Unicorn
16th July 2008, 15:02
Setting the tone for all the propaganda organs in China and claiming to act on behalf of the Communist Party of China, the Mao group orders "great proletarian cultural revolution”; similarly, acting in the name of the Communist Party of China and in pursuance of its ultra-Left, opportunist, sectarian policy it engages in Great-Power interference in and subversion against our Party and the Japanese democratic movement.
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However, we cannot agree that in its present shape the Mao group, which styles itself the "Communist Party of China”, is the Communist Party of China that led the great Chinese revolution to victory. This is nothing but a specious name given by the Mao group to a party which is not a party, which emerged as a result of the efforts of Mao’s immediate circle to disband the CPC and “re-create” it in the shape of a personal party exercising absolute domination; it is nothing but a false name for a personal “leading” group, which has nothing in common with the Communist Party of China, the heir to revolutionary traditions.
p
Even on the basis of available information on the situation in China it is obvious that the organisations of the Communist Party of China in the centre and in the localities are being destroyed by the Mao group and are, in fact, on the verge of liquidation; this was made clear by the 216concrete facts cited in the articles "Peking This Year" written by Junichi Konno and published in the newspaper Akahata since November 5, 1967, and in his "The Course of the
’Great Chinese Cultural Revolution’ Such As It Appeared in Seething Peking" published in the February and March issues of our magazine, and in Hiroshi Tatzuki’s article " Essence of the So-called ’Struggle for Power’ and ’Armed Struggle’ " published in the February issue of our magazine.
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We, therefore, should like to deal here not with the destruction of the Party by the Mao group but with only some indisputable indications of the fact that the Communist Party of China, which has a revolutionary tradition of more than forty years, is being undermined and liquidated by the Mao group.
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Firstly, the Mao group is undermining and seizing the CC CPC, which is the Party’s "highest leading organ" in the interim between congresses.
p
A provisipn of the Rules of the Communist Party of China states that in the interim between congresses, the Central Committee elected by the National Party Congress is the highest leading organ; the question of removing CC members or alternate members from the CC is decided at the National Party Congress; in the event of an emergency "this question may be decided at a plenary meeting of the CC by a majority of more than two-thirds of the votes”.
p
However, of the 172 members of the CC (excluding deceased) elected at the Eighth Congress, the number attacked by the Mao group during the "proletarian cultural revolution”, removed from office or forced to “confess” has, according to the latest information, already reached 107; the Mao group consists of only 15 persons; even if those who support them are added the total will only come to 48. Twothirds of the members and alternate members of the Political Bureau and all members and alternate members of the Secretariat, with the exception of one, have been criticised and attacked by the Mao group and more than half have been removed.
p
In contravention of the Party Rules and ignoring the legal Central Committee, the Mao group, which numerically does not comprise even one-third of the CC, attacks and removes from office leading- cadres of the CC comprising more than two-thirds of that body; this may be regarded as indisputable proof of the fact that the Mao 217group, which is a minority body, has abandoned innerParty democracy in favour of violence and completely liquidated the legal
CC, that had been formed by the common will of the Party.
p
Indeed, in August 1966 the Mao group convened the llth plenary meeting of the CC, which approved the "leadership of Mao Tse-tung" and adopted the "great proletarian cultural revolution" as its line. This was done in order to make it appear that the situation had been normalised. However, unilaterally convened by the Mao group in the above– described situation, when as distinct from the past not even the number of CC members present could be openly announced, in a situation in which the hungweipings were in attendance despite the fact that as members of a non-Party organisation they had no right to take part in the work of a plenary meeting, in a situation in which the hungweipings held political demonstrations and, according to reports, pressure was brought to bear by the section of the Chinese Army controlled by Lin Piao, this can by no means be considered a normal plenary meeting of the CC.
p
Evidently, one can say that the undermining by the Mao group of the CC CPC, which is the highest leading organ of the Party, and the usurping of its name without adhering to legal procedure in which the common will of the Party is concentrated are a major sign that the Communist Party of China is being demolished, a major indication that the Mao group is liquidating the CPC "from above" and turning it into its own party.
