China is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, which is grounded in the ideology of Karl Marx. The ideology of Marx is reflected in his 1848 document titled Communist Manifesto. Communist Manifesto for the first time gave the political concept of an inevitable transformation under the social evolutionary motion, called by him “dialectical process” whereunder two antagonistic social classes of workers and capitalists clash with each other (contradiction of ‘Thesis and ‘Anti-thesis’) and bring a change of capitalist social system into socialist system of working class’ common ownership of means of production by way of ‘Synthesis’. He held that this dialectical process was universally operating in Nature, including human society and that under this process the most developed capitalist countries would be transformed first into socialist countries. It was a political ideology based on a philosophy.
But it never happened the way it was predicted by Marx.
The first distortion of this ideology was made by none other than Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin of Russia. Russia of 1917 was an agriculture based monarchy – with rudimentary traces of emerging capitalism – and there was no scope under Marx philosophy for transformation of agrarian Russia into a socialist economic system. But these duo – Lenin and Stalin – with the cooperation of other dedicated revolutionaries staged a neat coup d’etat in Russia in October 1917 and established the dictatorship of communist party of Russia.
They distorted Marxist philosophy by fabricating spurious ideas, like Russia was quickly transformed from agricultural economy to capitalist economy in February 1917 when Czar was deposed and replaced by capitalist society with a parliament headed by Kerensky; this capitalist economy was next transformed in October 1917 into socialist economy; Communist party was vanguard of working class (proletariat); dictatorship of communist party was the dictatorship of working class; there is need for world-wide ‘permanent revolution’ to end the possibility of a ‘capitalism come back’ again (Trotsky) or even one socialist country can be powerful enough to export revolutions world-wide etc. (Stalin). (As if – under the Marxian scheme of social evolution – capitalists would, likewise, need to maintain an army to stop a “come back of fedual monarchy” toppling their capitalism ! What an absurd proposition in Marxian philosophy – for the one who knows even A, B, Cs of this philosophy !!).
The fact is that the October 1917 Russian revolution was a coup d’etat; that in Soviet Union it was a dictatorship of Communist Party and not of workers; that it was a dictatorship of one person – of Stalin – in Soviet Union and not of the Communist Party; that Soviet Union invaded many countries, toppled regimes and established communist governments there.
China’s Mao Tse Tung further distorted the socialist concepts as conceived by Marx. Like Stalin, Mao established his dictatorship in Chinese Communist Party. He ruthlessly crushed all opposition to his party by Chinese people – farmers, laborers, intellectuals and liberals.
During his old age, the ‘Gang of Four’ – including his wife – committed genocide of Chinese people, for which crime this gang after the death of Mao was called to answer by the clique of Chinese communist leaders who inherited and shared the power of Communist party. Over the period, the successive generations of those communist leaders established themselves in the ruling communist party as ‘prince-lings’ with an iron-control of Chinese people.
With the change of times and circumstances, this new generation of ruling communist leaders have changed their tactics but not their goal, that is, to establish world-wide their model of communism and under their control.
While in Czarist Russia the capitalism was present in rudimentary form, in China at the time of Mao’s struggle to capture power (1930’s), even that form of rudimentary capitalism was absent. It was an agrarian society of landlords and peasants. According to Marxian philosophy there was no possibility in China of a transformation of capitalism into socialism under the “dialectical” logic.
But Marxism or no Marxism, Mao organized exploited peasants under his banner of communism, launched a ferocious struggle to topple a nationalist government of Chang Kai Sek and got victory over it in 1949. It was no Marxist or communist revolution but the victory of a band of revolutionaries led by Mao and in the name of communism.
Mao after getting power tried his level best to transform China’s agricultural society into a capitalist economy and miserably failed to achieve that goal. In his misconceived ideas of Marxian evolutionary philosophy, Mao committed a horrible genocide of Chinese people and turned his country into a pauper nation but with a fanatic army of rag tag soldiers. To further distort what Marxian philosophy is, Mao added a new ideological phrase to “Marxism Leninism”: “Mao Tse Tung Thought” !
In 1978 under Deng Xiaoping’s “Four Cardinal Principles or Constructs” China brought back capitalism from the backdoor under another spurious slogan of ‘pragmatism’, which idea has no place in the philosophy of Marx. It was a great deceiving of Marxism by China as Deng Xiaoping cunningly insisted that Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong were valid in their thoughts and that by his theoretical “Four Constructs” he was not violating Marxist ideology but was merely making it pragmatic to survive and compete in the outside world! By his deceitful new “Constructs” he opened the door of China for capitalism but retained the dictatorship of one party – Chinese communist party.
In summing up, Deng Xiaoping turned China into a country following the path of capitalism but controlled by the dictatorship of the clique of a few leaders, and the name – under the banner – of communism. Deng Xiaoping’s theory was a cunning move by China to legitimise a dictatorship, while still reaping the innovative advantages of capitalist economic system. China – or the Chinese Communist Party – has nothing to do with communism, as advocated by its propounder – Karl Marx.
Modern China is purely nationalist in character, dictatorship of a few leaders having roots in political inheritance and a country with an imperialist ambition – no less an ambition than of the Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
The first requirement for these Chinese communist leaders trying to establish their model of governance world-wide and under their control is to destabilize the present international order secured by the world’s present powers like the United States, Russia, countries of European Union and Asian big ones, like India, Japan, and Australia.
This work brings China into direct conflict with these powers, which China cannot afford to challenge as of now. But China is fully aware that it would need to challenge them one day to achieve its aim.
China has learnt from history, like the episode of Adolph Hitler who had committed a mistake in confronting the then established powers and was ruined.
China has invented a new tactics: Work silently but steadily to change the geopolitical situation to its advantage before courting a direct conflict with these powers.
Which are the international forces that it has to take into its account in its calculation? The present world may be dominated by one or two forces but its equilibrium is maintained by a balance of many world powers. USA and Russia are the two powers presently dominating the world and the other world powers balancing the international equilibrium are the Islamic conglomeration, Asian Buddhist countries and aspiring giant India and Christian dominated European Union, Australia, Canada.
China has no way to deal with them all in a hostile way.
China has invented a new way. It is via economic route that China plans to conquer and defeat these power to establish its worldwide dominance.
The center of this plan is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). CCP controls the Chinese military – PLA – as well as its industrial establishments (Chinese companies). CCP helps these companies to turn them into multi-nationals, invest under the WTO global regime in foreign countries. Under the surreptitious control of CCP, these companies dominate the foreign lands’ economy. CCP uses these companies to steal their secrets & technology for the use of its PLA and to undermines and compromise regimes in those foreign lands (for example, CCP donated money to Congress ruling party in India to become lenient to its moves in that country). CCP through its government makes false claims over foreign territories and uses its PLA to grabs lands.
This is nothing but silently changing geopolitics to its advantage and preparing for eventual direct conflict with the established powers. It is preparing for World War 3.
The first requirement for the world for stopping China in its dangerous steps is to know the reality that China is preparing itself for the Third World War, which war may turn our Earth into an inhabitable place for the entire humanity. The world must wake-up to this danger before it is too late.