Posted on 02/15/2013 7:28:48 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Beijing: China's new Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has warned cadres of a Soviet-style collapse if the party is confronted with ideological dissent, military disloyalty and corruption, the deadly mix that led to the dramatic disintegration of once mighty Soviet Union.
China must heed the still "deeply profound" lessons of the former Soviet Union, where political rot, ideological heresy and military disloyalty brought down the governing party, Xi, 59, reportedly told party leaders during his tour of Guangdong province in December last year soon after his election as the General Secretary of the ruling party a month before.
"Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered," the New York Times, which has obtained the summary of his comments, quoted Xi as saying.
Official media, which covered his visit to China's richest province, did not publicise his remarks.
"Finally, all it took was one quiet word from (the last Soviet leader) Mikhail Gorbachev to declare the dissolution of the Soviet Communist Party, and a great party was gone," he said about the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Communist Party in 1991.
"In the end, nobody was a real man, nobody came out to resist," Xi said, referring to the collapse of the mighty Soviet Union after the 74-year-long rule by the Soviet Communist Party.
About Chinese Communist Party whose iron-fisted rule of the country entering 64th year, he said, "We're a major power, and we absolutely cannot allow any subversive errors when it comes to the fundamental issues."
In some ways, Xi's warnings were not new as the lessons of the Soviet collapse are part of the curriculum of schools run by the CPC to enlighten its cadre about hidden dangers and threats to the party's rule.
"The Soviet Communist Party collapsed in 1991 after 74 years in power. It is a wake-up call for the CPC and a very good lesson to be learnt," Zhou Jintang, the vice president of the China Executive Leadership Academy at Jiangxi province, told visiting Foreign Journalists few months ago.
The Academy, one of six established by the CPC, trains around 5,000 middle rung party leaders and officials from the military, government business every year in various aspects of ideological education.
Ever since he took over as Party leader, Xi, currently the Vice President, has been warning the party about rot setting in its ranks reminding them about "cyclical fall of rulers" throughout Chinese history.
In one of his meetings with the non-Communist parties, Xi also narrated an ancient Chinese saying which stated "things must have gone rotten before insects can grow" while asking his party-men to stay clean and self-disciplined.
Vowing to carry forward reforms, he has also been cautioning about any ideological confusion in the CPC in the backdrop of disgraced Party leader, Bo Xilai, who, before his fall last year, tried to resurrect old Maoist hardline ideology playing up on the growing rich-poor divide.
Since his election, Xi has also been insisting that the country's 2.3-million-strong PLA, the world's largest Army, should remain under the leadership of the party and cannot have an independent command structure.
After taking over as party chief, Xi also took over as the Chairman of the Military Commission, which controlled the armed forces.
He is due to take over as President after the retirement of Hu Jintao, making him the most powerful leader of the party in recent years.
Hu had to wait for two years to become head of the Military Commission after his election as party chief ten years ago.
In one of his addresses to the military last month, Xi called for absolute loyalty to the CPC.
He really ought to worry about the granddaddy of all real estate bubbles. China has squandered over $1 trillion of capital building whole cities of apartments, retail space and public facilities. They sit empty and deteriorating with no return on investment. Also most of its urban real estate, upon which huge loans have been made, is greatly overvalued. The communist state planners have made some huge mistakes and those mistakes may be what brings them down.
Tear down this China Wall.
In one of his addresses to the military last month, Xi called for absolute loyalty to the CPC.
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Xi is right about this.
China is in danger of going the way of the Japanese in the early 20th century. at that time the civilian government was more powerful than the military. but after a couple of victories the military became more powerful than the civilian government.
China must heed the still "deeply profound" lessons of the former Soviet Union, where political rot, ideological heresy and military disloyalty brought down the governing party, Xi, 59, reportedly told party leaders during his tour of Guangdong province in December last year soon after his election as the General Secretary of the ruling party a month before.The USSR collapsed because it only *had* one party. That is the only lesson that needs to be learned.
‘”Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered,” the New York Times, which has obtained the summary of his comments, quoted Xi as saying. ‘
The New York Times: they’ve never wavered in their socialist convictions and ideals!
In the battle of ideas in China the truth is that Chiang defeated Mao in the end. The current political and economic structure in the People’s Republic mirrors what Chiang Kai Shek strove to create, far from the one Mao had in mind.
It’s interesting that the fall of the Soviet Union is offered as a bogeyman. Russia’s economy went into a severe, 6-year-long recession, but the per-capital GDP is now twice what it was at the fall of the Soviet Union. Other former soviet states have seen even more remarkable growth. Once relying heavily on grain imports, Russia is now the world’s 3rd largest exporter of food, after the United States and the European Union. Trade in vices is down, the once-collapsing birth rate is recovering (an indication of hopefulness), abortion is still legal yet has nearly disappeared anyway. Suicide has dropped 40%, and life expectancy is at an all-time high (69 years old).
If China goes the way of the USSR, where will the United Socialist States of America borrow money from?
Too true! Hopefully, the current wave of Nationalist nostalgia will leave Mao’s legacy high and dry.
The CPC is a Chinese nationalist party... as Maoism receded and private property has taken root along with the rule of law and orderly succession of power, the party’s primary sources of legitimacy is appealing to traditional Chinese sentiment and culture and defending Chinese prosperity and sovereignty.
Marxism has little relevance for party cadres, bureaucrats and government officials. The party’s main concerns are fighting corruption, avoiding internal infighting and making sure the party remains a good manager of the economy. Failure to address these issues could bring down the party. Xi faces a very difficult job in managing these expectations and satisfying an increasingly diverse nation of a billion people.
There’s a worldwide economic collapse coming, and it won’t be pretty!
Bo Xilai
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In a silly mood this morning, I guess. I know nothing about Chinese pronunciation, but I read that name as pronounced like the wine Beaujolais.
USSR collapsed because it was run by a bunch of intellectually inbred commiescum.
That’s the lesson we need to learn here.
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