Nine Commentaries: The True Nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

By Rich Kozlovich

I stopped posting links some time back in order to reduce my work load, and now I'm only posting full articles that are sent to me or I have permission to post. However, I'm making an exception here.

I saw this in 2022, and posted it, but not in this way, because believe it or not, the HTML in this is really complicated.  So, I've spent a lot of time isolating the articles and deleting a bunch of HTML, reorganizing the material in HTML mode, and redoing the pictures in order for it all to work and fit in P&D.  It's been a pain. 

Remember, these articles were published in 2012 and 2013, with some updates, so not all of this applies exactly now.  A lot has happened since then, and you will see writers who are in love with traditional Chinese culture and values, so some of this is more self serving than straight up history.  But that's true everywhere, so no matter who we're reading it's incumbent on us to know the details, and the reality of those details.  

Chinese history has fascinated me for years, and I've spent an inordinate amount of time reading their history, which is complicated, and I was even asked to do two podcasts about China a couple of years ago.  In order to understand China today, it's necessary to not only understand the last almost 75 years of communist rule, it's necessary to understand the underlying social paradigms of the people of China, which haven't entirely been destroyed by the CCP.  

The big thing to take away from all this is how easily the people of China succumbed to the most vile and corrupt governmental system ever imposed on any people, communism, which along with Islam, has been the only system of government to totally live up to it's standard.  

Murderous tyranny.  

Western civilization has never lived up to the standards of Judaic/Christian ethics, which is why leftists can use our own values against us.  But it's like capitalism, which has been called the worst system of economics there is.....except for all the others, the Judaic/Christian world with all it's flaws and imperfections still offers most the acceptable imperfection the world has to offer.  Enjoy, and reflect.

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party–Introduction - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

The CCP’s rule is the darkest and the most ridiculous page in Chinese history. By understanding the true history of the CCP, we can help prevent such tragedies from ever recurring.  The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party were first published in November of 2004, followed quickly by an English translation. In 15 years, the series has led over 300 million Chinese to renounce the communist party and its affiliated organizations, fostering an unprecedented peaceful movement for transformation and change in China. People continue to renounce the party every day. Here we republish the newly re-edited Nine Commentaries, linked to video versions produced by our partner media NTD Television.  For the other Commentaries, please see the Table of Contents...............

Commentary 1: On What the Communist Party Is -  May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

The CCP, an evil possessing specter supported by force, deception, and the frequent change of its appearance and images, has now shown signs of decay.

For over 5,000 years, the Chinese people created a splendid civilization on the land nurtured by the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. During this long period of time, dynasties came and went, and the Chinese culture waxed and waned. Grand and moving stories have played out on the historical stage of China...................

Commentary 2: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party -  May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

According to the book “Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters,”[1]  the traditional Chinese character “dang,” meaning “party” or “gang,” consists of two radicals that correspond to “promote or advocate” and “dark or black,” respectively...........

Why did the Communist Party emerge, grow, and eventually seize power in contemporary China? The CCP has constantly instilled into the Chinese people’s minds that history chose the CCP, that the people chose the CCP, and that “without the CCP there would be no new China.”

Did the Chinese people choose the Communist Party? Or did the Communist Party “gang up” and force Chinese people to accept it? We must find answers from history............Like people who turn to any available doctor in times of illness, they looked outside China for a solution. When the British and French styles failed, they switched to the Russian method. They did not hesitate to prescribe the most extreme remedy for the illness, in the hope that China would quickly become strong.......It is unclear whether the founders of the CCP were aware at the time that the “deity” they had introduced from the Soviet Union was in reality an evil specter, and the remedy they sought for strengthening the nation was actually a deadly poison........

Commentary 3: On the Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

What can Emperor Qin Shihuang brag about? He only killed 460 Confucian scholars, but we killed 46,000 intellectuals... - Mao Zedong. 

When speaking about tyranny, most Chinese people are reminded of Qin Shi Huang (259–210 B.C.), the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, whose oppressive court burnt philosophical books and buried Confucian scholars alive. Qin Shi Huang’s harsh treatment of his people came from his policy of “supporting his rule with all of the resources under heaven.[1]”

This policy had four main aspects: excessively heavy taxation, wasting human labor for projects to glorify himself, brutal torture under harsh laws and punishing even the offenders’ family members and neighbors, and controlling people’s minds by blocking all avenues of free thinking and expression through burning books and even burying scholars alive.

Under the rule of Qin Shi Huang, China had a population of about 10 million; Qin’s court drafted over 2 million to perform forced labor. Qin Shi Huang brought his harsh laws into the intellectual realm, prohibiting freedom of thought on a massive scale. During his rule, thousands of Confucian scholars and officials who criticized the government were killed..............

Commentary 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

In the last hundred years, the sudden invasion by the communist specter has created a force against nature and humanity, causing limitless agony and tragedy. It has also pushed civilization to the brink of destruction. Having committed all sorts of atrocities that violate the Tao and oppose heaven and the earth, it has become an extremely malevolent force against the universe................

But the Communist Party promotes humans over nature and a philosophy of struggle in defiance of heaven, the earth, and nature. Mao Zedong said, “battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy.” Perhaps the Communist Party did acquire real joy from these struggles, but the people have paid tremendously painful costs.................

Commentary 5: On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff 

In planning the strategy of the suppression, Jiang Zemin put three policies in place regarding Falun Gong practitioners:

 

“ruin their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically.”

 Ms. Zhang Fuzhen, about 38 years old, was an employee of Xianhe Park, Pingdu City, Shandong Province, China. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 2000 and was later abducted by the authorities.

