thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 29
th, 2022 at 1:59pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jun 28
th, 2022 at 2:56pm:
The CCP has been full of gangsters since it was founded.
Nonsense.
"Chen Duxiu (Chinese: 陳獨秀; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Tu-hsiu; 8 October 1879 – 27 May 1942) was a
Chinese revolutionary socialist, educator, philosopher and author, who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with Li Dazhao in 1921. From 1921 to 1927, he served as the Communist Party's first General Secretary".
Mao was a psychopath and a killer, who learned to hone his disorders from Stalin's example, as anyone who knew him would admit. Even the young Xi was very lucky to have evaded Mao's gangsters during the cultural revolution.
Mao, as with Stalin before him, specifically chose and promoted those from the so-called lumpenproletariat who were capable of any atrocity without remorse; he rewarded the most merciless with money, power and access to village girls to rape.
Also like Stalin before him, Mao ultimately became paranoid of the gangsters who surrounded him and, with an induced famine under his belt, perpetrated a Stalinist purge on steroids (the cultural revolution) to rid himself of them.
The Deng era brought the distraction from CCP gangsterism by promoting get-rich-quick schemes but, without rule of law, no independent audit process, nor independent judiciary and ultimately no independent media, China descended into another hellstorm from which it has not emerged.
Xi has abused state power in his so-called corruption purge by only targeting his political enemies while turning a blind eye to those in the Xi faction.
There should be no surprises with this.
The CCP is the Mafia with a country.
It is unreformable and will always be, like the Mafia, run by a mob of gangsters.