【Current Affairs Sharing】Government ministers and military leaders are falling one after another, possibly reflecting the intensifying internal struggle within China's ruling class?

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Recently, while reading various news, I have clearly noticed that news about high-ranking officials and military leaders falling from power in the Chinese government has become more frequent than before. Of course, this behavior, aimed at expanding one’s faction’s influence and suppressing internal dissent within the bureaucratic bourgeoisie under the guise of anti-corruption, has been ongoing since Xi Jinping took office (most notably the arrests of Bo Xilai, Zhou Yongkang, and others). However, in recent years, such actions have become especially obvious and common.

The problem is that we all know politics is a concentrated expression of the economy. A country with a certain economic foundation must have a corresponding political system. For example, in old imperialist countries like the United States, there is still a certain form of democracy, and the people have the freedom to protest and demonstrate in form. The bourgeoisie’s internal struggles generally have not yet reached a life-and-death level. But as class contradictions within American imperialism—whether among the ruling class or between the ruling and the oppressed classes—gradually intensify, American imperialism and other old capitalist countries also tend toward fascism. The current U.S. has seen an increase in assassination-like behaviors. But that is a story for another time, so I will not elaborate here.

The sharp struggles among China’s ruling classes always give me the feeling that Xi Jinping is trying to consolidate all power into one, aiming for “one party, one ideology, one leader.” Because under the rule of the Chinese revisionist traitor group, China has fallen into an unavoidable capitalist economic crisis and a specific depression. The monopolist bourgeoisie, in order to safeguard their interests, transfer the economic crisis, and cover up class contradictions, will inevitably resort to violence. External wars are becoming increasingly unavoidable.

As historical materialism teaches us, history produces the person it needs. Therefore, in today’s fascist China, with the ongoing deepening of the economic crisis and the ruling class’s crisis of governance, the emergence of a strongman representing the most reactionary interests of the monopolist bourgeoisie is inevitable. Xi Jinping just happens to be such a figure. So, can we say that the current Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s continuous crackdown on so-called “big tigers” is actually aimed at consolidating all power into himself, in order to launch future wars—whether against Taiwan, Japan, or American imperialism?

Reference news links:

Wikipedia entry on the Night of the Long Knives:

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I found that many of the officials mentioned in these news reports seem to be connected to China’s border regions, such as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and the like.

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In recent years, the most obvious representative within the bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie who fought against Xi Jinping was Li Keqiang. When Xi Jinping said that China would comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society, Li Keqiang bluntly stated, “600 million people in China have a monthly income of less than 1,000 yuan.” When Xi Jinping talked about rectifying the appearance of cities, Li Keqiang jumped out to “go against the trend,” saying that the Chinese people could not survive and that the street stall economy should be vigorously developed. Even during an inspection in a certain place, Li Keqiang pointed directly at a cornfield rotted by water and meaningfully told officials at all levels, “It’s all rotten inside.” When communicating with students, he was even more sarcastic, saying, “Your blood studies today are for ‘Xi’!” (What is quite laughable is that many liberals, out of opposition to Xi Jinping, even regarded Li Keqiang as a good prime minister for the people, which is truly amusing.)

After Li Keqiang was “laid off” and mysteriously “died suddenly” of a heart attack at the age of 68 (officials at all levels in China have special organ banks, and it is quite normal for them to live into their eighties or nineties; dying in their sixties is considered a premature death), this kind of so-called anti-corruption campaign did not stop. The commander of the Rocket Force, the chief designer of the J-20, former Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang, and other prominent figures were successively removed. This shows how intense the struggle within the bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie in China is. In just the past one or two months, the military district commander in Tibet, military leaders in Xinjiang, and others have also been dismissed and fallen from power. Some ministers have been missing for several months without any news, which clearly indicates that this internal “struggle” has not only not stopped but is continuing and even expanding.

This reminds me of the Nazi Party’s similar actions after Hitler came to power, when they carried out the so-called Night of the Long Knives. Hitler did not seize all power immediately after coming to power; he also gradually completed the “historical mission” of “establishing sole authority” through so-called “struggles” and “purges,” similar to Xi Jinping. Ultimately, representing the German and Western monopoly bourgeoisie, he launched aggressive wars abroad and brutally killed countless working people.

In my view, the methods Xi Jinping is using today, which are quite similar to Hitler’s—internal purges and unification, external suppression of the people—are manifestations of the extreme crisis of the current Chinese government’s rule. This shows that Xi Jinping cannot maintain the rule of his class and group through so-called “intra-party democracy”; externally, they cannot deceive the people or carry out reforms through democratic or peaceful means. They can only use the most brutal fascist methods to suppress because even the smallest reform could become the beginning of a mass movement that would overthrow this reactionary, shaky class rule. Once a Marxist party in China truly develops and leads the people to completely overthrow this government—in today’s China, where economic crises continuously erupt and people’s lives are extremely difficult—this is inevitable. Xi Jinping, who has concentrated all power, will immediately put the “Four Cuts” (四刀) on the agenda, brutally suppress internally and expand aggression externally to maintain his class’s rule and seek huge profits through war.

However, reactionaries always end up shooting themselves in the foot. Historically, Japanese imperialism and German Nazism started with such obviously selfish goals but ultimately met their own demise. Now, the Chinese fascist revisionists who are turning back the wheel of history will surely follow in the footsteps of their predecessors!

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It is like this. From this, it can be seen that although many liberals say Xi Jinping is an emperor, and we jokingly mock him as the “sole authority” Confucian “pig,” he is not truly the “sole authority.” The contradictions within the ruling class are also very sharp, and among these, in the military and in some “remote mountain” regions, the hostile factions cannot be suppressed by Xi Jinping without directly depriving them of their political life to maintain his rule. This method indicates that Xi Jinping himself is extremely weak and powerless.

