Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1320-W935

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1320-W935

Release Date: September 10, 2020

发布日：2020年9月10日

Topic: Observation of the Opposition within the Chinese Communist Party -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：党内反对派观察 -- 魏京生

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Observation of the Opposition within the Chinese Communist Party

-- Wei Jingsheng

There has been too much international news recently, and people have overlooked a major event that is very important to us Chinese. This is Xi Jinping's determination to put Mr. Ren Zhiqiang on trial. This trial will be a landmark event in China's political life, a strong suppression of the opposition within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or a watershed in whether Xi Jinping can maintain his dictatorship.

Speaking of the opposition within the CCP, the history is indeed very long. Starting from the “established capitalist leaders” Liu Shaoqi and Peng Dehuai, it can be said that it began at the same time as the Chinese Communist Party took power. The opposition evolved as the democrats moved to the anti-Mao Zedong movement during the Cultural Revolution. At that time, the Communist regime and Mao Zedong had not rejected the term democracy, because democracy had been the ideal of Chinese intellectuals for nearly one century. From the perspective of political correctness, Mao Zedong did not dare to offend the public and to engender anger. He needed to fool the Chinese people to support him against the faction within the Communist leadership who advocated capitalism.

After the faction advocating capitalism within the CCP was overthrown, a group of young people who transformed from Mao’s loyalists to anti-Maoists gradually leaned towards democracy. Although the democratic consciousness at that time did not deviate from the Marxist stereotype, their tendency against Leninism dictatorship was quite strong. So the CCP authorities classified them as active counter-revolutionary organizations that needed to be suppressed.

Interestingly, most of the Rebel groups during the Cultural Revolution were anti-Communism with their red Communism flags, while the Red Guard organizations, which clearly opposed the dictators, were considered as organizations with anti-Communist flags against the Communist leadership. Mao Zedong and (his wife) Jiang Qing clique were successful in provoking opposition between the rebel groups and the Red Guards, then eliminating them one by one. This was one of the main ways for the Mao Zedong clique to always control the situation during the Cultural Revolution era.

After the Cultural Revolution, the Rebel groups were completely eliminated, although the Red Guards against dictatorship and Mao Zedong did not end well either. That is because the anti-Mao Red Guards were mostly children of the Communist Cadres, and there were many daring children of the Communist cadres who were the leaders of the Rebel groups as well. Although some of these children became members of vested interest groups who got rich first in China, most of them still held strong democratic ideas and were bolder than ordinary intellectuals in China. Deng Xiaoping maintained a high degree of vigilance against these people. The famous leadership rule that "only one person from each (Communist leader) family can be an official within the Communist leadership" was proposed by Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun.

These Red Guard and Rebel leaders were the elites of that generation and gradually moved towards leadership positions in the 1980s and 1990s. This aroused the high vigilance of the Communist regime. So the Communist regime used the Hong Kong and Taiwan media they controlled to publicize pedigree theory, and incitements from the second generation of red Communist leaders and princelings were rampant. Isn't this a repeat of Mao Zedong's old trick of splitting the opposition? Is it really true that all vested interest groups are the second generation of red Communist leaders? Are all the opposition members from the families who were suppressed by the Communist regime? To the least it is a decadent ancient thinking by not dividing people according to their own political stance, but according to where their families descend from.

Are (Communist leaders) Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Wen Jiabao the children of the Communist cadres? They are just upholding authoritarian politics in China with Xi Jinping does although Xi upholding even more. Instead, Ren Zhiqiang, Cai Xia and others who opposed the autocratic dictatorship, were said to be not truly anti-Communism by more sophisticated Communist agents on the Internet. This is the latest skillful leading for public opinion on the Internet that is called guiding the direction of the wind. It wants to bring many anti-communist fellows who are not good at thinking into pitfalls. It continues to instigate the assembly of anti-communism people and to maintain the one-party authoritarian regime.

I have said forty years ago that we should concentrate our pain causing anger toward the reactionary autocracy. However, the past and present Communist leaders pin their hopes on instigating conflicts within the opposition. Modern day Communist agents know how to first disguise themselves as anti-communists, and then use this false identity to guide the trend of thoughts and complete their task of controlling public opinion. Looking at the Internet, you know that the Communist agents that are wasting the money from the Communist regime by simply cursing have been greatly reduced, while the Communist agents who act as anti-communists to curse the democracy movement have greatly increased. This shows that the Chinese Communist propaganda methods have also evolved with the times. Our friends who support democracy and freedom should keep their eyes open and discern carefully, instead of falling into the tricks of the Chinese Communist regime that instigate discord.