According to people with knowledge of the case, the police tortured and humiliated Zhang Fuzhen, stripping her naked and shaving her whole head. They kept her tied to a bed with her four limbs stretched out, and she was forced to relieve herself on the bed.  Later, the police gave her an injection of an unknown poisonous drug. After the injection, Zhang was in so much pain that she nearly went insane. She struggled in great pain on the bed until she died. The whole process was witnessed by the local officials of the 610 Office...............[more examples of the CCP's crimes against humanity follow].........

These startling tragedies occurred in modern-day China. They happened to Falun Gong practitioners, who are being brutally persecuted, and they are just a few of the countless torture cases that have taken place over the past five years of continuous persecution. [Note: When this was published, Falun Gong had been persecuted in China for five years; it has now been persecuted for more than 11 years.]

Since China began economic reforms in the late 1970s, the CCP has endeavored to build a positive, liberal image in the international community. However, the persecution of Falun Gong over the last [11 plus] years, which has been bloody, irrational, widespread, vehement, and brutal, has enabled the international community to once again witness the true face of the CCP and the biggest disgrace on the CCP’s human rights record...........

Commentary 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

China is the only country in the world whose ancient civilization has been passed down for over 5,000 years. Destruction of its traditional culture is an unforgivable crime.......Traditional Chinese culture sought harmony between man and the universe and emphasized an individual's ethics and morality......Unlike law, which prescribes hard rules, culture works as a soft constraint. The law enforces punishment after a crime has been committed, while culture, by nurturing morality, prevents crimes from happening in the first place. A society’s morality is often embodied in its culture........

Since attaining power in 1949, the CCP has devoted the nation’s resources to destroying China’s traditional culture. This ill intention did not come from the CCP’s zeal for industrialization, nor from simple foolishness in worshiping Western civilization.

Rather, it came from the CCP’s inherent ideological opposition to traditional Chinese culture. Thus, the CCP’s destruction of Chinese culture has been planned, well organized, and systematic, supported by the state’s use of violence. Since its establishment, the CCP has never stopped “revolutionizing” Chinese culture in the attempt to destroy its spirit completely.............

Commentary 7: On the Chinese Communist Party’s History of Killing -May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff 

The 55-year history of the CCP is written with blood and lies. The stories behind this bloody history are both extremely tragic and rarely known. Under the rule of the CCP, 60 to 80 million innocent Chinese people have been killed, leaving their broken families behind. Many people wonder why the CCP kills.  While the CCP recently suppressed protesting crowds in Hanyuan with gunshots [in November 2004] and continues its brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, many people wonder whether they will ever see the day when the CCP will learn to speak with words rather than guns. Mao Zedong summarized the purpose of the Cultural Revolution: 

“After the chaos the world reaches peace, but in seven or eight years, the chaos needs to happen again.” 

 In other words, there should be a political revolution every seven or eight years, and a crowd of people needs to be killed every seven or eight years.............

Commentary 8: On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff 

 The CCP is not a political party in the ordinary sense, but a harmful and evil cult possessed by an evil specter. As it nears death, this evil cult is accelerating the pace of its corruption and degeneration. 

The collapse of the communist bloc headed by the Soviet Union in the early 1990s marked the failure of communism after almost a century. However, the CCP unexpectedly survived and still controls China, a nation with one-fifth of the world’s population. An unavoidable question arises: Is the CCP today still truly communist?

No one in today’s China, including Party members, believes in communism. After 50 years of socialism, the CCP has now adopted private ownership and even has a stock market. It seeks foreign investment to establish new ventures, while exploiting workers and peasants as much as it can. This completely opposes the ideals of communism.

Editor's Note: Since Xi has taken power and is clearly a great lover of Maoist economics, and since he's as brutal as Mao, and is totally feared, they all "believe" in communism now.  But Xi, just like Mao understood, the CCP has to love western capitalism otherwise their economic system will totally collapse.  Communist China cannot create it's own internal market  generating the cash they need, so they need western capitalism to exist.  RK

Despite compromising with capitalism, the CCP maintains autocratic control of the people of China. The Constitution, as revised in 2004, still rigidly states, “Chinese people of various ethnicities will continue adhering to the people’s democratic dictatorship and socialist path under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong’s ideology, Deng Xiaoping’s theory, and the important thought of the Three Represents.”  “The leopard has died, but its skin is still left.”  Today’s CCP only has “its skin” left. The CCP inherited this skin and uses it to maintain its rule over China......

 

Commentary 9: On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party - May, 13, 2012 By Epoch Times Staff

 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is unwilling to leave the historical stage in accordance with the current of history. Instead, it is using the ruthless methods developed during decades of political campaigns to renew its crazed struggle for legitimacy and to revive its dead mandate.

The CCP’s policies of reform and opening up disguise a desperate intention to maintain its group interest and totalitarian rule. Despite tight restrictions, the economic achievements earned by the hard work of the Chinese people in the past 20 years did not persuade the CCP to put down its butcher knife.

Instead, the CCP stole these achievements and used them to validate its rule, making its consistently unprincipled behavior more deceptive and misleading.

What is most alarming is that the CCP is going all out to destroy the moral foundation of the entire nation, attempting to turn every Chinese citizen, to various degrees, into a schemer in order to create an environment favorable for the CCP to “advance over time.”

In this historical moment today, it is especially important for us to understand clearly why the CCP acts like a band of scoundrels and to expose its villainous nature, so that the Chinese nation can achieve lasting stability and peace, enter an era free of the CCP as soon as possible, and construct a future of renewed national splendor.  The unscrupulous nature of the CCP has never changed. .......