Originally published at: 揭下中国左圈最后一块遮羞布！——徐加金 – 曙光
Unmasking the Left Circle in China
[1] The Last Piece of Shame! — Xu JiajinEditorial Department of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Proletariat
On November 16th, Xu Jiajin, a student from Yixing Wuxi Arts and Crafts Vocational and Technical College, was sent by bourgeois academia into a factory to serve as cheap labor. After long-term oppression by bourgeois academia and factory capitalists, he wrote a so-called “suicide note.” In the “suicide note,” he declared, “I will speak out for workers, this world needs change,” “I would rather die than be exploited and oppressed again, I hope my death will promote the progress of labor laws,” and even subtly threatened, “You (schools and factories) are bullying me too much… Some accounts must be settled, I will fight with my life… I will expose this matter… Long live victory, long live the people, long live the workers, long live the proletariat…” showing a posture ready to seek personal revenge against bourgeois academia and factory capitalists.
So, how exactly does this fellow, who vows to “promote the progress of labor laws with my death,” plan to “settle accounts” with the oppressors? This fierce Xu Jiajin dares not confront teachers, headmasters, or principals of bourgeois academia, nor factory foremen, financial officers, or capitalists. He also dares not confront the police or education bureau of the “Zhongxiu” (Chinese revisionist) regime. Instead, he wields a knife and rushes straight to the female students’ dormitory, brutally attacking innocent female classmates unarmed, causing 8 deaths and 17 injuries—a tragic catastrophe. Xu Jiajin’s act of “drawing the blade against the weaker” clearly reveals whom he intends to “settle accounts” with, and what his slogans like “Long live victory, long live the people, long live the workers, long live the proletariat” truly mean.
Regarding the murder of the female students by Xu Jiajin, there are two prevailing opinions in society: one, represented by the official comments of the Zhongxiu regime, claims that Xu Jiajin’s incident is an accidental, isolated personal crime, claiming that his criminal act was due to “personal reasons,” ignoring the rotten social atmosphere of capitalist China, and completely “cuts off” the connection between the reactionary rule of the Zhongxiu regime and Xu Jiajin’s killing. This kind of excuse, like closing one’s ears while stealing a bell, is merely an attempt to cover up the fact that Chinese capitalist society is on the brink of collapse, pretending to be righteous to deceive the people. However, this attempt to gloss over reality is futile. Marx and Engels have long pointed out that crime is “an isolated fight of individuals against ruling relations” and “crime and the current ruling class arise from the same conditions”. [2]
Xu Jiajin, who murdered innocent female students, was originally a petty bourgeois student living parasitically, dreaming of “flying high” through academic achievement. He was long influenced by the reactionary bourgeois culture prevalent in Chinese society—selfishness, licentiousness, indulgence, contempt for labor—and immersed in video games and yellow trash, forming an extremely reactionary ideology that oppresses women and benefits oneself at the expense of others. However, the reality of Chinese capitalism shattered his dreams—bourgeois academia pushed him into a capitalist labor camp, collaborating with capitalists to endlessly exploit him: working “two or three shifts,” “16 hours a day,” “no rest days for a month,” unpaid overtime, no insurance, no compensation, illegal fines without reason, threats of dismissal for sick leave, delayed wages… Finally, his graduation certificate was held by the school, becoming a shackle around his neck. This morally decayed parasitic student, a “petty bourgeois who has been driven mad by capitalism” [3], because of capitalist oppression, was furious but dared not fire upon the bourgeoisie or police he could not afford to offend. Instead, he chose to harm innocents, venting his personal hatred on helpless female students. The brutal exploitation and oppression of workers, including interns, are caused by the barbaric fascist rule of the Zhongxiu regime; the widespread reactionary, vulgar, pornographic, violent, and murderous culture in society is also created by the bourgeoisie controlling the production of spiritual materials. Therefore, Xu Jiajin, a twisted and morally degenerate murderer, is of course a product of the Zhongxiu regime’s creation. Isn’t this an obvious fact? Given this, it is a huge joke that the Zhongxiu regime, the root cause of such tragedies, hypocritically condemns Xu Jiajin’s crimes. It’s better not to pretend to be naive.
