Posted on 09/30/2018 10:57:58 AM PDT by ETL
HUIZHOU, China They were exactly what Chinas best universities were supposed to produce: young men and women steeped in the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.
They read Marx, Lenin and Mao and formed student groups to discuss the progress of socialism. They investigated the treatment of the campus proletariat, including janitors, cooks and construction workers. They volunteered to help struggling rural families and dutifully recited the slogans of President Xi Jinping.
Then, after graduation, they attempted to put the partys stated ideals into action, converging from across China last month on Huizhou, a city in the south, to organize labor unions at nearby factories and stage protests demanding greater protections for workers.
Thats when the party realized it had a problem.
The authorities moved quickly to crush the efforts of the young activists, detaining several dozen of them and scrubbing the internet of their calls for justice but not before their example became a rallying cry for young people across the country unhappy with growing inequality, corruption and materialism in Chinese society.
You are the backbone of the working class! the protesters chanted at one rally, addressing workers at an equipment factory. We share your honor and your disgrace!
Protests are common in China, especially by workers who have nowhere else to turn in a nation without independent unions, courts or news media. ..."
Carrying portraits of Mao and singing socialist anthems, they espoused the very ideals that the government fed them for years in mandatory ideological classes, voicing grievances about issues like poverty, worker rights and gender equality some of communisms core concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, his ideas are taking a bigger role in the economy and society under Xi Jinping
https://www.ft.com/content/766d2a42-419d-11e8-803a-295c97e6fd0b
Anyone who looks at communism objectively can tell you why it will never work in the real world. People don’t just voluntarily share everything they have on a mass scale; it’s against human nature and common sense. It must be forced upon society by an all-powerful government. And the basic rule, power corrupts, is ever true and fanatically ignored by communist idealists.
So America and China have the same problem?
Chinas Helmsman President Xi Jinping wants the 1.4 billion people he leads to enthusiastically embrace the teachings of German philosopher Karl Marx, as part of a broader revival of the Communist Party.
Chinas strongman leader will make a speech to celebrate Marxs 200th birthday on Friday, and recently marked the 170th anniversary of his seminal work, The Communist Manifesto, by encouraging senior leaders to grasp the power of the truth of Marxism.
To further celebrate Chinas favourite Western philosopher, the state broadcaster has been carrying a special five-part program called Marx is Correct, in which Communist Party scholars lecture an audience of teenagers about traditional socialist doctrine. ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-04/china-xi-jinping-is-pushing-a-marxist-revival/9724720
According to the New York Slimes. Reality appears to be something different.
Yes, but China is not afraid to curbstomp its young Marxist fanatics.
I just posted two article excerpts here showing how the ChiComs are still communist.
During the Cultural Revolution, rival gangs of Red Guards often would fight each other.
Yes, but China is not afraid to curbstomp its young Marxist fanatics.
OR shoot the lot and anyone else nearby, grind the bodies up under the treads of tracked vehicles, pile the mush up, burn it, and washing it down the sewers
It always struck me as strange that Asians would so enthusiastically embrace a European political system.
Red Guards denounced each other over supposed lack of ideological purity:
“I denounce Comrade Wong! His Chairman Mao Quotations book is filled with names and addresses of girl comrades!”
They haven’t.
The Chinese have exaggerated aspects of their old imperial system and covered them with a veneer of orthodox Marxism.
The North Korean veneration of the Kim dynasty is akin to that of the old Korean monarchy, complete with mystical legends about its birth and extending exalted titles to their rulers in death.
June 4 marks the 29th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-Democracy protests that ended in bloodshed, and China has done its best to scrub the event from collective memory.
Ahead of Mondays anniversary, China has gone to great lengths to censor discussion about the tragedy in 1989, when Chinese troops killed unarmed pro-democracy protesters in the center of Beijing. (The exact death toll is in dispute, but some estimate that more than 1,000 protesters were killed.) ...
Stalin did the same thing. He was more like a Tsar than Lenin.
The NY Times should be very well versed in Communism.
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've got Daisey Maes?
That is the crux of the problem for communists both old and new
Very nice!
Xi doesn’t want protests.
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