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Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party—Introduction

Commentary 1: On What the Communist Party Is

Commentary 2: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party

Commentary 3: On the Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party

Commentary 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe

Commentary 5: On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong

Commentary 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture

Commentary 7: On the Chinese Communist Party’s History of Killing

Commentary 8: On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult

Commentary 9: On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party

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<em>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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPghxhe7OE&list=PLED64004A96BE76FA">NTD Television</a>. For the other Commentaries, please see the <a title="Nine Commentaries Table of Contents and Introduction" href="https://www.ntd.com/nine-commentaries-on-the-communist-party-introduction_482459.html">Table of Contents</a>.</em>
<h2>Foreword</h2>
Chinese people value greatly the Tao, or the Way. In ancient times, a brutal emperor would be called "a decadent ruler who lacks the Tao." Any behavior not conforming to the standard of morality, which in Chinese is denoted by the two characters <em>Dao De</em>, meaning Tao and virtue respectively, was said "not to follow the principle of Tao."
<h2>By respecting heaven and the earth, humankind enjoys a harmonious life.</h2>
Even farmers in revolt put out banners proclaiming "achieve the Way on behalf of heaven." Lao Zi[1] said, "There is something mysterious and whole, which existed before heaven and earth, silent, formless, complete, and never changing. Living eternally everywhere in perfection, it is the mother of all things. I do not know its name; I call it the Way." This suggests that the world is formed from Tao.

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.

"Man follows the earth, the earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows what is natural."[2] In ancient China, people believed in complying with, harmonizing, and co-existing with heaven. Humankind integrates with heaven and earth and exists in mutual dependence with them.

The Tao of the universe does not change, and the universe runs according to the Tao in an orderly manner. The earth follows the changes of heaven and therefore has four distinct seasons.

By respecting heaven and the earth, humankind enjoys a harmonious life of gratitude and blessings. This is reflected in the expression "heaven's favorable timing, earth's advantageous terrain, and harmony among the people.[3]" According to Chinese thought, astronomy, geography, the calendar system, medicine, literature, and even social structures all follow this understanding.

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.
<h2>I. Struggling with People and Exterminating Human Nature</h2>
<h2>Confounding Good and Evil and Eliminating Humanity</h2>
A human being is first a natural being and then a social being. "Men at their birth are naturally good"[4] and "The heart of compassion is possessed by all people alike"[5] are among the many guidelines that human beings bring with them at birth, guidelines that enable them to distinguish right from wrong and good from evil. However, for the CCP, human beings are animals or even machines. According to the CCP, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are just material forces.

The CCP's purpose is to control people and gradually change them into rebellious, revolutionary ruffians. Marx said, "Material forces can only be overthrown by material force"; "Theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses."[6]

He believed that the entire human history is nothing but the continuous evolution of human nature, and that human nature is in fact class nature. He posited that there is nothing inherent and inborn—everything is produced by its environment. Marx argued that a human being is a social man, disagreeing with the natural man concept postulated by Feuerbach.

Lenin believed that Marxism cannot be generated naturally among the proletariat, but must be infused from the outside. Lenin tried his best but still could not cause workers to shift from the economic struggle to the political battle for power. So he pinned his hopes on the Conditioned Reflex Theory put forth by Nobel Prize winner Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Lenin said this theory "has significant meaning for the proletariat all around the world."

Trotsky[7] even vainly hoped that conditioned reflex would not only psychologically change a person, but also physically change the person. In the same way that a dog drools once it hears the lunch bell ringing, soldiers would be expected to rush ahead bravely upon hearing gunshots, thus devoting their lives to the Communist Party.

Since ancient times, people believed that effort and labor leads to reward. Through hard work, one was thought to gain a prosperous life. People had contempt for indolence and considered reaping benefits without laboring as immoral.

After the Communist Party spread to China like a plague, however, it encouraged social scum and idlers to divide land, rob private property, and tyrannize men and women—all were done publicly under the color of law.

Everyone knows that it is good to respect one's elders and care for the young, and bad to disregard elders and teachers.

Intellectuals were classified as the stinky ninth category.

