On July 12, 2025, the Shaanxi Province Weinan Intermediate People’s Court ignored the strong demands of the victim’s family for the execution of the heinous wife-murdering demon and male chauvinist Li Mouchun (hereinafter referred to as Li Mou), and announced that the face soup wife-choking case was “postponed again due to complex case facts.” Since the initial filing, the case has been delayed twice, and nearly a year has passed since Wu Moli (hereinafter Xiao Wu) was tortured and killed by live boiling, yet the so-called “absent justice” has not arrived to comfort her wrongful death. Her blood cries out, her injustice waits every day, but what finally comes is another “postponement,” as if her death is insignificant and Li Mou’s survival is of utmost importance.
Under the clever title of “Face Soup Chokes Wife to Death,” unaware people might think this is an accidental tragedy or a minor incident. But what is the reality? Let’s take a closer look:
On September 4, 2024, early morning, Li Mou, after drinking, argued with Xiao Wu. Having long regarded domestic violence against his wife as routine, Li Mou, seeing Xiao Wu dare to retort, was furious and cruelly beat Xiao Wu with steel rulers, belts, and kitchen knives, causing her face to swell and turn bloodshot, with large areas of bruising and purple on her chest and back, and her arms completely broken. This beast Li Mou, after beating Xiao Wu to the brink of death, did not stop but dragged her to the boiling face soup boiler, pressed her head completely into the soup, forcing her to inhale the scalding face soup until she stopped struggling completely.
Afterwards, Li Mou, realizing that Xiao Wu had been murdered and that he might face imprisonment, hastily called Xiao Wu’s mother to say, “Your daughter is about to die.” When Xiao Wu’s parents arrived, this beast pretended to be deeply affectionate, knelt on the spot, and shed crocodile tears, saying, “Mom, I’m sorry, I didn’t take good care of your daughter,” but did not mention why Xiao Wu died in the middle of the night. Even as he knelt, her body was haphazardly laid on the chopping board, with blood continuously oozing from her mouth. When the police and ambulance arrived late, Xiao Wu’s body was already cold, and the soup boiler was still at 70 degrees Celsius!
After Li Mou was taken away, did he realize his mistake? No! At the court session on February 19 this year, to escape punishment, Li Mou first claimed he only “scared” his wife, making excuses such as “I don’t remember clearly after drinking.” Seeing that was useless, he pretended to repent and pleaded guilty, saying “If the court sentences me to death, I am willing to accept,” to appear pitiful and falsely accuse the deceased wife of “cheating,” thus arguing that the violence was entirely Xiao Wu’s “self-inflicted.” When this trick was exposed due to lack of evidence, he became even more shameless, spitting out foul language, claiming “My wife was not killed by me, but scared to death, I did not directly kill her!”
However, even at this depraved level, the revisionist Chinese public security, procuratorate, and judiciary, which have always been the protectors of male chauvinism, still consider “Li Mou’s confession” as an aggravating factor, repeatedly “mediating” and “reconciling” both parties to “maintain stability.” Moreover, Li Mou’s son, [2], also repeatedly demanded his grandmother—Xiao Wu’s mother—to sign a reconciliation letter. The absurdly reactionary Chinese government postponed the trial date once again on July 12, granting Li Mou another three months of life!
Since the re-establishment of capitalism in China, numerous cases of women being oppressed, abused, and murdered have occurred. From the Xuzhou iron chain woman, Zhang Ling, Xiao Xie, Wu Xiuxiu, to today’s Wu Moli, women’s blood and tears have flowed into rivers across the land, countless women suffering injustice and dying in silence. As Engels pointed out: “Modern individual families are built on the household slavery of women, openly or secretly… This gives the husband a ruling position without any special legal privileges. In the family, the husband is the property owner, and the wife is akin to the proletariat.” In capitalist society, especially in China, where Confucianism’s poison is widespread and fascist male chauvinism rampant, women essentially have no rights. Women like Xiao Wu are forced to sell themselves in small households during their lifetime, and in daily unpaid domestic labor, become tools and sexual objects for men; after death, they must silently endure the slander of male chauvinist beasts like Li Mou, finding no peace even in their graves.
When the so-called “Face Soup Wife-Choking Case” was exposed and went viral, many male chauvinists jumped out to defend Li Mou as “comrades of the same class.” When Li Mou falsely accused Xiao Wu of cheating, they cooperated, pretending to be “rational, neutral, and objective,” claiming “the full picture is unknown, no comment,” while spreading baseless rumors, imagining that the victim was the first to attack, even claiming “it’s a family dispute, the children have no opinion, suggesting acquittal,” and shamelessly arguing “those talking about domestic violence are promoting male guilt theory!”
