SOS Chapter 32

The Evil Communist Theory Opposes Traditional Culture

The �philosophy� of the Communist Party completely contradicts the authentic traditional Chinese culture. Traditional culture respects the mandate of heaven, as Confucius once said, �Life and death are predestined, and wealth and rank are determined by heaven.� [20] Both Buddhism and Taoism are forms of theism, and believe in the reincarnation cycle of life and death, and the karmic causality of good and evil. The Communist Party, on the contrary, not only believes in atheism, but also runs wild in defying the Tao and assaulting heavenly principles. Confucianism values family, but the Communist Manifesto clearly promulgates abolition of the family. Traditional culture differentiates the Chinese from the foreign, but the Communist Manifesto advocates the end of nationality. Confucian culture promotes kindness to others, but the Communist Party encourages class struggle. Confucians encourage loyalty to the monarch and love for the nation. The Communist Manifesto promotes the elimination of nations.

To gain and maintain power in China, the Communist Party first had to plant its immoral thoughts on Chinese soil. Mao Zedong claimed, �If we want to overthrow an authority, we must first make propaganda, and do work in the area of ideology.�[21] The CCP realized that the violent communist theory, which is sustained with arms, is the refuse of Western thoughts and could not stand up to China�s profound 5,000-year cultural history. �In for a penny, in for a pound.� The CCP then completely destroyed traditional Chinese culture, so that Marxism and Leninism could take China�s political stage.

Traditional Culture Is an Obstacle to the CCP�s Dictatorship

Mao Zedong once said, fittingly, that he follows neither the Tao nor heaven. [22] Traditional Chinese culture undoubtedly served as a huge obstacle for the CCP�s defying the Tao and contending with heaven.

Loyalty in traditional Chinese culture does not mean blind devotion. In the eyes of the people, the emperor is a �son of heaven��with heaven above him. The emperor cannot be correct at all times. Therefore there was a need for observers to point out the emperor�s mistakes all the time. The Chinese chronicle system had historians record all the words and deeds of the emperor. Scholastic officials could become teachers for their sage kings, and the behavior of the emperor was judged by the Confucian classics. If the emperor was immoral�unenlightened to the Tao, people might rise up to overthrow him, as was the case when Chengtang attacked Jie, or in King Wu�s removal of Zhou. [23] These uprisings, judged from traditional culture, were not considered violations of loyalty or the Tao. Instead, they were seen as enforcing the Tao on behalf of heaven. When Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283 AD) [24], a well-known military commander in the Song Dynasty, was taken prisoner, he refused to surrender to the Mongolian invaders even when the Emperor tried to persuade him to surrender. This was because, as a Confucian, he believed that �The people are of supreme importance; the nation comes next; last comes the ruler.� [25]

The dictatorial CCP could by no means accept traditional beliefs such as these. The CCP wanted to canonize its own leaders and promote a cult of personality, and so would not allow such long-held concepts such as heaven, Tao, and God to govern from above. The CCP was aware that what it did was considered the most heinous and enormous crime against heaven and the Tao if measured by the standards of traditional culture. They were aware that as long as the traditional culture existed, people would not praise the CCP as �great, glorious, and correct.� Scholars would continue the tradition of �risking their lives to admonish the monarch,� �maintaining justice at the expense of their lives,� [26] and place the people above the rulers. Thus, the people would not become CCP puppets, and the CCP could not force conformity on the thoughts of the masses.

The traditional culture�s respect for heaven, the earth and nature became an obstacle for the CCP�s �battle with nature� in an effort to �alter heaven and the earth.� Traditional culture treasures human life, teaching that �any situation involving human life has to be treated with the utmost care.� Such a perception was a hindrance to the CCP�s mass genocide and rule by terror. The traditional culture�s ultimate moral standard of the �heavenly Tao� interfered with the CCP�s manipulation of moral principles. For these reasons, the CCP made traditional culture an enemy in an effort to bolster its own control.