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| Xi Jinping In Translation: China's Guiding Ideology |
| 2019-07-14 |
| Click through to read this for an in-depth look at what Xi really believes and what he wants. It's dry. [PalladiumMag] One of the most striking aspects of this speech is the language Xi Jinping invokes: party members must have "faith" (xìnyǎng) in the eventual victory of socialism; proper communists must be "devout" (qiánchéng) in their work; and Party members must be prepared to "sacrifice" (xīshēng) everything, up to their own blood, for revolutionary "ideals that reach higher than heaven" (gémìng lǐxiǎng gāo yú tiān). Behind this religiously charged language is a man deeply worried that the cadres of his generation are not prepared to make the sort of sacrifices their parents and grandparents did for China’s revolutionary cause. Xi’s verdict is that such people do not have enough faith in the "eventual demise of capitalism and the ultimate victory of socialism." Their "views lack a firm grounding in historical materialism," leading them to doubt that "socialism is bound to win." This has practical consequences. The cadre without communist convictions will act "hedonistically" and "self-interestedly." Worst of all, he might begin to believe "false arguments that we should abandon socialism" altogether. For Xi, this would be a grave betrayal of the Party’s heritage. The Communist Party of China is tasked with "building a socialism that is superior to capitalism" whose economic and technological prowess will give it "the dominant position" in world affairs. And though Xi asserts that this is inevitable, "the road will be tortuous." Party members must fiercely fend off ideological attacks on socialism with Chinese characteristics. The most pressing ideological problems identified in this speech are two ’false arguments:’ First, that the mass death, cruelty, and poverty of Maoist China undermines the credibility of the Party leadership today, and second, that socialism with Chinese characteristics is not really socialism at all. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy |
| #2 Interesting. I always saw Xi's State-Corporate machine as a kind of Taoist fascism. A come-what-may, pig-headed policy of expansion of capital and resources to the ends of the earth, in search of some abstruse idea of perfection. What does Marx have to do with Zhongnanhai? Very little. One must understand that all 'isms' are ultimately semantic excuses. Justifications and banners to unite the gullible masses behind some historic ideal or icon. What worked for a sick and beaten down China after Britain and Japan were through with her, was the 'revolutionary' theme. Today, there's no revolution. It's a police state, like most other large states. They, like China claim to be based on true liberal socialist ideals, but are they ? In fact, there can be no such thing as a liberal state without the idea of 'res publica' as the substratum of Government. Anything like China leads to heavy handedness and near fascist coercion. Ping's calls for faith and sacrifice are more attempts to reinforce the resolves of both the 'in-on-it' oligarchs and the loyal fascist gendarmerie towards a bitter time that has come their way. The circumlocution around marxist themes and merging Chinese ethos with communist ideal is just filibuster. It doesn't mean anything anymore, except a public relations exercise. I doubt Xinping ponders the specifics of the communist ideal himself, he seems to only care about "One nation under heaven". Now that's a typical, crude Chinese ideal. All the domestic and external policies of China so far have been extremely materialist, with no care for the environment or even their own future generations, which the party sees as more fodder for the machine. It has spread and prospered unchecked, only thanks to the self obsessed, navel gazing democracies of the post-war world. It went on in its path to greatness because it said "Fuck Democracy" and thundered ahead at the cost of it's people, who by now must be quite expectant of the returns in their investment. But thanks to a disruptive force growing called majoritarian government (that seeks to reverse pacifist, pansy policies of earlier regimes) in the world And it's everywhere, from the US to Italy and India , leaders are making changes to secure the continuity of resources and capital for their own people, and China sees it's momentum built on imaginary achievements and bullying others challenged. In short, time has come for China to put their money where their bullshit spewing mouth is. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-14 12:18 |
| #1 Party members must be prepared to "sacrifice" (xīshēng) everything, up to their own blood Everybody's else blood first? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-07-14 12:02 |