Posted on 07/13/2021 3:37:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Communist Party of China runs a theocracy. Founded 100 years ago, it has followed a trajectory away from Western Marxism toward the religious precepts of China two-and-a-half millennia ago. Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, the Chinese Communist Party has robustly revived the Chinese Imperial structure, which was first institutionalized in 221 BCE, whereby Chinese life experiences were directed by the authorities towards discipline and order.
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Emperor Xi
In December 2019, the Chinese Communist Party Poliburo elevated Xi Jinping with a new title renmin lingxiu or “People’s Leader,” providing him personally with a status akin to that of the Emperor under the dynasties.
Accordingly, the Chinese people are obligated to learn “Xi Jinping thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a new era.” Such thought includes the “China Dream”, the “four confidences”, the four-pronged comprehensive strategy”, and the “five-sphere integrated plan”. Andrew Nathan has recently noted the Party’s presentation of Xi as the “all-knowing, benevolent, serenely smiling sage who guides China unerringly 6oward inevitable historic greatness.”
The Chinese neo-imperial order is, in modern terms, a discourse regime with its core legitimating narrative composed by Mozi in the late Bronze Age. This discourse could be described as a story explaining natural law – a realization that “what is” must be so. The story tells us that our role in the “what is” is to accept and not to challenge; to accommodate ourselves to the happenings which flow around us.
The Party’s diktat now disciplines religions and education, the formative structures by which the Chinese people learn to use words and, therefore, to think and assess reality. In order to control the very foundations of thought and being, no other comprehensive understanding of humanity’s place in the universe can be tolerated.
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It seems that the democRATs think this is a superior system. It may be, but only for them.
The Communist Party of China runs a theocracy. Founded 100 years ago, it has followed a trajectory away from Western Marxism toward the religious precepts of China two-and-a-half millennia ago …No it doesn’t, and no it has not gone away from so-called “Western Marxism” at all. If the Jade Emperor is suddenly countenanced as their god publicly, then that would be considered theocratic. If they stop persecuting religions, then that would be a move away from so-called “Western Marxism”. Not to mention, it is not unusual to elevate the dictator in a “Western Marxist” state to a status like a god-king, which was done with Lenin and Stalin.
Odd too that the author did not mention Mao who seems to have served as a ‘role model’ for Xi. However, the author lost all credibility when he spelled “toward” “6oward” - indicating it was written in a hurry and not proof read.
Mao was also at that god-king level. It’s not just for North Korea’s Kim dynasty . . .
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