On May 18, the Beijing-based Chinese Communist Party’s major foreign propaganda website, Dovetail, published an article in which Hu Xi Jinping denied that the Communist Party was reassessing the Cultural Revolution and referred back to an article published by Dovetail in April, in which he quoted the famous line from 1984 “Whoever has mastered the past has mastered the future; whoever has mastered the present has mastered the past”, which has aroused external attention. Apollo.com commentator Li Yucang analyzed the views of Hu Xijin and Dovetail.
In the article, Dovetail introduced that on the 18th, Hu Xijin posted on Weibo that he had never heard any information about the possibility of the Cultural Revolution being re-evaluated. Hu Xijin said that the tutorial textbook for the CPC’s history learning and education activities, “A Brief History of the Communist Party of China,” made a negative characterization of the Cultural Revolution, and several official and authoritative speakers for the Party’s history learning activities have recently mentioned the Cultural Revolution in a critical manner, which are consistent with the basic evaluation of the Cultural Revolution in the “Resolution on Several Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the Nation.
Hu Xijin added that “influential people should avoid issuing voices that might lead to different interpretations from the official attitude.”
The official overtones of Hu Xijin’s remarks are obvious.
After quoting some of Hu Xijin’s remarks, Dovetail first emphasizes that the new 2021 edition of A Brief History of the Communist Party of China (Party History) focuses on the history of the Party since the 18th National Congress, i.e., since the reign of Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the CPC, which accounts for about a quarter of the book.
Then, Dovetail takes advantage of the mouth of the Hong Kong media to express its own views. The Dovetail quoted Sing Tao Daily as reporting on April 12 that the new edition of the Party History downplays Mao’s mistakes, saying that he ” did not understand the laws of the construction and development of socialist society clearly, and that many correct ideas about socialist construction were not implemented due to the accumulated development of leftist mistakes in theory and practice, which eventually led to civil unrest. “
Dovetail then shines a light on its views with an article “Xi Jinping “reassesses” the Cultural Revolution” published on April 13. At the end of the article, Dovetail said, “Whoever has mastered the past has mastered the future; whoever has mastered the present has mastered the past,” and that rulers of all dynasties and generations are no exception, and there is no better way to make a name for themselves than to master the writing of history. “
The phrase “whoever has mastered the past, has mastered the future; whoever has mastered the present, has mastered the past” quoted here in Dovetail is from the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by the British writer George Orwell. .
According to Apollo.com commentator Li Yu-Meng, this article in Dovetail.com first lists Hu Xijin’s negative remarks, then uses Sing Tao Daily’s “downplaying Mao’s mistakes” as circumstantial evidence, and then borrows the famous line from Nineteen Eighty-Four to insinuate against Xi Jinping.
And the last sentence of the article reads, “There is no better way to make a name for oneself than to take control of writing history. Perhaps this is what Dovetail really wants to say, in light of the article’s title, “Xi Jinping “reassesses” the Cultural Revolution”. This is a big circle for Dovetail, which is based on Jiang Zemin’s faction.
According to Li Yumang, everyone will make his or her own judgment on whether or not the CCP will reevaluate the Cultural Revolution, and there is no need for the CCP’s propaganda system to influence it, regardless of which faction it belongs to. These factions all want to follow the CCP’s historical approach of directing social opinion, using it, and taking advantage of the masses. However, now that history has come to an end, people who have experienced countless CCP campaigns and have been fooled by the CCP countless times have long since seen this tactic of the CCP, and now more people are sitting back and watching the tiger fight, enjoying the fall of each “big tiger”. In the words of the people, no one is good. Both sides of the current CCP infighting (Xi and Jiang) have actually brought themselves into the Cultural Revolution for a preview. Those who wish to re-evaluate the Cultural Revolution are hoping to gain unprecedented power like the political powers-that-be in the Cultural Revolution, and to completely fuck over their opponents. Its political rival, Jiang Zemin’s faction, on the other hand, knows very well that if the Cultural Revolution were to begin today, its own side of the forces would be the target of a knockdown. In this regard, the opposition of Jiang Zemin’s faction (including Dovetail) to re-evaluate the Cultural Revolution is completely different from the deep concern of countless educated people about the future of the Chinese nation. They just want to take advantage of it.
According to Li Yu-Mang, the root cause of the unprecedented devastation of the Chinese nation caused by the Cultural Revolution is the CCP’s ideology, which is no different from that of a cult (this can be clearly seen from countless historical documents that show the cult-like madness of the people at that time). The only way to completely avoid a repeat of the Cultural Revolution is to completely abandon the ideology of the CCP.
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