It’s a totalitarian society - no free speech, no freedom of religion or politics.
“Primary symbols” are determined by the party and forced on the populace by the party.
So there are not any true natural “symbols”.
“Xi Jinping’s father, once a Vice Premier of China, was himself purged by Mao, exiled, and then jailed during the Cultural Revolution. Xi’s actual policies as a provincial Party Secretary and many early decisions as the new national leader would clearly have been anathema to Mao. Yet some have speculated that Xi is in fact a neo-Maoist, pointing to his frequent references to “Mao Zedong thought” in speeches, visits to Mao landmarks, and revival of the Maoist concept of the ‘mass line.’”
Thanks for posting! The above outtake from the OP is very telling— and indicative of the typical blindness of today’s neo-communists! NO communist government / socialist economy ever works, and thus is forced to retreat to capitalism in order to survive. Yet every communist remains a True Believer, even when their own family has been brutalized by communism.
The population of China knows the CCP is corrupt, and they wish things would change. However, the PLA is too strong, and the WuJing are everywhere.
Ma’s Dragonfly Eye AI system has permeated nearly every city now, and even still the public anger is growing. Dissent is growing. Passive resistance is everywhere now too.
The virus could very well be the catalyst to bring freedom to China.
A free China without the communists is in this planets best interest.
In bourgeois society … the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. […]That’s from the second chapter of the Communist Manifesto. The “problems” are by design.
“Undoubtedly,” it will be said, “religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change. There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.” …
I remember once “arguing” with a Chinese Gov’t cadre, who was in the Party before 1949. My argument was that China is surely more than just the CCP and Government. After all, Chinese say their nation has existed for 5000 years, while the CCP has been around at most, since 1921.
His argument was that the party, government and nation are one. He actually (unwittingly) used Christ’s parable of the grain of wheat - that it was necessary that the old grain died, but was transformed with the CCP, to produce a bountiful field of wheat.
[To an extent that outsiders rarely understand, China’s leaders and people see the world through the lens of a terrible “century of humiliation” that China suffered at the hands of Western powers and Japan between the 1840’s and 1940’s.]