The capitalist society is our disaster! As long as capitalism does not perish, such perverted criminal events will not cease.
On the other hand, the right-wing petty bourgeois in the Chinese left circle unprincipledly glorifies Xu Jiajin’s murder of female students, calling it “atomized rebellion,” “forced to commit harm,” and views the lives of innocent people as “fuel” and “cost” for their so-called “revolution.” Even the famous “Teacher Yang”—Yang Heping—also claims that Xu Jiajin’s murderous acts are “imperfect resistance.” But is Xu Jiajin really a “resister” who commits slaughter for “revolution”? Absolutely not! He is a staunch supporter of capitalism’s right wing. He is not a proletarian revolutionary but a mad petty bourgeois criminal. His thoughts contain no Marxism, only anarchism!
Someone may ask, is it contradictory to admit that Xu Jiajin’s crime is “an isolated fight of individuals against ruling relations” while also acknowledging that his actions support capitalism? No, it’s not. When talking about Xu Jiajin opposing capitalist rule, it means he opposes his own oppressed position; when talking about his support for capitalism, it means he wishes to remain part of the ruling class under the foundation of capitalism—private ownership. That is, he does not oppose capitalism outright, but only wants a capitalism that benefits himself—one that oppresses others but not himself. Isn’t that the truth? Xu Jiajin, though oppressed himself, ultimately concludes that he is “speaking out for workers,” but he almost never mentions the general workers oppressed with him. In his “suicide note,” he obsessively focuses on his graduation certificate—the “pig butt stamp” of Wuxi Arts and Crafts Vocational and Technical College. His description of other workers’ conditions is just a brief, abstract summary—“ruthless exploitation and oppression”; but when it comes to his own graduation certificate, ten lines of text seem to pour out his unending resentment for not being able to obtain it. [4]
It’s clear that in Xu Jiajin’s “suicide note,” the words “proletariat” are hollow and hypocritical, because he does not truly represent the entire proletariat, nor does he speak for any worker beyond himself; he only advocates for his personal interests being harmed.
In Xu Jiajin’s “suicide note,” various reactionary jargon copied from the bourgeoisie also fully reveal his class nature. He begins by saying, “When the avalanche comes, no snowflake is innocent,” “Everyone is actually part of a whole, one person’s misfortune is everyone’s misfortune,” viciously slandering the masses as ignorant, complicit mobs and accomplices, while placing his own personal interests above all else. He selfishly believes that as long as not everyone revolves around him and he is not fully supported, then no one is “innocent” or “unfortunate,” venting his most selfish malice on the oppressed masses like himself. This is the full exposure of Xu Jiajin’s egocentric worldview, because to egocentrists, only “I” am the only real thing in the world, “I” am the center of the universe, and everything should revolve around “me,” serving “my” interests. If others do not do so, it is a serious insult to “me,” and it is natural for “me” to attack them with vicious language. This worldview can only be the bourgeois extreme individualist worldview, and also the worldview of anarchists advocating “absolute individual freedom.” Xu Jiajin is exactly such an anarchist. Afterwards, he also says, “Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you,” which shows he completely puts his personal interests first. When his personal gains are damaged, and his “bell” rings, he erupts in rage, venting his anger by cursing the masses, cursing them with the belief that “the bell” will also toll for them—completely insane! Near the end of his “suicide note,” Xu Jiajin’s words more plainly prove that he actually has no “proletariat,” “worker,” or “people” in his heart, only his most narrow and selfish personal interests—“I want to fight for a breath, not to prove I am great, but to tell others that I will get back what I lost.” Doesn’t this most powerfully show that he is just a selfish individual who, when faced with bankruptcy, can heinously slaughter the masses? Such a person, who is utterly selfish, only cares for himself, and schemes shamelessly to harm others to protect his own interests, is a human scoundrel. If he dares to use Marxist words, it is only because he is guilty and must use these hollow phrases to cover up his filthy deeds!
