 Ying Chun 1 July 2021 (Translator’s preface: This article,
published only a few days ago on the Red China website inside China, is
evidence of the growing voice of defenders of Marxism-Leninism and the works
of Chairman Mao within China itself. I have added some footnotes to assist
readers. Any mistakes in the
translation are my own. The author’s name is a pseudonym meaning “Welcome
Spring” – an optimistic name for sure.) The current disaster of revisionist rubbish in our country must be
thoroughly cleaned up with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Old and new
revisionism have some things in common: dressing up as Marxism against Marxism;
"sacrificing the fundamental interests of the proletariat for practical
or conceivable momentary gains"; concealing political views and engaging
in eclecticism, etc. First, Dressing up as Marxism and opposing
Marxism In his article
"The Historical Destiny of the Doctrine of Karl Marx", Lenin
pointed out that "The dialectics of history
were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies
to disguise themselves as Marxists."[1] The current
revisionism in our country has inherited this feature of the old revisionism. The victory of Mao
Zedong in leading the Chinese revolution has forced the revisionists not to
oppose Mao nakedly, especially his theory of continuing revolution, but to
dress up as advocates of Mao Zedong's thought to oppose the continuing
revolutionary Mao Zedong. This is the basic characteristic of the current
revisionism in China. Mao Zedong not only
led the Chinese Communist Party to victory in the New Democratic Revolution
and the establishment of New China, but also founded the theory of continuing
revolution, launched the Cultural Revolution, and led the Chinese Communist
Party and the working masses towards the advanced stage of communist society,
to seize the complete victory of communism, which is intolerable to the
democratic revolutionaries, and therefore the current revisionism is
characterised by the support of Mao Zedong Thought in the name of opposing
the socialist revolutionary stage of Mao Zedong, his theory of continuing
revolution and the Cultural Revolution movement. The most
concentrated manifestation of opposition to Mao during the socialist stage
was the suppression of Maoists who insisted on continuing the revolution, or
"Maoists" for short. A typical example of this was the suppression
of such outstanding Communist Party members as Zhang Qianfu. Comrade Zhang
Qianfu, a good student and fighter of Maoism, was sentenced to three years'
imprisonment by the Jinshui District People's Court in Zhengzhou City, Henan
Province, for "defamation" in 2004 after writing the article
"Mao Zedong - Our Leader Forever ". Zhang Qianfu (formerly known as
Zhang Ruchuan) pointed out: "In the hometown of the great Mao Zedong and
Mao Zedong Thought, in the People's Republic of China, which is under the
rule of the Communist Party of China founded and led by Mao Zedong for a long
period of time, the first case since the founding of the country has been brought
in defence of the memory of Chairman Mao Zedong, the great contemporary
Marxist and great leader and mentor of the Chinese proletariat and people of
all races, for believing in, propagating and defending Mao Zedong Thought,
opposing modern revisionism, defending the socialist system and opposing the
restoration of capitalism. The 'crime' of being sentenced 'according to law'
has finally been branded with the 'socialism with Chinese characteristics '
brand of history." This is "ironclad evidence" that the
capitalist roaders within the Communist Party oppose Mao Zedong. After the death of
Chairman Mao, facts abound about the suppression of comrades in the Party and
in society who adhered to the socialist path by those in power who followed
the capitalist path, so I won't recount them all. Second, adhere to
the "ultimate goal is nothing, the movement is everything"
revisionist fallacy Bernstein's "the
ultimate goal is nothing, the movement is everything", in our country
has been developed into "it doesn’t matter whether it is a black cat or
a white cat, so long as it catches mice ", "the essence of
socialism is to liberate and develop the productive forces" and so on. As
Lenin said: " ‘The movement is everything, the ultimate aim is nothing’—this
catch-phrase of Bernstein’s expresses the substance of revisionism better
than many long disquisitions. To determine its conduct from case to case, to
adapt itself to the events of the day and to the chopping and changing of
petty politics, to forget the primary interests of the proletariat and the
basic features of the whole capitalist system, of all capitalist evolution,
to sacrifice these primary interests for the real
or assumed advantages of the moment—such is the policy of revisionism." This is a common feature of both old
and new revisionism. Lenin further pointed out in his article Marxism and
Revisionism: "A natural complement to the
economic and political tendencies of revisionism was its attitude to the
ultimate aim of the socialist movement. ‘The movement is everything, the
ultimate aim is nothing’".
(Selected Works of Lenin, Vol. II pp. 439, 7)[2] The capitalist
roaders in China secretly changed their concepts and described the Communist
Party’s goal of eliminating capitalism and establishing a communist society
as "building a well-off society"; what did they say about the
transition from capitalism to communism and the advanced stage of communism?
"Get rich", "get stronger", etc. They said: "Socialism
is not characterized by poverty, but by wealth, but this wealth is the common
prosperity of the people." This is typical of "sacrificing the
fundamental interests of the proletariat for the sake of real or conceivable
momentary gains", but it is also a substitute for the elimination of the
capitalist social system and the bourgeoisie by "being poor" and
"being rich", and the elimination of private ownership by making a
few small fortunes. This is a typical case of "sacrificing the
fundamental interests of the proletariat for practical or conceivable
momentary gains". 3, Concealing
political views and engaging in eclecticism are common to both old and new
revisionism The Communist Manifesto
states that "Communists disdain to conceal their views and
intentions." On April 2, 1948, Chairman Mao spoke to the editors of Jinyu
Daily and said, "We must firmly uphold the
truth, and truth requires a clear-cut stand. We Communists have always
disdained to conceal our views."[3] The
revisionists in our country, however, in the name of supporting Mao Zedong's
thought but in reality opposing Mao's continuing revolution, are bound to
conceal their political views and use the tactic of eclecticism to deceive
the masses. They try by all means to conceal and obliterate the fundamental
opposition between Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Deng Xiaoping's theory; to
conceal the fact that the Resolution[4]
denies the theory of the continuing revolution and the Cultural Revolution,
saying that the 30 years before and after are not mutually exclusive, etc. The current
revisionism in China also has its own characteristics: using resounding
language and flamboyant rhetoric to cover up the revolutionary content of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism with revisionism; changing the goal of the Communist
Party's struggle from communism to a moderately prosperous society, etc.;
while highly praising the Chinese Communist Party, they have stripped away
the soul of the Communist Party, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and stripped away
the two "decisives".[5] They
are afraid of the class struggle and avoided it as if it were the new Corona
virus, turning the Communist Party, the tool of the proletariat for class
struggle, into a tool for wielding power and getting rich. In short, as
revisionism is currently rife in our country, the scientific theory of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism must be used to cleanly and thoroughly clean up the
revisionist rubbish so that the Communist Party can lead the working masses
in a great stride towards a communist society! |
[5] These are the two main historical tasks of the proletariat in the sphere of social relations of production and ideology. Marx and Engels put forward this important point in the Communist Manifesto: "The communist revolution is the most radical break with traditional relations of ownership, and not surprisingly, it. The two ruptures profoundly articulate the basic task and endeavour of the communist revolution. The traditional system of ownership - private ownership - is the root cause of the exploitation and oppression of the proletariat, which can only be fundamentally liberated by breaking up the old state apparatus and eliminating private ownership and replacing it with communist public ownership. The traditional concept of dependence on private ownership is not a phenomenon common to all societies, and with the establishment of public ownership of the means of production, the ideology of society will also undergo a fundamental change, and the traditional concept will inevitably be replaced by a new communist ideology.
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