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Moreover, if China and Russia go to war, it would be self-destruction. Russia’s biggest ally has been thoroughly defeated by the Ukrainian people. If it weren’t for the repression of the Ukrainian people by the reactionary Ukrainian government and American imperialism, Russian imperialism would have long been driven out of Ukraine. Despite Russian imperialism’s full efforts, including blitzkrieg and various advanced weapons, it still cannot defeat Ukraine. Chinese imperialism will face the same fate in the future world war.

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Previously, Fenghuo said that the reason Russia cannot quickly take down other capitalist small countries like fascist Germany did in World War II is because the consciousness of the masses in various countries has risen after the Second World War, and they will not be easily deceived by fascism to go to the battlefield. The current revisionist China is the same; it seems strong, but this strength is all a disguise. The vast majority of suppressed workers’ strikes are due to the lack of a unified revolutionary organization. If in the future actions like the Hamburg general strike break out in Nazi China, the Nazis probably will not be able to suppress them at all. Moreover, the Nazi standing army only has a little over two million people in total, and even counting the police, they are outnumbered by the workers in a large city. When Hamburg workers once fought against the German Wehrmacht at a ratio of one to ten, if Chinese workers rise up today, they will surely be able to fiercely defeat these Nazi regular troops.

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That’s exactly how it is. According to news from 2022, after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, China directly concentrated its troops around Fujian. Many right-wing elements also began to stir up public opinion online, claiming that Taiwan could be taken in 1 hour and 22 minutes. The Chinese troops that reached Fujian also entered radio silence, indicating that their intention to attack Taiwan was quite clear. However, the disastrous defeat of the Russian army in Ukraine made the Chinese government hesitant to act rashly, and in the end, China quietly withdrew its troops. It can be said that the struggle of the Ukrainian people not only defended their own country but also strongly supported the people of Taiwan.

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And I remember there was news before that the Russian fascists are actually very crazy, looking down on Ukraine, overestimating their own strength, and even planning to attack Japan. Combined with what you said about the Nazis planning to militarily invade Taiwan, it shows that in 2022, the Sino-Russian imperialists actually had the idea of starting a world war.

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From the moment the Chinese revisionists (中修) start a war, they intend to transform the imperialist war into a domestic revolutionary movement. Now, the domestic class contradictions within the Chinese revisionists are becoming increasingly sharp, and the people’s dissatisfaction with them is growing. The public’s understanding of the Chinese revisionists is becoming clearer and clearer. Moreover, this year, there have been more and more mass movements directly opposing the Chinese revisionists. From Pucheng to Jiangyou, only a few months apart? Previously, there might not have been even one such incident in a whole year. The Jiangyou incident also reflects that the masses are increasingly seeing through the Chinese revisionists. From the start, the masses completely ignored the official announcements of the Chinese revisionists, directly stormed into government buildings, took control of the venues, confronted the revisionist officials face to face demanding explanations, and later even shouted slogans like “Return our democracy,” calling for the people to be masters of their own affairs and to hold political power. Just like the famous saying, “War causes revolution, revolution stops war.” If the Chinese revisionists dare to start a war, they will ultimately be overthrown by the masses.

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Today in Lianhe Zaobao’s news, it was reported that there is a shortage of senior cadres in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (seemingly at the level of lieutenant general and above, and the Central Military Commission’s staffing is also not fully filled). I feel that this is likely due to the intensification of class contradictions, which has led to fierce struggles within the ruling class, causing various military leaders to attack each other, resulting in this shortage of senior military commanders.

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This also illustrates that the class struggle of the masses is not only in service to the people within a country but is also beneficial to the struggles of the people internationally. The struggle of one country is always interconnected with the struggles against other exploiting countries. This fully proves the correctness of proletarian internationalism.

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That’s right, what you said is absolutely correct.

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On September 30, the Chinese Communist Party held a Politburo meeting, deciding the date for the 20th Central Committee’s Fourth Plenary Session. It also announced many personnel changes, all involving important regions such as Jiangsu and Liaoning. At this sharp turning point of contradictions, various bourgeois media have been eagerly awaiting, and there are even a bunch of “Zhongnanhai bed listeners” speculating whether Xi Jinping has been taken down by other factions. Such rumors stem from the belief that China’s fate can be decided by a few bureaucratic internal factions, and that as long as a different person is in power, China will have democracy, and so on. They probably thought the same about Xi Jinping before he came to power. But the fact proves that Xi Jinping’s rise was not his personal will, but that the Chinese bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie, facing increasingly sharp class contradictions, had to promote Xi Jinping, this crazy fascist, to serve as the head of the ruling group of the Chinese Communist Party. Without “being established as the sole authority,” it would be unfavorable to strengthen internal dictatorship, suppress the people’s movements, and also unfavorable for external military expansion and preparation for war. Based on this pattern, Xi Jinping cannot be removed from power by any so-called healthy forces within the party as the liberals speculate. This is fundamentally against the interests of the bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie because bourgeois internal struggles are only one aspect of society; they reflect the intensification of the general contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in society. From this trend, there are only two inevitable possibilities for his removal: one is that the Chinese Communist Party needs an even crazier fascist leader, and the other is that Xi Jinping will be judged by the Chinese people.

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I remember someone saying that Russia did not even concentrate superior forces when suddenly attacking Ukraine, but instead used something like airborne troops, trying to imitate their Nazi predecessors by blitzing the Ukrainian capital to force the Ukrainian comprador to surrender. As a result, they were beaten by the local people and fled in panic.