Moreover, Xu Jiajin’s obsession with his graduation certificate, even to the point of killing for it, also proves his hypocritical appearance. Xu Jiajin has never been content to be an ordinary worker; he wants to rely on a diploma to stand above manual laborers, to become a “mind worker” who “rules” others in the factory, or at best, a “technical” employee favored by capitalists due to his skills. A person who desperately wants to detach from the masses and dreams of becoming a spiritual aristocrat riding on the masses, suddenly shouts, “I will speak out for workers,” “I hope my death will promote labor law,” “Long live victory, long live the people, long live the workers, long live the proletariat”—isn’t this disgusting hypocrisy?
Indeed, the boastful Xu Jiajin did not pose any real threat to capitalism. The reason he chose to murder female students was because he had long been immersed in pornographic groups on Telegram, enjoying insulting women through various extreme perverted methods. In his sleazy, vulgar fascist male chauvinist mindset, women are just weak, helpless victims to be manipulated. Therefore, when he wanted to carry out his heinous slaughter, Xu Jiajin, consumed by reactionary pornography, only dared to target female students, while he dared not touch the ruling class that oppressed him. His knife is not aimed at the oppressors but at the oppressed. “The brave, angry, draw the blade against the stronger; the cowardly, angry, draw the blade against the weaker” [5], and Xu Jiajin’s actions exactly show that he is just a coward who, even when raging for personal gain, fears and kneels before capitalist authority. Foolish liberals mock Xu Jiajin and others like him as “ultra-left” obsessed with “Communist revolution,” claiming his slaughter is some kind of communist “crime,” but they forget the famous maxim: “Judging a person is not based on their statements, but on their actions; not based on how they claim to be, but on what they do and what kind of person they truly are.” [6] Eager to conspire, slaughter the masses, kowtow to the bourgeoisie, and show hostility to innocent people—this is not “ultra-left,” but a thorough bourgeois “ultra-right,” a true lackey of capitalism. No one supports capitalism more than such people, supports the so-called “freedom” and “democracy” of liberals, and first demands their own “freedom” and “democracy.” Even more shameful, all this is done in the name of “people,” “workers,” and “proletariat,” which is a huge insult to communism! Marx’s evaluation of Thiers, the counterrevolutionary executioner who ordered the bloody suppression of the Paris Commune, also applies to the despicable executioner Xu Jiajin: “He only has class prejudice but no thought; only vanity but no conscience; his private life and social career are equally vile.” [7] Xu Jiajin claims he wants “history to judge” him, but the conclusion history will give can only be that he, a cowardly murderer who fears the strong and is cowardly and heartless, will be forever stigmatized in history’s shameful column.
Where does Xu Jiajin’s hypocritical “fake revolution, true anti-communism” ideology come from? Undoubtedly, words like “worker,” “proletariat,” “long live the people” are not suddenly born in Xu Jiajin’s mind. This entire set of rhetoric is actually learned from the Chinese left circle, which is even more rotten than a pigsty.