p
Secondly, in the course of the "struggle for power" waged by the so-called hungweipings and tsaofans, the Mao group attacks Party organs of all levels from without, forcibly undermines them and totally abolishes local Party organs elected at legal Party meetings.
p
This is graphically described in the article " Revolutionary Experience of the Struggle for Power by Red Tsaofans in Heilungkiang Province" published in the magazine Sekai Seizi Siryo No. 272, in which this experience is called "an outstanding example of the seizure of power”. "Before seizing the higher leading authority of the provincial Party committee”, the tsaofans, organised by the Mao group, "gained control of Left newspapers and radio stations functioning in the name of the proletarian revolution, seized the public security bureau, which is an organ of the dictatorship, 218and moulded public opinion for the final capture of the citadel of reaction (the provincial Party committee, which is a
nest of a handful of people in authority taking the capitalist road); thus, resolutely crushing the counter-revolution, they ensured a normal advance of the struggle for the seizure of power”.
p
Speaking of this “experience”, the article tells how with the “intervention” of Maoist-controlled troops stationed in this area, the tsaofans organised by the Mao group forcibly "requisitioned and took over control of" newspapers, radio stations and provincial and urban organs of public security, took into custody and imprisoned leaders whom the Mao group considered “counter-revolutionaries”; after disbanding the provincial Party committee, the tsaofans set up in its stead a "provisional organ of power”, which swore fidelity to the Mao group. Further, the article tells us that this is “revolution”, that this is "seizure of power”. However, this "seizure of power" is a “revolution” directed against the legal leading organs of the Party in a socialist country. Consequently, it is nothing but the forcible liquidation of the Party itself. The Communist Party of China no longer exists after this "seizure of power”. All that remain are the " provisional organs of power"—the "revolutionary committees" that serve as the vehicle of the absolute domination of the Mao group. (Even before the "struggle for power”, at the very outset of the "great proletarian cultural revolution”, the local organisations of the CPC ceased, in effect, to fulfil their functions; here we give only the most striking examples of the actions taken to liquidate the Party.)
p
Thirdly, according to its Rules the CPC is a proletarian Party, which "in its activities is guided by Marxism– Leninism" and regards "democratic centralism as its organisational principle”. But this guideline and the organisational principle are flouted by the Mao group.
p
The Mao group, which calls itself the "Party CC”, is guided not by Marxism-Leninism as prescribed by the CPC Rules, but by the "thought of Mao Tse-tung”, which is something quite different from Marxism-Leninism. This group, which deifies Mao Tse-tung, eliminates the majority of the CC who do not support the "thought of Mao Tsetung”, and undermines local Party organs, may call itself the "Central Committee of the CPC”, it may talk of " restoring the Party" and, in future, may create a "Party 219organisation”, but unquestionably this will be a personal party of Mao Tse-tung differing fundamentally from the Communist Party of China, whose activities are guided by Marxism-Leninism.
Consequently, nothing can hide the criminal acts of the Mao group, which is undermining and liquidating the Communist Party of China.
p
Further, the Mao group openly flouts the Party’s organisational principle as laid down in its Rules. In a proletarian Party, democratic centralism is, first and foremost, the organisational guarantee of the Party’s existence. The obliteration of this organisational principle signifies the undermining and liquidation of the Party. No matter how they implement their temporary “domination” and call themselves the "Central Committee" the Maoists stand exposed as the destroyers of the Party, for they have destroyed the principle by which the Party is organised.
p
An analysis of even the few extremely characteristic moments cited above makes it clear that the Mao group is undermining and liquidating the Communist Party of China and moving forward the "great proletarian cultural revolution" in order to replace the Communist Party of China with a personal party of Mao Tse-tung.
Further, we should like to examine the “theory” of liquidationism as expounded by the Mao group in connection with the unprecedented undermining of the Party, and also some salient features of this phenomenon.