Our sober-minded friends should be able to see that Xi Jinping's severe crackdown on the opposition within the Communist leadership is exactly the measure he took as he facing the threat of peaceful evolution within the Communist leadership. The confluence of the civil opposition and the opposition within the Communist leadership is an opportunity for China to evolve peacefully towards democracy. Let us not follow the trend guided by the modern Communist agents which would destroy the unity of the democrats. Otherwise we the Chinese will miss another good opportunity for democracy and freedom.

(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)

Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-09102020164853.html

To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2020/WeiJS200909onRenZQtrial.mp3

(Written and recorded on September 9, 2020. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on September 10, 2020.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1320-W935

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1320-W935

Release Date: September 10, 2020

发布日：2020年9月10日

Topic: Observation of the Opposition within the Chinese Communist Party -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：党内反对派观察 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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党内反对派观察

-- 魏京生

最近的国际新闻太多，人们忽略了对咱们中国人很重要的一件大事，这就是习近平下决心对任志强先生审判。这个审判将是中国政治生活中的标志性的大事，是对党内反对派的强力镇压，或者说习近平是否能够维持他的独裁统治的分水岭。

说起中共内部的反对派，历史确实非常悠久。从刘少奇、彭德怀的走资本主义当权派开始，可以说与共产党掌权同时开始。这个反对派走向民主派，是从文化大革命中的反毛泽东运动开始。当时的共产党和毛泽东并没有拒绝民主这个名词，因为近百年来民主就是中国知识分子的理想。从政治正确的角度毛泽东也不敢冒犯众怒，他需要忽悠人民支持他反对走资派。

在党内走资派被打倒之后，从保皇派转化为反毛派的一批年轻人，逐渐走向了粗浅的民主派。虽然当时的民主意识没有脱离马克思主义的窠臼，但反对列宁主义的专制独裁色彩相当浓厚。所以他们被当局列为现行反革命组织加以镇压。

有趣的是，当时的造反派多数都是打着红旗反红旗，而明刀明枪反对独裁者的红卫兵组织，被认为是打着白旗反红旗的组织。毛泽东和江青集团成功地挑拨他们的对立，并逐个加以消灭。这是毛泽东集团能够始终控制局面的主要条件之一。

文革结束后造反派遭到了彻底的清除，但是反独裁反毛泽东的红卫兵也没什么好下场。因为反毛的红卫兵以干部子弟居多，而造反派头头里边也有很多敢言的干部子弟。虽然一部分人成为先富起来的既得利益集团成员，但大部分人仍然持有强烈的民主思想，而且比一般知识分子更大胆。邓小平对这些人保持了高度警惕性，著名的“一家只能出一个人当官”的规矩，就是邓小平、陈云提出来的。

这些红卫兵和造反派是那一代人里的精英，八九十年代逐渐走向领导岗位。这就引起了共产党的高度警惕。于是利用他们控制的港台媒体，大肆宣扬血统论，什么红二代、太子党之类的煽动甚嚣尘上。这不就是毛泽东分裂反对派的故伎重演吗？！试问既得利益集团都是红二代吗？反对派里都是地富反坏子女吗？不是按政治立场而是按血统分派，至少也是腐朽的古代思维吧。

江泽民、胡锦涛、温家宝是干部子弟吗？他们和习近平在维护专制政治上，也就是五十步笑百步。而任志强、蔡霞等人反对专制独裁，反而被高级网上特务说成不是真反共。这就是最新的网络舆论技术，叫做带风向。它要把很多不善思考的反共的同人们带到坑里去。并继续挑拨反共同志的集结，维护一党专制的政权。

我在四十年前就说过，要把痛苦造成的怒火集中到反动的专制体制上。但过去和现在的共产党专职领袖们，则把希望寄托在挑拨反对派矛盾上。而现代化的特务五毛们，很懂得先化装成反共人士，再利用这个假身份带风向，完成控制舆论的任务。看看网上就知道，浪费经费只会骂人的五毛大大减少了，扮演成反共人士大骂民运的五毛大大增加了。这说明共产党的宣传手法也与时俱进了。支持民主自由的朋友们，应该擦亮眼睛仔细辨别，不要中了共产党挑拨离间的诡计。

头脑清醒的朋友们，应该能够看到：习近平严厉打击体制内的反对派，正是他面临党内和平演变的威胁而采取的措施。而民间反对派和体制内反对派合流，正是中国和平演变走向民主的机会。不要再跟着现代派五毛的风向走，破坏民主派的联合，否则咱们中国人又要错过一次民主自由的好机会了。

(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)

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