Although the Chinese left circle always superficially wears the guise of “revolution” and “leftism,” it is actually just a “reactionary nest of anti-Xu” [8]. They boast of being “leftists” and claim to want “revolution,” but they have no revolutionary smell at all. They “deny ideological struggle, like to create ‘harmony,’ call everyone comrades, use ‘freedom of speech’ to gather various factions, have no central ideology, no Marxist authority… like to gather in the ‘Petrdoli Club’ to share low-level interests, and only because they share vulgar hobbies… The reason they propose the ‘Left Circle Unity’ is nothing but to maintain their facade of Marxism while indulging in vulgar interests.” [9]
Those who indulge in reactionary, vulgar, violent, pornographic, and murderous capitalist art and culture—such as violent games, anime, manga—how can they oppose capitalism? In the generally corrupt left circle, it has become commonplace to treat women as objects for their vulgar desires, and to regard the working people as mere ornaments to showcase their “progressiveness.” They talk about “long live the people,” lament their inability to enjoy wealth under the rule of the Zhongxiu regime, and discuss reactionary low-grade games, animations, and comics, occasionally sending explicit images and pornographic pictures, attracting the gaze of many leftists… They see only themselves and their narrow, filthy personal interests, not the people. Their desire to infiltrate “revolution” is just because they are in a bankrupt or near-bankrupt petty bourgeois position under the rule of the Zhongxiu regime. Most are petty bourgeois students who cannot succeed in academic pursuits or children from bourgeois families struggling to maintain their “small assets.” They do not hate capitalism; they hate that capitalism allows only themselves to act arbitrarily. They harbor personal ambitions and scheme in secret for their so-called “revolution,” just like the old traitor Song Jiang a thousand years ago—“If you want to be an official, kill, set fires, and accept amnesty.” For them, “revolution” is just a game, a means to “gradually make a fortune.”
In fact, the prevalent ideology in the left circle is anarchism because anarchism “is a disguised bourgeois individualism,” “individualism is the foundation of anarchist worldview,” “a product of despair,” “a mental state of abnormal intellectuals or hooligans.” [10]
It advocates “absolute freedom” for individuals, promotes the fallacious “anti-authority” doctrine, and claims that individuals can do whatever they want to satisfy their personal interests, under the guise of “personal liberation.” This perfectly suits the needs of bankrupt petty bourgeoisie, but the anarchism in the left circle is just anarchism dressed in revolutionary clothing. Leftist elements like Xu Jiajin, who indulge in all kinds of reactionary left platforms and porn groups on Telegram, have become shameless hooligans and perverts, forming this entire leftist anarchist worldview. They chat and brag in the left circle, pretending to be “revolutionaries,” while secretly engaging in filthy deeds. When oppressed by capitalism, they vent their personal desires through the most vicious means. Xu Jiajin is just a microcosm of the left circle—an entire group that claims to be revolutionary but engages in the most despicable conspiracies. If someday they fall into the same situation as Xu Jiajin or are bought by the Zhongxiu regime to become its pawns, they will undoubtedly cause great damage to the revolutionary movement for their petty personal gains. They are basically “opportunists who ‘advocate revolution when out of power but plunge into bloodshed once in power’” [11]. They praise Xu Jiajin and lament his “misfortune” only because they share the same ambitions and harbor fears and hatred toward the proletariat about to fall into poverty. The fundamental contradiction between capitalist and communist ideas lies in individualism versus collectivism. The petty bourgeois worldview is based on bourgeois individualism, which, without transformation, cannot spontaneously tend toward communism. Although these petty bourgeois rightists like to use Marxist phrases and speak of revolution, they lack the most precious selfless spirit in Marxism. They have no self-sacrifice, only selfishness, and naturally, they will feel “the rabbit dies, the fox mourns” when Xu Jiajin encounters misfortune.
Reactionary leftists, after Xu Jiajin’s incident, openly posted reactionary tabloids on the streets, claiming to imitate Xu Jiajin’s crimes of slaughtering the masses, calling themselves “Chinese revolutionaries,” “Guangzhou social revolutionaries,” “1116 Action Team,” attempting to incite anti-mass slaughter reactionary public opinion. They shamelessly flatter the liberals, regard anti-communist, anti-people liberals as “comrades,” and hypocritically say, “We want more overseas and domestic democratic figures to see our voice,” forming a heinous reactionary alliance with anti-communist liberals.
Below is one of the most explicit reactionary tabloids:
“People of China, our compatriots!”