Source: Krivtsov, V.I. 1970, "Maoism Through the Eyes of Communists". Progress Publishers
http://www.leninist.biz/en/1970/MTEC326/3.3.3-Liquidation.of.the.Communist.Party.of.China
p
However, we cannot agree that in its present shape the Mao group, which styles itself the "Communist Party of China”, is the Communist Party of China that led the great Chinese revolution to victory. This is nothing but a specious name given by the Mao group to a party which is not a party, which emerged as a result of the efforts of Mao’s immediate circle to disband the CPC and “re-create” it in the shape of a personal party exercising absolute domination; it is nothing but a false name for a personal “leading” group, which has nothing in common with the Communist Party of China, the heir to revolutionary traditions.
p
Even on the basis of available information on the situation in China it is obvious that the organisations of the Communist Party of China in the centre and in the localities are being destroyed by the Mao group and are, in fact, on the verge of liquidation; this was made clear by the 216concrete facts cited in the articles "Peking This Year" written by Junichi Konno and published in the newspaper Akahata since November 5, 1967, and in his "The Course of the
’Great Chinese Cultural Revolution’ Such As It Appeared in Seething Peking" published in the February and March issues of our magazine, and in Hiroshi Tatzuki’s article " Essence of the So-called ’Struggle for Power’ and ’Armed Struggle’ " published in the February issue of our magazine.
p
We, therefore, should like to deal here not with the destruction of the Party by the Mao group but with only some indisputable indications of the fact that the Communist Party of China, which has a revolutionary tradition of more than forty years, is being undermined and liquidated by the Mao group.
p
Firstly, the Mao group is undermining and seizing the CC CPC, which is the Party’s "highest leading organ" in the interim between congresses.
p
A provisipn of the Rules of the Communist Party of China states that in the interim between congresses, the Central Committee elected by the National Party Congress is the highest leading organ; the question of removing CC members or alternate members from the CC is decided at the National Party Congress; in the event of an emergency "this question may be decided at a plenary meeting of the CC by a majority of more than two-thirds of the votes”.
p
However, of the 172 members of the CC (excluding deceased) elected at the Eighth Congress, the number attacked by the Mao group during the "proletarian cultural revolution”, removed from office or forced to “confess” has, according to the latest information, already reached 107; the Mao group consists of only 15 persons; even if those who support them are added the total will only come to 48. Twothirds of the members and alternate members of the Political Bureau and all members and alternate members of the Secretariat, with the exception of one, have been criticised and attacked by the Mao group and more than half have been removed.
p
In contravention of the Party Rules and ignoring the legal Central Committee, the Mao group, which numerically does not comprise even one-third of the CC, attacks and removes from office leading- cadres of the CC comprising more than two-thirds of that body; this may be regarded as indisputable proof of the fact that the Mao 217group, which is a minority body, has abandoned innerParty democracy in favour of violence and completely liquidated the legal
CC, that had been formed by the common will of the Party.
p
Indeed, in August 1966 the Mao group convened the llth plenary meeting of the CC, which approved the "leadership of Mao Tse-tung" and adopted the "great proletarian cultural revolution" as its line. This was done in order to make it appear that the situation had been normalised. However, unilaterally convened by the Mao group in the above– described situation, when as distinct from the past not even the number of CC members present could be openly announced, in a situation in which the hungweipings were in attendance despite the fact that as members of a non-Party organisation they had no right to take part in the work of a plenary meeting, in a situation in which the hungweipings held political demonstrations and, according to reports, pressure was brought to bear by the section of the Chinese Army controlled by Lin Piao, this can by no means be considered a normal plenary meeting of the CC.
p
Evidently, one can say that the undermining by the Mao group of the CC CPC, which is the highest leading organ of the Party, and the usurping of its name without adhering to legal procedure in which the common will of the Party is concentrated are a major sign that the Communist Party of China is being demolished, a major indication that the Mao group is liquidating the CPC "from above" and turning it into its own party.
