100 years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party

This glorification of Chinese nationalism is utterly alien to the conceptions that guided the founding of the CCP, which was bound up with the Russian Revolution and the intervention of the Third International in China. Those youth and intellectuals who emerged from the May 4 movement to form the party were won to the understanding that the fight against imperialism was inseparable from the international struggle to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism. Its goal was world socialist revolution, not the reactionary nationalist conception—“the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”—that is the central element of Xi’s “dream.”

The documents of the first congress in 1921 elaborated the party’s basic principles: the overthrow of capitalism by the working class and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, leading to the abolition of classes, an end to the private ownership of the means of production, and unity with the Third International.

The claim that China, with its huge private corporations, stock markets and wealthy multi-billionaires, where private profit and the market dominate every aspect of life, represents “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” is farcical. Xi’s “dream” of a powerful Chinese nation has nothing to do with socialism or communism. It represents the ambitions of the super-rich oligarchs and wealthy elites that emerged with the restoration of capitalism in China under Deng Xiaoping from 1978 onward.

[wsws.org]

{The defeat of the KMT, the CCP’s seizure of power and its proclamation of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949 was the outcome of a momentous revolutionary upheaval in the world’s most populous nation. It was part of the revolutionary movements and anti-colonial struggles that erupted around the world in the aftermath of World War II, reflecting the determination of working people to put an end to the capitalist system that had produced two world wars and the Great Depression.}

During this same time period in the US these same 3 conditions were also creating our own socialist movement, eventually forcing Roosevelt to persuade the ruling class to restructure equality measures of their own misguidance of our nation. What little we have left of a socialize sense today, we can thank the then unions, socialist, and communist parties for. These entities later became under attack beginning in the 50's to diminish their benefits, especially the socialist and communist parties, then effectually the unions later towards the 80's.

Our lack of support from a long period of slothful compliance within a false comfort zone has landed us into todays war on socialism which the ruling class fears and intends to shut down at all cost. Even if it means major conflicts again.

{Workers were recruited to the CCP not to provide the working class with a political voice but to tighten its control over the working class.}

Workers were recruited into a fabricated infrastructure plan, but not just to produce a larger middle class, but to eventually lead them back to the capitalist. While in the shadows that capital class was building a massive military complex agenda that would take over the world, diminishing any worldly sense of a positive united existence. Propaganda was brought to new heights to manufacture citizen division even greater than anytime before to accomplish this world dominance.

{In all its contradictions and complexity, China’s history has confirmed the thesis of Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution that in countries with a belated capitalist development, subjected to imperialist oppression, the basic democratic and national tasks can be accomplished only by means of a socialist revolution, led by the working class and supported by the peasantry, as part of the fight for world socialism.}