Document #9: Seven deadly sins of a communist plutocracy

[Wehrwolfen]

by Erika Johnsen
August 21, 2013


I wrote over the weekend about new Chinese President Xi Jinping’s letting loose with his hitherto understated enthusiasm for reviving Maoist principals and initiating an ideological purge of his communist party — instead of, you know, installing a more transparent regime and a more equitable society and whatever else he may have insincerely mentioned in the run-up to his leadership.

The Chinese government is all about walking the line between making a show of dealing with their rampant corruption and abuse of their cozy plutocracy whilst maintaining that there’s nothing inherently bad about their system itself. Indeed, not only is their system not a bad one, it’s the most glorious and morally righteous governing system with which mankind has ever been gifted — and maintaining a lie of that caliber means squashing out any pesky notions of democratic indulgence among the masses. The NYT reports:

Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society

These seven perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9, that bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping, China’s new top leader. The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,” and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.​

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Of course people in Obama's administration will agree with Mr. Xi Jinping. Perhaps even Obama himself might agree.

 

[Montecresto]

Yes, I saw that article too. China and Russia both are tired of US imperialism. But dude, you just keep inviting the criticism of the rah rah America crowd!!

 

[StillBallin75]

Making half-assed claims without evidence once again i see. Nevermind that all the Presidents both Democrat and Republican since Nixon have been more than accommodating to the human-rights-violating Communist plutocracy.

 

[Montecresto]

Making half-assed claims without evidence once again i see. Nevermind that all the Presidents both Democrat and Republican since Nixon have been more than accommodating to the human-rights-violating Communist plutocracy.

Are you serious?

 

[Northern Light]

China is a prosperous place. Yes it's communist, but a minority are suffering human rights violations while over a billion others are enjoying prosperity. That's why there has been no revolution since Mao. People are ok with the status quo. And after being in China on 4 separate occasions, I can say they are a lot more free than we are. As long as you don't rock the boat you can do things there that would land you in jail in America. Day to day living has a lot less big brother there, and common liberty is higher.

The demagogues will continue to propagandize Americans into hating China, but it's only because Russia and China are immune to American control. Our government hates their guts. They hate that their economic system has more growth than ours and we are like pigs at their trough, and they hate that these countries and their peoples don't drink the American manifest destiny koolaid. They also resent that lack of human rights is turning China into an economic hegemon, which is something that defies decades of our attempts to forcefully democratize more than half the world. China is pretty much using us and disposing of us, taking all our innovations, technologies, and expertise, integrating them, and then tossing the help. Our government hates them because that's exactly what it does and now we're having it done to us.

As I've already said elsewhere, Americans are too hung up on form instead of function. They hate communism for communism's sake, while failing to acknowledge that the specific form of government is irrelevant to a culture's common trust. China has lived through more changes in government than any other nation on this planet, and their culture remains strong. That's because Chinese culture is extremely practical. If there is prosperity then they don't care who rules them. As soon as prosperity wanes there is revolt. In America it's ideology over prosperity. You elect people because they tell you nice stories about fantasy worlds that are never going to happen, instead of just looking at the bare facts of prosperity.

China just needed time to get over the past 100 years of humiliation. Now they're here to stay. We can criticize their governance all we like but for now it's providing for its people and showing up the western world.

 

[Wiseone]

This is a simple conspiracy theory, the phrase "Secret document #9" sounds like something out of a bad 50's sifi movie. Of course like any good lie its peppered with enough truth to seem plausible, however its fairly obvious that a single-party state would see things like western style democracy and constitutionalism and a threat to its existance should those ideas take root in their society.

However none of that supports the notion that the new Chinese President is going to go back to the way things were during Mao's day.