p
Secondly, in the course of the "struggle for power" waged by the so-called hungweipings and tsaofans, the Mao group attacks Party organs of all levels from without, forcibly undermines them and totally abolishes local Party organs elected at legal Party meetings.
p
This is graphically described in the article " Revolutionary Experience of the Struggle for Power by Red Tsaofans in Heilungkiang Province" published in the magazine Sekai Seizi Siryo No. 272, in which this experience is called "an outstanding example of the seizure of power”. "Before seizing the higher leading authority of the provincial Party committee”, the tsaofans, organised by the Mao group, "gained control of Left newspapers and radio stations functioning in the name of the proletarian revolution, seized the public security bureau, which is an organ of the dictatorship, 218and moulded public opinion for the final capture of the citadel of reaction (the provincial Party committee, which is a
nest of a handful of people in authority taking the capitalist road); thus, resolutely crushing the counter-revolution, they ensured a normal advance of the struggle for the seizure of power”.
p
Speaking of this “experience”, the article tells how with the “intervention” of Maoist-controlled troops stationed in this area, the tsaofans organised by the Mao group forcibly "requisitioned and took over control of" newspapers, radio stations and provincial and urban organs of public security, took into custody and imprisoned leaders whom the Mao group considered “counter-revolutionaries”; after disbanding the provincial Party committee, the tsaofans set up in its stead a "provisional organ of power”, which swore fidelity to the Mao group. Further, the article tells us that this is “revolution”, that this is "seizure of power”. However, this "seizure of power" is a “revolution” directed against the legal leading organs of the Party in a socialist country. Consequently, it is nothing but the forcible liquidation of the Party itself. The Communist Party of China no longer exists after this "seizure of power”. All that remain are the " provisional organs of power"—the "revolutionary committees" that serve as the vehicle of the absolute domination of the Mao group. (Even before the "struggle for power”, at the very outset of the "great proletarian cultural revolution”, the local organisations of the CPC ceased, in effect, to fulfil their functions; here we give only the most striking examples of the actions taken to liquidate the Party.)
p
Thirdly, according to its Rules the CPC is a proletarian Party, which "in its activities is guided by Marxism– Leninism" and regards "democratic centralism as its organisational principle”. But this guideline and the organisational principle are flouted by the Mao group.
p
The Mao group, which calls itself the "Party CC”, is guided not by Marxism-Leninism as prescribed by the CPC Rules, but by the "thought of Mao Tse-tung”, which is something quite different from Marxism-Leninism. This group, which deifies Mao Tse-tung, eliminates the majority of the CC who do not support the "thought of Mao Tsetung”, and undermines local Party organs, may call itself the "Central Committee of the CPC”, it may talk of " restoring the Party" and, in future, may create a "Party 219organisation”, but unquestionably this will be a personal party of Mao Tse-tung differing fundamentally from the Communist Party of China, whose activities are guided by Marxism-Leninism.
Consequently, nothing can hide the criminal acts of the Mao group, which is undermining and liquidating the Communist Party of China.
p
Further, the Mao group openly flouts the Party’s organisational principle as laid down in its Rules. In a proletarian Party, democratic centralism is, first and foremost, the organisational guarantee of the Party’s existence. The obliteration of this organisational principle signifies the undermining and liquidation of the Party. No matter how they implement their temporary “domination” and call themselves the "Central Committee" the Maoists stand exposed as the destroyers of the Party, for they have destroyed the principle by which the Party is organised.
p
An analysis of even the few extremely characteristic moments cited above makes it clear that the Mao group is undermining and liquidating the Communist Party of China and moving forward the "great proletarian cultural revolution" in order to replace the Communist Party of China with a personal party of Mao Tse-tung.
Further, we should like to examine the “theory” of liquidationism as expounded by the Mao group in connection with the unprecedented undermining of the Party, and also some salient features of this phenomenon.
Source: Krivtsov, V.I. 1970, "Maoism Through the Eyes of Communists". Progress Publishers
http://www.leninist.biz/en/1970/MTEC326/3.3.3-Liquidation.of.the.Communist.Party.of.China