I am trying to understand the situation in China and have come across two political parties. I hope you can tell me about them because they are a mystery and the information is very confusing. One is the Maoist Communist Party of China, which I saw on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoist_Communist_Party_of_China); the other is the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of China, which I saw in the magazine “A World To Win” by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM).
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The former (i.e., “Maoist Communist Party of China”) should refer to the “Chinese Maoist Communist Party” (abbreviated as Zhong Mao Gong). This organization indeed explicitly states that Zhong Xiu (the Chinese revisionists) are usurping the party and seizing power, and aims to overthrow the revisionist government. However, their security work was not well done; shortly after their founding, they were discovered by the police and nearly dismantled (founded on December 26, 2008, issued the “Letter to the People of the Whole Country” in 2009, and their core members were directly arrested during a meeting on October 15, 2009). They are now probably no longer active; they have their own official website and online newspaper, but both have ceased updates. Moreover, Zhong Mao Gong also has many errors. They prematurely declared the founding of a party before their influence objectively reached the level of a political party, which is false advertising; they describe Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine as a “dog-eat-dog” internal struggle between the US and Russian imperialist groups, thus denying the issues of invasion and resistance, and consequently denying the justice of the Ukrainian people’s resistance against Russian troops; they also believe that students can just go to factories to experience life without truly becoming part of the working class.
Zhong Mao Gong official website: https://proletarianstruggles.wordpress.com/
The latter (i.e., “Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of China”) should refer to the “Chinese Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)” (abbreviated as Zhong Gong Ma Lie). This organization probably consists of revolutionary party members and masses who, after China’s capitalist restoration, continue to insist on fighting against the comprador class and defending the fruits of the revolution. There is likely more than one such organization; however, due to insufficient historical materials, current available information is very limited and can only be supported by some evidence. For example, after Deng Xiaoping, the revisionist leader, seized power and launched a counterattack against revolutionary masses (the so-called “clearing out the three types of people”), he explicitly mentioned that even after their capitalist restoration, some revolutionary forces within the party and domestically were still accumulating strength to counterattack. This can serve as a clear basis that revolutionary forces still existed at that time. Here are some original quotes from Deng Xiaoping (of course, spoken in a slanderous tone, so should be read inversely):
“Among these people, some do have a bit of ability, can write and speak, have a certain level of culture, are liked by people, and can handle affairs. Their basic situation is to lurk and hide… As long as we are slightly negligent, they will rise up. When the soil and climate are favorable to them in the future, they will stir up trouble and seize the opportunity to come to power. Therefore, we must not underestimate the power of these people, nor the danger they pose to our party.”
“The most dangerous are the ‘three types of people’… The reason why they are considered most dangerous is: 1. They insist on their original factional ideas, with a set of provocative and subversive political propositions; 2. They have cunning political tactics, disguising themselves when unfavorable, deceiving trust, and when the time is right, inciting trouble and creating new chaos; 3. They transfer, spread, and secretly establish factional contacts in many parts of the country, with hidden connections not yet fully eliminated; 4. They are relatively young and more cultured. Some of them have long declared their intention to wait ten or twenty years. In short, they are an ambitious political force that should not be underestimated. If not resolved during the rectification, they will leave a disaster and become a time bomb.”
Later, probably through various means such as repression and buying off the comprador forces, the revolutionary forces were suppressed. The Zhong Gong Ma Lie also disappeared from sight. There is a post on the forum that translated an article published in 1980 by this organization through the American Revolutionary Communist Party’s official publication “Revolutionary Worker,” criticizing the Chinese revisionist group. The reason it is called a translation is that currently, no original materials or articles from this organization can be found on domestic internet sources; only the English version is available for re-translation into Chinese. You can check out this article, which is very well written (the original PDF is attached in the post, and reading the English version might be more convenient for you).
However, you mentioned that you saw this organization in an article on RIM. Could you share the original text? I want to know how it was mentioned there.
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Thank you for your explanation, and here is what you requested:
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Center Mao Tonghe has not stopped activities, their party representatives — Jiashi Group administrators have recently come online again. If you want to understand the real situation and positions, you should contact them yourself.
Jiashi Workers Support Group contact email
Douzhenbao email
“Support Jiashi Co-workers” group
t(dot)me(slash)JSshengyuan
@Hongshu The many incorrect viewpoints mentioned above come from that official website and the contact information you reprinted; even if there are new messages in these groups, their activity is far less than before, and the official site has not posted new articles for a long time. Saying they have stopped activities is not problematic. The few individuals who still occasionally post messages cannot really be said to represent the organization.
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