ultimately becomes a poison that corrodes social mechanisms. Moreover, the system of universal public ownership implemented after revolution stifles economic vitality—revolution did not bring an increase in productive forces.

The loss of economic vitality, combined with the corrosion of government by power, delivers a double blow that leaves socialism without real space for development. The people are once again plunged into suffering from political oppression and economic exploitation. Socialism not only fails to bring physical and mental liberation, but instead brings endless spiritual torment and loss of life.

Look at the social reality of China today: does any Communist Party member still possess even the most basic moral integrity that a communist should have? So-called selflessness for the public good means great private gain with no public interest. The so-called communist principle of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” means the people give according to their ability, while officials take according to their needs. Communism has long ceased to be the lofty ideal of Chinese Communist Party members. If they truly still held such an ideal, how could the immense blessings of the descendants of red families be guaranteed?

The CCP has not spoken of communism for many years, because it would be nothing but a political joke. Whether in theory or in practice, communism is a colossal lie of the century—one that even the CCP itself does not believe in, let alone ordinary Chinese people. Yet the CCP still speaks of socialism, because it still wants to pursue universal public ownership, still wants the state to advance while the private sector retreats, and still wants to numb the people with the Party’s grand cause and national rejuvenation.

But if there is no lofty ideal of communism, what is socialism for? Is socialism not supposed to be the primary stage leading to communism? Could it be that after this primary stage there is no advanced stage, that one simply steps into thin air? If so, what is the Communist Party needed for at all?

Seen this way, Marxism-Leninism is nothing but a heretical doctrine, and the CCP, which adheres to Marxism-Leninism, is nothing but a cult. This cult has harmed China for more than seventy years, slaughtered tens of millions of Chinese people, and inflicted endless suffering on over a billion people. To this day, the Chinese people have not escaped the CCP’s demonic grip. Tracing it back to the root, it is all Marx’s fault.

Marxism-Leninism plus Mao Zedong Thought represents a concentration of evil from ancient and modern times, from China and abroad. Mao’s personal evil character was itself a fusion of the dregs of traditional Chinese culture and the cold-blooded concept of proletarian dictatorship. Mao’s personality shaped the CCP’s party character, giving rise to a uniquely Chinese socialist wellspring of evil. Over more than seventy years of wrongdoing, the CCP has built its regime with the flesh and blood of the Chinese people.

Today, the CCP is infamous worldwide for its autocratic and corrupt bureaucratic apparatus, and it makes the world wary with its belligerent, cold-blooded hegemonic behavior. For the CCP, whether communism exists has long ceased to matter; preserving its red regime is the ultimate goal. But if there is no communism, what are the Chinese people following the CCP for? Next door, capitalism safeguards human rights, bursts with economic and technological vitality, allows people democratic rights to participate in state affairs, and subjects government administration to strict legal constraints for the benefit of the people.

Capitalism is still developing. Some forms, such as in Northern Europe, have stronger socialist characteristics; others maintain classical capitalist traditions, such as in the UK and the US; still others blend their own national cultural traditions, such as Japan and South Korea. Each has its own emphasis and strengths. In other words, capitalism still possesses abundant vitality today—standing out economically, relatively stable politically, and flourishing culturally. In the competition among social systems, capitalism still leads far ahead.

Marx never experienced computers, the Internet, or artificial intelligence. What qualifications did he have to demand that we follow the path of social development he designated? No one knows whether human history has an end, where that end might be, or how we will reach it. The path of human development is an expression of the collective will of all humanity, the combined force of everyone’s spirit, and the sum of humanity’s collective unconscious. We can only let nature take its course and see where we arrive.

Only one thing is certain: humanity will never reach communism. Material civilization has no limits, while a high level of spiritual civilization is extremely difficult to achieve. Private desire can only be restrained by the rule of law; absolute selflessness has never existed. Even Marx and Lenin could not achieve it, let alone Mao, who was “a political hooligan plus a lifestyle hooligan” (the conclusion of Mao’s former wife Yang Kaihui). Mao was already so despicable—how much more so CCP cadres? CCP cadres do not believe in communism, let alone ordinary people.

What, then, is today’s socialism with Chinese characteristics? In a word, it is a nationwide corrupt and degenerate bureaucratic apparatus, it is the CCP’s exploitation and oppression of the people. With these two “benevolent policies,” is it possible for China to realize the great ideal of communism? Since it is impossible to move toward communism, why should the Chinese people follow the CCP so closely, and why should they allow themselves to be enslaved and driven by it?

Once you understand this, would you rather pursue communism at the cost of present-day happiness and joy, or would you rather strive for fairness and justice in the present world and abandon Marx’s imagined illusion? Making this choice is not difficult; what is difficult is breaking with yesterday’s self.

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