Yesterday’s events drew everyone’s attention. In Wuxi, eight teenage girl students were murdered. They were not killed by inherently evil cruelty, nor by the so-called social enemies of the government, nor by foreigners, but by a classmate who had suffered with them for many years. His name is Xu Jiajin.
Our classmate Xu Jiajin was shamelessly deceived by the school into going to a factory for internship work, but in reality, he was doing the most miserable and painful work. Black intermediaries and the school conspired to send him into illegal factories, working ten or more hours a day without receiving corresponding wages. Even the best young men are driven mad by the greed of these capitalists! That’s why he chose to brutally kill those who suffered with him. Is it because he was inherently murderous? If society gave people a way out, why would they kill? This society, this government, the collusion of capitalists and officials, all guide him onto the path of murder. It’s now very clear. We have long been in an era where capitalists and the government collude to oppress us, the people. They are mass-producing despairing killers. In his farewell letter, Xu Jiajin’s comrade wrote that the factory maliciously delayed his wages, refused to buy insurance for him, refused to pay overtime, fined him, and refused compensation. Factory workers cycle between life and death in two or three shifts, working 16 hours a day, with not a single day off in a month. Isn’t everyone here in the same situation now? We, who do odd jobs, can’t find work; those who go to factories are deceived by black intermediaries. Ask, which intermediary isn’t black? Which capitalist isn’t black? The so-called labor laws are just nonsense, merely legal pretexts for exploitation. Labor intermediaries are even more heartless, but workers seeking jobs cannot leave the labor intermediaries because the system is protected by law. Intermediaries operate this way, and neither the capitalists nor the government need to be responsible for our lives and deaths. That’s why killings happen. To the government and capitalists, workers are just labor power that can be bought with a little money. Now the Chinese people should understand: the entire society, this so-called socialist primary stage, is actually a capitalist society. It’s rotten from top to bottom, all working against us, the people. The Communist Party’s officials all help the capitalists; as long as they are above us, we will forever suffer and be slaughtered in this society. Using this tragic event, we believe the best way to commemorate the eight victims is to overthrow this system that indirectly caused their deaths! Today, we are standing up, speaking out, no longer being represented by others!
We want to say the same as Xu Jiajin:
Long live victory, long live the people, long live the workers, long live the proletariat!
Overthrow the capitalists protected by the Communist Party! Overthrow capitalism!
Workers, students, and people across the country, take action, spread these heartfelt words of the Chinese people, let everyone see that Chinese workers are not weak and easy to bully, and they do not want to be the next killers!
We are here to change the world!
Chinese revolutionaries
The following is flattery sent by reactionary leftist elements to the notorious liberal “Yesterday,” which was reposted on the X platform. This is concrete evidence of their collusion with anti-communist liberals:
“A student submission signed ‘Social Revolutionaries of Guangzhou’: ‘Hello everyone, comrades of the ‘Yesterday’ channel. We are vocational school students in Guangzhou. We have always been concerned about domestic group incidents, and we know that society is now a huge pressure cooker under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. We, the secondary vocational students, are at the bottom of the bottom, on the margins of the margins, the consumables of society, the fuel of factories, and the ‘subjects’ of the CCP, suffering immensely. Last Saturday, we heard about the Jiangsu murder case. At first, we were happy and excited, but later we were even more shocked and developed greater hatred for the Communist Party. This regime, under the name of communism, has deprived our people, but in fact, it is accumulating for its bureaucrats. Now it is pushing forward bureaucratic capitalism. Comrades, we must rise up and resist. Although we are secondary vocational students, soon we will go into factories. Our senior students say the environment is similar to Jiangsu, not to mention the sweatshops in the Pearl River Delta, which are a global human rights scandal. We are your loyal followers on Twitter and fans of Teacher Li. Seeing the nationwide strikes and protests these days, and hearing that someone spoke up for us and distributed flyers last week, we are very encouraged. We decide not to be the next killers, nor slaves of the government. So, our classmates organized in the dorms, writing flyers by hand and distributing them, handing out materials and blank sheets of paper. Everyone’s emotions are boiling over. We hope you can report this on your Twitter to inspire more people. Let’s all join together to overthrow the Communist Party and build a new life!!!”
