What hypocrisy! Chinese Communists will never face up to their own lies. The early founders of Communism in China were allied to Lenin and, despite the later facade of breaking with Stalin, the Russian and Chinese Marxists always worked hand in hand for the global cause. Chinese Communists were happy to take western money and grants of “most favored nation status” initiated by Nixon, and carried on by Ford, even by Reagan, and Clinton et. al. How many cordial visits did US presidents and advisers (like Kissinger) have with Mao, Chou en-Lai, and Deng Xiaoping? More than one. Read $$$$$$ Many Red leaders received instruction in Russian communist universities. And it was not Das Kapital that the communists first distributed in the 1940s to undermine the students, it was the fantasies of an Englishman, Charles Darwin.
From The Chinese Revolution and Chinese Communism to 1949 (http://acienciala.faculty.ku.edu/): “Chinese Communists benefited greatly from the fact that Sun Yat-sen [First President of the Republic of China] obtained no support from the Western powers who were, after all, attached to their special privileges in China. (In fact, to begin with, he was seen as too close to the West and had to take a harder line anyway). It is not surprising, therefore, that he turned to Moscow. In January 1918, he congratulated Lenin on the successful Bolshevik revolution (November 1917).
“There was little reliable information about the Bolshevik revolution in China before 1920. We know that study groups were organized to study Marxist thought but it was not until spring 1920, that a Comintern agent, Grigorii Voytinskii, arrived in China with information and political writings. Many of these were translated into Chinese at this time. It was also Voytinskii who worked successfully to transform the existing Marxist study groups into communist groups and then into the Communist Party of China. Here we should note that Voytinskii was assisted in this organizational work by the Soviet government’s proclamation that it would give up the old Russian privileges in China. In particular, the Soviet government promised to return the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER, a branch of the Trans-Siberian railway) to China. Though this promise was not implemented, it made Chinese authorities more friendly to Moscow and allowed some travel between China and Soviet Russia.”
Radio Free Asia:
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has warned that any of its members who harbor religious beliefs or take part in religious activities could become the targets of its powerful disciplinary arm.
In an opinion article published at the weekend, the newsletter of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), said the problem of religious believers within party ranks is “attracting serious concern.”
“The fact that a small number of party members have forsaken the party’s world view of dialectical materialism and have turned to religion is now attracting serious concern, to the extent that it now falls within the purview of disciplinary work,” the article, published on Sunday, said.
“Marx himself stated baldly that communism, in essence, begins with atheism,” the China Discipline Inspection Report article said. Full report is here.