The ancient Confucian education had two parts: "Xiao Xue" (Small Learning) and "Da Xue" (Great Learning). Xiao Xue education, received by children below 15, mainly focused on manners regarding cleanliness, social interactions, and etiquette (education on hygiene, social behavior, speech, and so on).

Da Xue education emphasized virtue and acquiring the Tao.[8] During the CCP's campaigns to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and to denounce respect for teachers, the Party erased all moral standards from the minds of the younger generation.

An ancient saying goes, "One day as my teacher, and I should respect him as my father for my entire life."

On Aug. 5, 1966, Bian Zhongyun, a teacher of the Affiliated Girls High School of Beijing Normal University, was paraded by her female students on the street, wearing a tall dunce hat and clothes stained with black ink, carrying an insulting black board over her neck, in the midst of the students' drumming on dustbins.

She was forced to her knees on the ground, beaten with a wooden stick spiked with nails, and burned with boiling water. She was tortured to death.

The female principal of the Affiliated High School of Peking University was forced by students to knock on a broken washbasin and yell, "I am a bad element." Her hair was cut messily to humiliate her. Her head was beaten until it gushed blood as she was forced down to crawl on the ground.

Everyone thinks to be clean is good and to be dirty is bad. But the CCP promotes "getting mud all over the body and covering your hands with calluses" and praises as good that your "hands are dirty and feet smeared with cow-dung."[9] People like this were considered to be the most revolutionary and could attend universities, join the Party, be promoted, and eventually become Party leaders.

Humankind has progressed because of the accumulation of knowledge, but, under the CCP, gaining knowledge was considered bad. Intellectuals were classified as the stinky ninth category—worst on a scale of one to nine. Intellectuals were told to learn from illiterates, and to be re-educated by poor peasants in order to be reformed and start new lives.

In the re-education of intellectuals, professors from Tsinghua University were banished to Carp Island in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. Schistosomiasis[10] was a common disease in this area, and even a labor camp originally located there had to move. Upon touching the river water, these professors were immediately infected and developed cirrhosis, thus losing their ability to work and live.

Under former Chinese Premier Minister Zhou Enlai's instigation, the Cambodian Communist Party (Khmer Rouge) carried out the cruelest persecution of intellectuals. Those who had independent thoughts were subjected to reform and extermination, both spiritually and physically.

From 1975 to 1978, one-quarter of the Cambodian population was killed; some met their death simply on account of the marks left on their faces from wearing glasses.

People with conscience are forced into silence for fear of violence.

After the Cambodian communists' victory in 1975, Pol Pot prematurely started to establish socialism—"a heaven in human society" that has no class differences, no urban and rural divides, no currency or commercial trade.

In the end, families were torn apart and replaced with male labor teams and female labor teams. They were all forced to work and eat together, and wear the same black revolutionary or military uniform. Husbands and wives could only meet each other once a week with approval.

[1] Lao Zi (also known as Lao Tzu, Li Er, or Li Dan), Chinese philosopher, lived in the 6th century B.C. He is credited as the author of "Tao-Te Ching" ("Dao De Jing"), the seminal book for Taoism.

[3] These expressions come from "Mencius," Book 2.

[4] "Rhymes of Three" ("San Zi Jing"), a traditional Chinese text for elementary education.

[6] Karl Marx, "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right.'"

[7] Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian communist theorist, historian, and military leader, founder of the Russian Red Army. He was murdered in Mexico City by agents of Stalin on August 22, 1940.

[8] According to Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130–1200), also known as Zhu-zi or Chu-tzu, a neo-Confucian scholar from the Song Dynasty, "Small Learning" deals with proper behavior, while "Great Learning" expounds on the underlying principles behind those behaviors. Source: "Classified Conversations of Master Zhu" ("Zhu Zi Yu Lei"), Volume 7 (Learning 1).

[9] From Mao's "Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art" (1942).

[10] Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic worms. Infection occurs upon contact with contaminated fresh water. Common symptoms include fever, chills, cough, and muscle aches. In more serious cases, the disease can cause liver, intestine, lung, and bladder damage, and, in rare cases, seizures, paralysis, or spinal cord inflammation.

