Maoism will never be vanquished in China
Maoism is deeply rooted in the minds of workers and peasants in China. Out of grave fear, the revisionist leadership in the Communist Party and the bourgeois state forcibly tries to eradicate it.
On December 24, four Maoists in the city of Zhengzhou in Henan, China were sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Their supposed crime was "undermining social order and national interest."
What did they do? On September 9, 2004, the 28th death anniversary of Mao Zedong, Zhang Zhengyao distributed a pamphlet extolling Mao Zedong and exposing and criticizing the rottenness of the capitalist system which the revisionists restored when they seized political power in 1976. Zhang Zhengyao, his wife Ge Liying, and his friends Wang Zhanqing and Zhang Ruquan, were arrested.
The revisionist regime was incensed by the statement "Mao Zedong, Forever our Leader," which said that "the workers and peasants will always stand by the side of Mao Zedong," and what he has done to "expose the reactionary leadership of the pro-capitalist forces inside our Party who seized state power and control of the Party and divided the wealth of the state among themselves."
Zhang recalled the period of socialist revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, when "the Chinese people were the masters of the country." They asserted that despite the rhetoric about "socialism with Chinese characteristics," the Chinese state today is a state "owned by the capitalist class." Thus, under the revisionist regime, the working class no longer works for itself, but is "creating surplus value for the capitalist class."
Zhang assailed the wide gap between the richest and the poorest of the people. On one side are the billionaire bureaucrat capitalists pretending to be "socialists," but who really adore capitalism as it would bring them the greatest benefit. And on the other side are the hundreds of millions of workers and peasants who now suffer abject poverty, oppression and exploitation. "A line has thus been clearly drawn. Mao Zedong is the leader of over 95% of the Chinese people."
Zhang firmly declared that the Chinese people's struggle for socialism will continue. "When development of contradictions and mass struggles nationwide reaches a climax, the people within the Party, the government and the army who have understood the true nature of revisionism will wage a resolute struggle against it, and will rejoin the proletarian class ranks to hold high the banner of Mao Zedong and to resume the fight for socialism in China ."
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