Creation: Historical Materialism Group of the Proletarian Liberation Struggle Association
“The source of officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, besides descendants and relatives of officials, was mainly through the imperial examination system. The Northern Song government attempted to absorb the gentry class officials to participate in governance, thereby consolidating feudal rule. Thus, the bureaucratic system of the Northern Song became increasingly large.”[1] In the past, socialist China’s internal functions were to oppress reactionary classes, reactionary factions, and elements resisting socialist transformation and socialist construction within the country, and to suppress all activities of treason and counterrevolution. Socialist China implemented the dictatorship of the proletariat, Mao Zedong said: “Our dictatorship is a people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on an alliance of workers and peasants. This indicates that within the people, democratic systems are practiced, while the working class unites all citizens with voting rights, primarily peasants, to implement dictatorship against reactionary classes, reactionary factions, and elements resisting socialist transformation and socialist construction.”[2] The broad cadres of socialist countries undertake the responsibilities of socialist construction and socialist revolution, and the dictatorship of the proletariat is a dictatorship of the vast majority of the proletariat over a minority of exploiters, so a large cadre force is not necessary. Since the revisionist group in China usurped power in 1976, they transformed socialist China into a social imperialist state, turning the dictatorship of the proletariat into a bureaucratic monopoly bourgeois dictatorship, implementing extremely brutal fascist rule over the Chinese people, ruthlessly suppressing proletarian revolution and all progressive movements. Therefore, to maintain their reactionary rule, they need a large number of bloodsuckers and pests funded by the revisionist treasury. In 1978, there were approximately 4.67 million civil servants working in party and government agencies[^3], and according to public data, in 2022, the number of civil servants in China was 7.1 million, including public officials, party mass organizations, trade unions, women’s federations, totaling 13 million; institutional staff was 31 million, with a total of 44 million. The total number of personnel supported by the national finance exceeded 51 million. Including retirees, China’s financed personnel have already surpassed 80 million[^4].
“The social pillar of revisionism is the worker aristocracy. The worker aristocracy is a product of the monopoly bourgeoisie’s buying policy.” [3] “The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the process of centralization, adopted the reactionary policy of ‘favoring officials to the point of fear of insufficiency, collecting wealth from the people without leaving surplus,’ to gain support from local bureaucrat-landlords for central authority.”[4] The revisionist government also inherited the ‘glorious tradition’ of its landlord predecessors, relying on its monopoly position to obtain huge monopoly profits and superprofits from colonial plunder, which are much higher than those in the homeland. They paid generous wages and subsidies to these running dogs serving the revisionist regime, making the petty bourgeoisie with strong exploitative ideas eager to be bought, willingly dedicating themselves to maintaining the reactionary rule of revisionism.
However, becoming a member of the revisionist regime also requires conditions. The 2023 national civil service exam planned to recruit 37,100 people, with nearly 2.6 million applicants passing the review, and the ratio of qualified applicants to planned recruits is about 70:1. Under the increasingly deepening economic crisis in China, many petty bourgeoisie are eager to become bureaucratic monopolist’s running dogs to enjoy the ‘iron rice bowl’ of ‘less work, more money, exploiting others,’ often only the most cunning petty bourgeoisie qualify to cross the threshold of civil service. “High education” is one of the rewards the revisionists give to these opportunists. In their opportunistic practices, they increasingly detach from the working masses, yearn more for the decadent lifestyle of less work and more money, and more fully endorse the fascist rule of revisionism, working tirelessly to maintain its brutal rule. That is why high education has become one of the standards for revisionist bureaucrats.
However, “My three generations’ efforts, why should I lose to your ten years of hard study?” The nature of the dictatorship of the Chinese bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie determines that there will inevitably be a group of “born in Rome” bureaucrat children, coming from bureaucratic capitalist families, able to rely on the nepotism of the revisionist Confucian society, with favorable conditions to become financed personnel. Formerly, there was Li Chubin[^7], who dropped out of middle school from a poor family at 20 and was elected as a Youth League Committee member; later, there was Ji Yunhao[^8], who falsified his resume claiming “I don’t understand the law.” Although the revisionists try to cover up these connections and portray them as personal struggles and extraordinary promotions, the masses have long seen through the rotten nepotism. Recently, in Wan’an County, Ji’an City, three “post-95” cadres with college diplomas are proposed for nomination as deputy heads of township people’s congresses. Obviously, these three “grassroots cadres” with only full-time technical secondary school diplomas do not fit the official image of the revisionist society as social elites. But the revisionist government continues to cling to its red surface, trying to hide its anti-people essence. After reporters contacted Wan’an County Party Committee Organization Department and the departments where these three “grassroots cadres” work, no response was given, only after Ji’an City Committee responded. However, the questions from reporters and the responses reveal the true nature of the revisionist government’s protection of bureaucratic capitalists. They talk about “some procedures not being publicly disclosed according to regulations,” “no public announcement of results,” “the relevant departments will assess their ability to perform the job,” “there should be no loopholes,” but in reality, these three grassroots cadres are just empty shells, exposing the rotten and reactionary nature of the revisionist government once again, giving a loud slap to those petty bourgeoisie eager to enter civil service.
As the exploitation of revisionism intensifies and class contradictions deepen, the regime needs to buy more and more running dogs to scheme and serve its fascist rule, but this can only increase the burden on the working people, further intensify class conflicts, and lead the revisionist into a path of self-destruction by buying and suppressing the people. Those who become revisionist running dogs for parasitic enjoyment are also equally rotten and useless, and the more the revisionists try to use these running dogs to suppress the people, the more they will provoke resistance from the working masses. In the end, the revisionists will only be shooting themselves in the foot, leading to their overthrow by the Chinese people.
On the other hand, with the deepening economic crisis and the resistance of the people, the revisionists find it increasingly difficult to monopolize profits. Maintaining such a large bureaucratic system is no longer sustainable, and cutting costs is inevitable. In 2018, the revisionist government proposed to streamline 5% of central government agencies, and to reduce local government subsidies, provinces are also vigorously cutting staff. In 2024, Henan Province is reducing its institutional staff at the provincial level according to the “531” ratio, with no less than 50% reduction in institutional units outside schools and hospitals, and at least 30% reduction in staffing, with a minimum of 10% reduction in fiscal-funded staff. The iron rice bowl coveted by petty bourgeoisie is gradually collapsing, and the dream of living parasitically under revisionist rule by exploiting others has also shattered. We warn these people not to be crushed by the wheel of history with the rotten revisionist regime, but to quickly extricate themselves from the mud of collusion with revisionism and embark on the path of revolutionary transformation.
“Ancient Chinese History,” Volume II, 1976 edition ↩︎
Mao Zedong, “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” Selected Works of Mao Zedong (First Edition) ↩︎
Nankai University Department of Political Economy, “Political Economy (Imperialism Section)” (Revised Edition), p. 92 ↩︎
“Drafts of Ancient Chinese History,” Volume II
六问“3名95后大专学历女干部被提拔副科”：能否公开透明? ↩︎