The Communist Party claims to fear nothing in heaven or earth, but has attempted with arrogance to reform heaven and earth. This is a complete disregard for all the righteous elements and forces in the universe. Mao Zedong wrote while a student in Hunan,

"In all centuries, nations have conducted great revolutions. The old is washed away and things are imbued with the new; great changes have occurred, involving life and death, success and ruin.

"It is the same with the destruction of the universe. This destruction is definitely not the final destruction, and there is no doubt that destruction here will be birth over there.

"We all anticipate such destruction, because in destroying the old universe we bring about the new universe. Isn't that better than the old universe!"[11]

Affection is a natural human emotion. Affection among husbands and wives, children, parents, friends, and in society generally is normal. Through incessant political campaigns, the CCP has changed humans to wolves, or even an animal that is fiercer and crueler than the wolf.

Even the fiercest tigers would not eat their young. But under the rule of the CCP, it has been common for parents and children to report on each other, or husbands and wives to expose each other; familial relations were frequently renounced.

In the mid-1960s, a female teacher in an elementary school in Beijing accidentally put "socialism" and "fall down" together when she drilled her students in Chinese characters. Students reported her. After that, she was criticized everyday, and slapped by male students.

Her daughter severed their relationship. Whenever the revolutionary struggle in her school became more intense, her daughter would criticize her mother's "new movement in class struggles" during political sessions. For several years following the mishap, the teacher's only work was the daily cleaning of the school, including its toilets.

People who went through the Cultural Revolution will never forget Zhang Zhixin, who was sent to jail because she criticized Mao for his failure in the Great Leap Forward. Many times, prison guards stripped off her clothes, handcuffed her hands behind her back and threw her into male prison cells, letting male prisoners gang rape her. She became insane in the end.

When she was being executed, prison guards feared she would shout slogans in protest. They pressed her head on a brick and sliced a hole in her trachea without any anesthesia, assuring that she could breathe but not speak.

In the persecution of Falun Gong in recent years, the CCP continues to use the same old methods of inciting hate and instigating violence.

The Communist Party suppresses human beings' virtuous nature, and promotes, encourages, and uses the evil side of humanity to strengthen its rule. In one campaign after another, people with conscience are forced into silence for fear of violence.

The Communist Party has systematically destroyed universal moral standards in an attempt to completely demolish the concepts of good and evil and of honor and shame that have been maintained by humankind for thousands of years.
<h2>The Evil that Transcends the Law of Mutual Generation and Mutual Inhibition</h2>
Lao Zi said,

<em>Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.</em>

<em>All can know good as good only because there is evil.</em>

<em>Therefore having and not having arise together.</em>

<em>Difficult and easy complement each other.</em>

<em>Long and short contrast each other;</em>

<em>High and low rest upon each other;</em>

<em>Voice and sound harmonize each other;</em>

<em>Front and back follow one another.</em>[12]

Simply put, the law of mutual generation and mutual inhibition exists in the human world. Not only are humans divided into good and bad individuals, but good and evil also coexist within a single person.

Dao Zhi, an icon of bandits in ancient China, told his followers, "Bandits should follow the Way as well." He went on and elaborated that in being a bandit one should also be "honorable, courageous, righteous, wise, and benevolent." That is to say, even a bandit cannot do whatever pleases him, but has to follow certain rules.

The history of the CCP can be said to be full of trickery and betrayal without constraint.

The history of the CCP can be said to be full of trickery and betrayal without constraint. For example, what bandits honor the most is "righteousness." Even their place to share the booty is called "the hall of righteousness for dividing the spoils." But whenever a crisis arises among comrades within the CCP, they expose and accuse one another, and even fabricate false charges to frame one another, adding insult to injury.

Take General Peng Dehuai for example. Mao Zedong, coming from a peasant background, of course knew that it was impossible to produce 130,000 <em>jin</em> of grain per <em>mu</em>[13] and that what Peng said was all true[14]. He also knew that Peng had no intention of taking his power, let alone the fact that Peng has saved his life several times when Peng fought Hu Zongnan's 200,000 troops with only 20,000 troops of his own during the CCP-KMT war.

Nevertheless, as soon as Peng expressed his disagreement with Mao, Mao immediately burst into a rage and threw into a garbage can the poem he wrote in praise of Peng—"Who dares to ride ahead on horseback with sword drawn—only our General Peng!" Mao was determined to put Peng to death, despite the nobility of Peng's life-saving comradeship.