Why does the Chinese government protect murderers and domestic abusers? Why do some invert right and wrong, supporting the killers? In fact, the purpose of the Chinese government shielding murderers and abusers is consistent with that of male chauvinists. As the “Revolutionary Road of the Future in China” states: “The bourgeoisie, in order to ensure the stability of the capitalist exploitation based on modern slavery, must maintain the feudal patriarchal system and patrilineal inheritance. They will inevitably promote theories that glorify reactionary Confucianism. The Chinese fascist government hysterically calls for the revival of ‘Chinese excellent traditional culture.’ When explaining the relationship between their social system and Confucian culture, they say: ‘Chinese excellent traditional culture is the fertile soil of socialism with Chinese characteristics,’ openly admitting that the Chinese-style perverted capitalism is built on this perverted Confucian ideology.” The Chinese government’s protection of male chauvinists and domestic abusers is to maintain capitalist rule, and the most ardent supporters of the current capitalist order are precisely male chauvinists. As “male chauvinism” is just a disguised form of chauvinism, male chauvinists are essentially the abusers and exploiters in old families, chauvinists. They benefit from the old family and oppression of women, all granted by the fascist Confucian government, and most are right-wing or rogue proletarians in terms of economic and political status [5], thus they are eager for war and invasion, fantasizing about profiting from China’s external expansion and climbing higher on the exploiters’ throne; internally, they deny the revolutionary history of socialist China (or the “mutual non-denial” of the past thirty years), support suppression of mass movements, attack women’s liberation, and protect their own interests. Therefore, the Chinese government is essentially the backstage of all domestic abusers and wife-murderers, the concentrated expression of all reactionary male chauvinist ideology; male chauvinists also represent the Chinese government, acting as foot soldiers in maintaining Confucian social order and executing its dictatorship from the shadows.
The plight of Xiao Wu is not an isolated case. According to public reports from 2016-2019, at least 942 cases of domestic violence leading to death occurred in China, causing 1,214 deaths, with women accounting for about 76%, meaning every five days, three women die from domestic violence. A 2016 survey by the All-China Women’s Federation showed that 30% of married women in China had experienced domestic violence, with an average of one wife being beaten every 7.4 seconds, and victims often endured more than 30 instances before reporting. Yet even when reporting, women often cannot protect their legal rights and must swallow humiliation in silence.
Many wonder: what causes this social phenomenon of domestic violence? What truly killed Xiao Wu? And how can such tragedies be prevented?
Just as social existence decisively influences social consciousness, the existence of domestic violence is an inevitable product of specific social systems. The private ownership of the means of production under capitalism inevitably leads to stark wealth disparities and the further reinforcement of patriarchy, which causes women to lose equal status with men, deprived of even basic rights, and pushed onto the path of household slavery. As Clara Zetkin pointed out: “With the emergence of private property, women first became the property of men; with the development of private property and social division into classes, women became slaves to men—both wives and laborers—and their original freedoms vanished.” The decline of women’s social status has become even more evident since the world entered the imperialist stage, especially after China’s reversion to capitalism and its rise as the world’s second-largest imperialist power. After the comprehensive re-establishment of capitalism through “reform and opening,” the reactionary Chinese traitor group, citing physiological reasons and other excuses, treats women as cheap commodities, causing their economic and political status to plummet, with many women entirely dependent on their families and husbands for survival. Moreover, to destroy the superstructure of socialist times, they continuously introduce and spread Western bourgeois decadent and pornographic philosophies, poisoning youth with大量色情文艺，将妇女贬低为仅供男子发泄性欲的工具。并通过一贯的儒教手段，或直接或间接宣扬“女子应遵从传统”的反动儒教思想，彻底将中国社会变成偷窥狂、强奸犯和家暴男的社会——2002-2023年间，仅被统计的强奸案件审结就已高达 51.1万件，这一触目惊心的数字背后，是无数妇女流不尽的血泪！中国广大劳动妇女就在这地狱般的土地上日日夜夜生活，被耗光了蓬勃发展的朝气，被磨尽了所有发展的可能，最终只能一头扎进旧社会、旧家庭的漩涡中，以生命为代价，成为无名的牺牲品。
正是在这样一个耗尽她生命力、吸干她鲜血的旧家庭中，像小吴一样的女性带着对生命的无限渴望死去。此刻，世界上仍有无数像小吴一样的女性，正面临日复一日的死亡威胁，难以挣脱旧社会的泥潭。难道女子真的只能一辈子过着出嫁从夫、当牛做马的**“背时”**生活吗？[8] 女子一生，除了以“不婚不嫁”的消极手段保护自己外，难道没有其他出路？答案是否定的。
正如所有马克思主义者都应认识到：“工人阶级不仅是受压迫最深的阶级，同时也是包含着最伟大的力量的阶级”；我们也应看到：妇女同样不仅是受压迫最深的群众，而且也是蕴含着最大力量的群众。一旦觉醒的妇女认识到自身的伟大力量，这个世界上觉醒的半数人口，必能与工人阶级一道，推翻一切对妇女的压迫和苦难的根源，在中国重新建立社会主义制度。
小吴的死是一场无法挽回的悲剧。在二十年的恐怖中，她的生命逐渐被这个男权社会吸食殆尽，最终连生命也被李某这头恶兽夺走。在这个世界上，还有成千上万像小吴一样的女性，曾经遭受、正在遭受、将要遭受这样的苦难。她们被束缚在家庭的牢笼中，被埋葬在沉默的黄土里，呼喊呐喊无人响应，仰望苍天也找不到救星。对妇女解放的态度，始终是检验真假马克思主义的试金石。在未来的社会主义运动中，革命群众和马克思主义者绝不再容忍这类暴行的发生。任何包庇纵容这种暴行的人，也都必将受到人民的严惩！而我们，作为还活着、还要奋斗、致力于推翻这场吃人的筵席的人，必须说：
我们追悼过去的人，还要发誓：要消除这个世界上的昏迷和暴力，害人害己的行为。
我们追悼过去的人，还要发誓：要消除制造和享受他人痛苦的昏迷和暴力。
我们还要发誓：让人类都能获得应有的幸福。[9]