Characteristics Of Communism

China's Communist Party 90th Anniversary: Grappling With Ideology In New Era ...

By Bhaskar Roy

From a 50-member Party founded in July 1921, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has grown to a mammoth organization with over 78 million members.

It could have grown much bigger had not its organization department put strict criteria. As laid down by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping the selection process emphasizes youth, education and vitality. Party members always enjoyed an advantage over others. In the earlier years ideology was the main driving force. Today, however, ideological rigidity is being debated. For senior leaders the pitching of ideology in certain forms is done for their career progression. For the youth, it is also the same – better jobs, faster promotion as well as influence. But there is also a large exception who hold Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong thought as China’s religion.

Overall, therefore, diverse interest groups come together to ensure that the primacy of the CPC is not diminished. Which interest group or groups dominate at a particular time is another question, but it is again Deng who ensured, with personal example, that no individual or group will fully dominate at any time as Mao Zedong and the “Gang of Four” did.

For the veteran Long Marchers alive today, the times are perplexing. Most of them who held some senior positions were persecuted during Mao’s Great People’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), but that is not the point. For them, Mao’s ultra-leftism, his disastrous economic policy (1958), the “Great Leap Forward” and the earlier policy of “Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought prevail”, launched to identify his intellectual opponents and demolish them, were sins against the Chinese people. But Communism, Marxism and the CPC delivered the Chinese people from feudalism and united the country. Today’s China with widespread corruption, increasing wealth gap and neglect of the workers and peasants when millionaires are born every day, dismays them. The only candle in the wind for them is that they still have some followers among the present generation.

Following Mao’s death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping, who was purged from the Party three times by Mao, ensured that the CPC officially judge him 70 percent good and 30 percent bad. There was no denying Mao’s great contribution to the new China. At the same time, Mao was ruthless and even attacked his most loyal servant, Premier Zhou Enlai, as a “Capitalist roader”. The problem with Mao was he never trusted anybody, and after the desecration of Stalin’s Mausoleum in the Soviet Union, he began to see ghosts in all who voiced an independent opinion as Russian and Western influenced leaders out to overthrow him. Deng Xiaoping had spent time in Paris, Zhou Enlai was perceived to have been influenced by Henry Kissinger, Marshal Peng Dehuai as close to Moscow, and his putative successor Liu Shaoqi as Western oriented and upper class.

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Yang Shangkun

Yang Shangkun was a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, staunch Marxist party, the state and an outstanding leader of the People’s Army. His devotion to the revolution more than 70 years, the Chinese people’s liberation and the construction industry contributed their life energy, the new era of reform and opening up and socialist modernization drive, to make a significant contribution. Yang Shangkun life is brilliant, fighting life.

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contribution to the life of life assessment in 1907 was born in Sichuan Province, Yang Shangkun Tongnan double-Town (now Chongqing). 1920 admitted to the Chengdu Normal University

Yang Shangkun

school to school, then transferred to middle school. At that time, Chengdu Higher Normal School principals are Yuzhang, teachers have Yun Daiying and so on. In school, he met many progressive young people to participate in the social sciences book club, read the 1925, 18-year-old Yang Shangkun Teachers graduated from Chengdu back to Chongqing. At that time, China’s Revolution is the climax. Yang Kung he Mahone Executive Committee of the CPC Sichuan, where one of the founders. In Mahone’s influence and help, he began to participate in revolutionary work. 1925 joined the Communist Youth League, Communist Party of China into early 1926. Since then, he dedicated his life to the Chinese people’s liberation and magnificent cause of communism. Spring of 1926, Yang Shangkun into the party led by Shanghai University. He actively participated in the Shanghai workers for the first time, the second armed uprising of the preparatory work. In November, selected by the party, he went to Moscow Sun Yat-sen learning. In school, served as squad leader, branch members, the rank of vice minister of propaganda, more systematic study of Marxist-Leninist theory. In 1929, he and Zhao Li Po marriage in the Soviet Union. In 1930, the Soviet Union admitted to the Institute of China to do post-graduate, also serves as staff representative of the international Chinese translation. The beginning of 1931, Yang Shangkun back-suffering country, served as Minister of Trade Unions propaganda, party secretary of Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions Federation of the post in the Kuomintang areas of dangerous conditions, and actively restore trade unions, party members.

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