The CCP kills brutally rather than governs with benevolence; it persecutes its own members in contempt of comradeship and personal loyalty; it barters away China's territory, acting cowardly; it makes itself an enemy of righteous belief, lacking wisdom; it launches mass movements, violating the sage's way to govern the nation.

All in all, the CCP has gone so far as to abandon the minimal moral standard that "even bandits should follow the Way as well." Its evilness has reached well beyond the law of mutual generation and mutual inhibition in the universe. The CCP completely opposes nature and humanity for the purpose of confounding the criteria for good and evil and overturning the law of the universe. Its unrestrained arrogance has reached its zenith, and it is doomed to come to collapse completely.
<h2>II. Fighting With the Earth, Bringing Endless Disaster</h2>
<h2>Extending Class Struggle to Nature</h2>
Jin Xunhua was a 1968 high school graduate from the Wusong No. 2 Middle School of Shanghai and a member of the Standing Committee of the Middle School Red Guards in Shanghai. He was sent to the countryside of Heilongjiang Province in March 1969.

On Aug. 15, 1969, fierce floods rushed down from a mountain range and soon inundated the areas surrounding the Shuang River. Jin jumped into the swift currents in order to retrieve two drifting electric wire poles for his production team and drowned.

The following are two of Jin's diary entries before he died.

<em>July 4. I am beginning to feel the severity and intensity of the class struggle in the countryside. As a red guard of Chairman Mao, I stand fully prepared to fight head on against the reactionary forces with the invincible Mao Zedong Thought as my weapon. I'm willing to do that even if it means I have to sacrifice my life. I will fight, fight, and fight to the best of my ability to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat. </em>

<em>July 19. The class enemies in that production brigade are still arrogant. Educated youth came to the countryside precisely to participate in the three major revolutionary movements in the countryside: first and foremost, the class struggle. We should rely on the class of the poor- and lower-middle peasants, mobilize the masses, and suppress the arrogance of the enemies. We educated youth should always uphold the great banners of Mao Zedong Thought, never forget the class struggle, and never forget the dictatorship of the proletariat.</em>

Jin went to the countryside with the thought of fighting heaven and earth and reforming humanity. His diaries reveal that his mind was full of fighting. He extended the idea of struggling with humans to fighting with heaven and earth, and eventually lost his life for it. Jin is a typical case of the philosophy of struggle and, at the same time, undoubtedly became its victim.

Engels once said that freedom is the recognition of inevitability. Mao Zedong added "and the reformation of the world." This final touch fully brought to light the CCP's view of nature, namely, as something to be changed.

The "inevitability" as understood by the communists is the matter out of their eyesight and the pattern whose origin is beyond their exposition. They believe that nature and humanity can be conquered by mobilizing subjective human consciousness to understand objective laws. The communists have made a mess of both Russia and China, their two pilot fields, in their efforts to change nature.

The folk songs during the Great Leap Forward show the arrogance and stupidity of the CCP: "Let the mountains bow and let the rivers step aside"; "There's no Jade Emperor in the heaven, and there's no Dragon King on the earth. I am the Jade Emperor, and I am the Dragon King. I order the three mountains and five gorges to step aside—here I come!"[15]

The Communist Party has come! So with it comes the destruction of balance in nature and the originally harmonious world.

[11] From Chapter 3 of the book <em>Mao Zedong</em> published by Chinese Archive Publishing House. This book was originally published in English: D. Wilson, <em>The People's Emperor Mao: A Biography of Mao Tse-Tung</em> (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1980).

[13] <em>jin</em> is a Chinese unit for measuring weight. 1 <em>jin</em> = 0.5 kg; <em>mu</em> is a Chinese unit for measuring land area. 1 <em>mu</em> = 0.165 acres.

[14] General Peng Dehuai criticized Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward movement, which is widely seen both within China and outside as a major economic disaster. As a consequence, he was removed from all posts and placed under constant supervision and house arrest. His humiliation and disgrace at the hands of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution continued until he died due to a liver disorder in 1974.

