Communism is Dead, Long Live CCP

When the entire world is grappling with the pandemic originating from China, the ruling Communist Party in China (CCP) is busy celebrating its ‘glorious hundred years’. The military might is being displayed, commemorative coins are being issued, usual hyper-nationalist posturing is done, and all claimed regions and ethnicities, including Xinxiang and Hong Kong, are being decorated to celebrate this state-sponsored function. The communists from all over the world, including Bharat, have also been observing hundred years of the communist movement. Instead of Moscow, Beijing is their source of inspiration now. In reality, this self-congratulatory commemoration indicates nothing but a remembrance of the failed ideology and movement called Communism that has inflicted death and destruction wherever it existed.

Within few years of the so-called October Revolution, which itself needs detailed scrutiny, the people of Russia and worldwide realised that the promise of absolute equality is just an illusion. The dictatorship of a party and, ultimately, a leader has been the only reality of all Communist regimes. Using the prefix of ‘people’ is nothing but a licence to take away freedom from the people. Firstly, Nikita Khrushchev’s denouncing of the Stalinist regime and later, Glasnost and Perestroika adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev ensured the collapse of the Soviet Union and the idea of Communist International.

China, since its inception, proclaimed its own variant of Communism with the Chinese characteristics, symbolising the distrust and ego of any Communist leader. Till the 1980s, there was a cycle of typical communist party politics and resultant atrocities on people. Starting with the struggle against nationalists, the revolution, annexation of various parts, and the execution of millions of people in the name of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, there has been a series of mass killings up to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Eliminating all the dissenting voices is the only consistent policy of all Communist regimes. The untold atrocities in Tibet, Xinxiang and Hong Kong are just in continuation. The Communist Philosophy or policies could not ensure peace and prosperity for the common masses of China. Deng’s policy of economic liberalisation without political reforms brought prosperity. But nowhere Marx’s withering away of State has been visible. What is remaining at the cost of Communist ideology is the structure and dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party. Holding on to power under the garb of the Chinese model is the sole purpose of the ‘communist’ tag. Communism is dead; Long live CCP is the motto. The cult figure of Xi Jinping, who is busy imitating Mao, is nothing but an indication of the global threat this model can pose.

Xi Jinping’s China does not have the potential and intent of giving an alternative to global capitalism. Imperialism of Communist variety is in the offing. Debt traps, bullying tactics, manipulating international bodies and shameless defence of mishandling the entire Covid–19 crisis are just symptoms. Gaining legitimacy and power to the CCP structure at home and abroad is the sole objective of this model.

Unfortunately, like in Bharat, Communists worldwide are busy whitewashing the crimes and brutalities of this oppressive regime. The State capitalism that perpetuates more inequalities is being celebrated in the name of CCP. The prodigies of Marx and Mao are scuttling the civilisational linkages created with the message of Buddha. Ultimately, it will be the Chinese people who will show the place to the CCP, as they tried to do on earlier occasions. Not allowing the hydra of CCP to spread in Democracies like Bharat is our moral and intellectual responsibility.