2019-07-14 China-Japan-Koreas
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Xi Jinping In Translation: China's Guiding Ideology
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Click through to read this for an in-depth look at what Xi really believes and what he wants. It's dry.
[PalladiumMag] One of the most striking aspects of this speech is the language Xi Jinping invokes: party members must have "faith" (xìnyǎng) in the eventual victory of socialism; proper communists must be "devout" (qiánchéng) in their work; and Party members must be prepared to "sacrifice" (xīshēng) everything, up to their own blood, for revolutionary "ideals that reach higher than heaven" (gémìng lǐxiǎng gāo yú tiān).
Behind this religiously charged language is a man deeply worried that the cadres of his generation are not prepared to make the sort of sacrifices their parents and grandparents did for China’s revolutionary cause. Xi’s verdict is that such people do not have enough faith in the "eventual demise of capitalism and the ultimate victory of socialism." Their "views lack a firm grounding in historical materialism," leading them to doubt that "socialism is bound to win." This has practical consequences. The cadre without communist convictions will act "hedonistically" and "self-interestedly." Worst of all, he might begin to believe "false arguments that we should abandon socialism" altogether.
For Xi, this would be a grave betrayal of the Party’s heritage. The Communist Party of China is tasked with "building a socialism that is superior to capitalism" whose economic and technological prowess will give it "the dominant position" in world affairs. And though Xi asserts that this is inevitable, "the road will be tortuous." Party members must fiercely fend off ideological attacks on socialism with Chinese characteristics. The most pressing ideological problems identified in this speech are two ’false arguments:’ First, that the mass death, cruelty, and poverty of Maoist China undermines the credibility of the Party leadership today, and second, that socialism with Chinese characteristics is not really socialism at all.
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