[15] Both the Jade Emperor and Dragon King are Chinese mythological figures. The Jade Emperor, known formally as the August Personage of Jade and called informally by children and commoners as Grandpa Heaven, is the ruler of heaven and among the most important gods of the Chinese daoist pantheon. Dragon Kings are the divine rulers of the four seas. Each sea, corresponding to one of the cardinal directions, is ruled by one Dragon King. The dragon kings live in crystal palaces, guarded by shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Besides ruling over the aquatic life, the Dragon Kings also manipulate clouds and rain. The Dragon King of the Eastern Sea is said to have the largest territory.

<h2>Disrupting Nature Causes the CCP to Reap What It Has Sown</h2>
Under its agricultural policy of keeping grain as a key link, the CCP at will converted to farmland large areas of mountain slopes and grasslands that were unsuitable for farming, and filled rivers and lakes in China to make cropland. What was the result?

The CCP claimed that the grain production in 1952 exceeded that of the nationalist period, but what the CCP did not reveal was that not until 1972 did the total grain production in China exceed that of the peaceful Qianlong reign (1735–1796) of the Qing Dynasty.

Even up to this day, China's per capita grain production is still far below that of the Qing Dynasty, and is a mere one-third of that of the Song dynasty, when agriculture was at its peak in Chinese history.

Indiscriminate cutting of trees, leveling of rivers, and filling of lakes have resulted in drastic ecological deterioration in China. Today, China's ecosystem is on the brink of collapse.

The drying-up of the Hai River and the Yellow River and the pollution of the Huai River and the Yangtze River sever the lifelines on which the Chinese nation has depended for its survival. With the disappearance of grasslands in Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang, sandstorms have made their way into the central plains.

In the 1950s, under the guidance of Soviet experts, the CCP built the Sanmenxia hydraulic power station on the Yellow River. To this day, this power station only gives a generating capacity at the level of a medium-sized river, despite the fact that the Yellow River is the second-largest river in China. To make matters worse, this project has caused an accumulation of mud and sand at the river's upper reaches and raised the height of the riverbed.

China's ecosystem is on the brink of collapse.

Because of this, even a moderate flood brings enormous losses in life and property to people on both sides of the riverbank. In the 2003 flood of the Wei River, the peak water flux was 3,700 cubic meters per second, a level that may occur every three to five years. Yet that flood caused a disaster unprecedented in the past 50 years.

There have been a multitude of large-scale reservoirs built in the locality of Zhumadian, in Henan Province. In 1975, the dams of these reservoirs collapsed one after another. Within a short duration of two hours, 60,000 people drowned. The total death toll reached as high as 200,000.

The CCP continues wanton acts of destruction on the land of China. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River and the South-to-North Water Transfer Project are all attempts by the CCP to change the natural ecosystem with investments amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, not to mention those small and medium-size projects to "fight with the earth."

It was once suggested within the CCP that an atomic bomb be used to blast open a passage on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to change the natural environment in western China. Although the CCP's arrogance and contempt for the land have shocked the world, these are not unexpected.

In the hexagrams ("Ba Gua") of "The Book of Changes," China's ancestors regarded heaven as "Qian" or the creative, and revered it as the heavenly Tao. They considered the earth as "Kun" or the receptive, and respected receptive virtues.

Kun, the hexagram following Qian<em>,</em> is explained in "The Book of Changes" as such: "Being in the hexagram of Kun<em>,</em> Earth's nature is to extend and respond. In correspondence with this, superior persons handle and sustain all things with bountiful virtues."

The Confucian commentary on "The Book of Changes" says, "Perfect is Kun's greatness; it brings birth to all beings."

Confucius further commented on the nature of Kun<em>:</em>

<em>"</em>Kun is the most soft, yet in motion it is firm. It is most still, yet in nature, square. Through following, she obtains her lord, yet still maintains her nature and thus endures. She contains all things, and is brilliant in transforming. This is the way of Kun—how docile it is, bearing heaven and moving with time.<em>"</em>

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Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party—Introduction

Commentary 1: On What the Communist Party Is

Commentary 2: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party

Commentary 3: On the Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party

Commentary 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe

Commentary 5: On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong

Commentary 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture

Commentary 7: On the Chinese Communist Party’s History of Killing

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