Guangzhou Social Revolutionaries
Our writing skills are poor, hope you understand our meaning. Thanks to all anti-communist comrades.”
“A Chongqing high school student signed ‘1116 Action Team’: Encouraged by the protests of Guangzhou vocational students and workers’ flyers yesterday, Chongqing high school students also organized to distribute flyers. The pictures are from the preparation stage and the scene of posting flyers in the blind spots of the dormitory surveillance.”
Regarding the questions raised by previous pioneers in the comment section, we want to say:
1. Handwritten flyers do not leave transmission data on printers, ensuring safety. Handwriting recognition will not be scanned on a large scale; with left-handed writing and multiple people copying, it can ensure non-traceability.
2. Why not organize a white paper rally? We believe that in the current semi-enclosed environment of schools, distributing flyers and small group propaganda are more effective than rallies. We hope everyone underestimates our momentum.
3. We hope everyone does not let us become isolated warriors. I want to see more messages of people standing up here.
Success does not depend on me; speaking out is definitely my duty. We are not afraid of threats from enemies. We want more overseas and domestic democratic figures to see our voices. For the eight fallen compatriots and the killers who have been tortured to death, and for the liberation of our fellow countrymen from now on.
(Hope friends from the Yesterday channel, if willing, please help us share this too)”
However, although most of the leftist circle consists of morally corrupt petty bourgeois rightists, there are still many who are manipulated, not deeply poisoned within the left circle, and have the possibility of transformation. For them, besides criticism, they should also be given a way out. It should be pointed out that if they do not want to follow Xu Jiajin’s petty bourgeois rightist path, they must seriously transform their bourgeois worldview, proletarianize themselves, and become true Marxists.
“Petty bourgeoisie must transform itself to become a useful class for revolution; for the petty bourgeoisie to become a revolutionary class, they must free themselves from moral decay.” The Chinese petty bourgeoisie, although long influenced by bourgeois ideas and facing various problems, is ultimately a class that can be transformed. For students among the petty bourgeoisie, the situation is the same.
“Students are the younger generation. Despite being influenced by bourgeois education, spiritual opium, and low-level tastes, their thinking is still less stubborn than those who have soaked in selfishness their whole lives. Their worldview is still developing and growing, with room for revolutionary transformation. With perseverance and determination, enduring long and painful ideological reform, and stripping away the rotten bourgeois culture from their minds, China’s young students still have great potential.”
It must be pointed out that even individual acts of terror fall into two different natures: one opposed to the criminal acts of slaughtering the masses like Xu Jiajin, and another targeting members of the ruling class with personal attacks. As early as the late 1980s, there were folk legends like “Hulan Hero,” which reflected the simple wish of the working people for punishment of corrupt police who do evil. Later, with the deepening class contradictions in China, incidents of workers being owed wages and killing capitalists, farmers seizing land and killing rich farmers or village officials, have become frequent, illustrating the serious discontent of Chinese workers with the corrupt rule. However, the Peaceful Sun and others slander and belittle the masses, claiming that anger “concentrates on the ruling class, unless you are a vanguard, it’s impossible,” even arrogantly asking, “How many common people have that class consciousness?” Unlike the long parasitic life of the petty bourgeoisie, the workers who have labored for years have developed excellent qualities such as hard work, willingness to sacrifice, and fearlessness of violence. They are the real “brave ones” who dare to “draw the blade against the stronger.” Facts have given a loud slap to the Peaceful Sun clowns! In this regard, compared to Xu Jiajin and others, they are the true tragedy.
But it must be pointed out that Marxists, while sympathizing with this forced spontaneous resistance, do not endorse any personal acts of terror. Marxism believes that in a class society, any individual is “only personified within the economic realm, bearing certain class relations and interests”. People do not act in a vacuum but represent a certain class, acting for the interests of that class. Conversely, any individual is merely a bearer of social relations of a certain class. The brutal exploitation and oppression by capitalists are not due to some super-class “human nature” that wants to exploit and oppress others, but because history has developed to the stage of capitalism, requiring such people to uphold the capitalist production relations and serve as personified capital to govern society. Therefore, the reactionary acts of capitalists are not just a loss of conscience on their part, but indicate that the entire bourgeoisie they represent is fundamentally anti-people and reactionary. Killing a capitalist alone will not eliminate capitalist exploitation; others will immediately fill the gap and become new exploiters. Moreover, if one relies solely on personal bravery to attack capitalists without paying attention to unity and organization, such lone wolf actions will only drain the proletariat’s strength, burying workers aware of capitalism’s reactionary nature under the more organized and conscious bloody repression of the bourgeoisie. “Slaves seek liberation generation after generation, war drums sound year after year from all directions. Only because the journey is distant and directionless, how many heroes of rebellion, with angry eyes and lofty ambitions, drink their bitter tears in vain!”
Such tragedies have been repeated many times in China. All those truly committed to revolution should learn from these lessons and prevent such tragedies from recurring again and again.
In summary, for all social classes genuinely demanding to overthrow capitalism, the only way out is to unite around the proletariat led by the Communist Party, forming a united front for socialist revolution to overthrow capitalism. In this united front, an important issue is educating the petty bourgeoisie. The petty bourgeoisie is a wavering class; they sometimes show extreme fanaticism, expressing intense hatred and dissatisfaction with capitalism, but at other times they bow their heads, indulge in old capitalist culture, old ideas, and old systems, unwilling to completely abandon their personal interests, wavering in revolution, and even turning against the revolution to support the bourgeoisie.
“They are not revolutionary but conservative. Moreover, they are even reactionary because they try to turn the wheels of history backward. If they are revolutionary, it means they defend not their current interests but their future interests—that is, they abandon their original views and accept the views of the proletariat.”
The attitude of the Communist Party towards the petty bourgeoisie is twofold: it must “make concessions to those inclined towards the proletariat, and at different times, make different concessions to different elements according to their degree of inclination towards the proletariat; at the same time, struggle against those inclined towards the bourgeoisie.” It should guide them, especially those dissatisfied with capitalism, to join the proletarian revolutionary ranks and transform themselves within the revolutionary movement. At the same time, distinctions should be made between party members and non-party petty bourgeoisie. For non-party petty bourgeoisie comrades, the Communist Party can, without violating principles, allow them to retain some liberalism in exchange for their support for the revolution, while constantly educating them on class. For party petty bourgeoisie, they should be transformed according to the standards of Communist Party members, using collective discipline to curb their individualism and liberalism, and employing Marxist theory to enable them to undergo ideological struggle, proletarianize within the petty bourgeoisie, and become Marxists capable of making outstanding contributions to the revolution. Overall, the Communist Party’s strategy for dealing with the petty bourgeoisie is “independent and autonomous within the united front, both united and independent.” Based on their attitude towards the Party, their attitude towards them is decided, making the petty bourgeoisie subordinate to the proletariat, not the other way around. Only in this way can the proletariat unite the broad masses of workers and form a huge force capable of overthrowing the capitalist system.
And for those stubborn reactionaries like Xu Jiajin who resist to the end, they should be fought against. Their reasoning is futile because their souls have been thoroughly corrupted by bourgeois ideas. They cling desperately to their personal interests and refuse to let go, even fighting the Party and the people to the end. Mao Zedong said, “To die for the interests of the people is heavier than Mount Tai; to sell out to fascists and die for those who exploit and oppress the people is lighter than a feather.” For them, “we must be as ruthless as winter”, fighting them to the death before they are eliminated. “Remember, those who will eat people in the future cannot live in this world.” If the leftist circles insist on being enemies of the people, destroying the revolution for personal gain, and becoming extreme individualists like Xu Jiajin who slaughter the people, then no matter what society they are in, the only path before them is destruction.
We will not forgive any shameless scoundrels standing on the side of the petty bourgeois fascists, selling out for fascism!
“Sweep away all pests and invaders!”
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The Left Circle (juàn): “Leftist circles,” is a place where people who loudly proclaim Marxism but are actually immersed in bourgeois pleasures, the so-called “Leftists,” mingle. These two terms are generally pejorative. These words fundamentally blur class boundaries and the line between Marxism and opportunism. Only those who are unlearned, low-minded, and shameless would call themselves “Leftists.” ↑
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Marx and Engels: 《The German Ideology》, 《Marx & Engels Collected Works》 Vol. 3, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1960. ↑
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Lenin: 《Left-Wing》Childish Disease in the Communist Movement, 《Collected Works of Lenin》 Vol. 31, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1958. ↑
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In Xu Jiajin's “Last Will,” the description of other workers is only that they have suffered from “ruthless exploitation and oppression,” while Xu Jiajin’s anger over not receiving his graduation certificate is expressed as “The school maliciously withholds my graduation certificate, refuses to let me graduate. Most people cheat on exams, and the school refuses to give me a certificate because I didn’t pass the exam. You all bully me too much. Everyone is bullying me. Don’t think I am honest. Some accounts must be settled. I will fight with my life. I will thoroughly wash away my shame. I want to expose this matter,” which, according to Xu Jiajin’s phone, spans ten lines, and this is only a direct description of not receiving the graduation certificate. In fact, the entire text indirectly revolves around Xu Jiajin’s core interest being damaged. ↑
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Lu Xun: 《Hua Gai Ji · Miscellaneous Essays》, 《Lu Xun Complete Works》 Vol. 3, People's Literature Publishing House, 1973. ↑
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Engels: 《Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany》, 《Marx & Engels Collected Works》 Vol. 8, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1961. ↑
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Marx: 《The Civil War in France》, 《Marx & Engels Collected Works》 Vol. 17, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1963. ↑
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This refers to anarchism, Trotskyism, Western Marxism, and revisionism, collectively called “Anto-Xiuxiu.” ↑
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Fenghuo Flame: 《The Road of China's Future Revolution》 Second Edition, Draft 3. ↑
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Lenin: 《Anarchism and Socialism》, 《Collected Works of Lenin》 Vol. 5, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1959. ↑
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Marx: 《The Civil War in France》, 《Marx & Engels Collected Works》 Vol. 17, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1963. ↑
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Fenghuo Flame: 《The Road of China's Future Revolution》 Second Edition, Draft 3. ↑
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Same as above. ↑
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The “Hulan Hero” is a folk legend that has been circulating in Chinese society since the late 1980s. Legend has it that between 1986 and 1987, there was a mysterious murderer in Hulan, Northeast China. He did not kill ordinary people but targeted police and their families, committing multiple crimes and killing entire police families. The local people regarded him as a hero, calling him “Hulan Hero,” and created a folk song: “Hulan Hero, wandering the world, eradicating harm for the people, killing police only.” It is said that reactionary bourgeois governments were greatly alarmed by this, and in a fit of rage, they deployed a large number of police to investigate and arrest the Hulan Hero, but no clues to his true identity were found, and the case remains unsolved. Many legends about the Hulan Hero are fictional, but his image originates from the spontaneous resistance activities of Chinese workers against corrupt and evil police at that time, reflecting the naive hope of Chinese workers who, after the bourgeois restoration of capitalism, suffered brutal exploitation and oppression, and longed for a hero who could oppose the bourgeois fascist dictatorship. ↑
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