SOS Chapter 36

III. The Party Culture

While the CCP was destroying the traditional semi-divine culture, it quietly established its own �Party culture� through continuous political movements. The Party culture has transformed the older generation, poisoned the younger generation and also had an impact on children. Its influence has been extremely deep and broad. Even when many people tried to expose the evilness of the CCP, they couldn�t help but adopt the ways of judging good and bad, the ways of analyzing, and the vocabulary developed by the CCP, which inevitably carry the imprint of the Party culture.

The Party culture not only inherited the essential wickedness of the foreign-born Marxist-Leninist culture, but also skillfully combined all the negative elements from thousands of years of Chinese culture with the violent revolution and philosophy of struggle from the Party�s propaganda. Those negative components include internal strife for power inside the royal family, forming cliques to pursue selfish interests, political trickery to make others suffer, dirty tactics and conspiracy. During the CCP�s struggle for survival in the past decades, its characteristic of �deceit, wickedness and violence� has been enriched, nurtured, and carried forward.

Despotism and dictatorship are the nature of the Party culture. This culture serves the Party in its political and class struggles. One may understand how it forms the Party�s �humanistic� environment of terror and despotism from four aspects.

The Aspect of Domination and Control

A. A Culture of Isolation

The culture of the communist party is an isolated monopoly with no freedom of thought, speech, association, or belief. The mechanism of the Party�s domination is similar to a hydraulic system, relying on high pressure and isolation to maintain its state of control. Even one tiny leak could cause the system to collapse. For example, the Party refused dialogue with the students during the June 4th student movement [80], fearing that if this leak spouted, the workers, peasants, intellectuals and the military would also request dialogue. Consequently, China would have eventually moved towards democracy and the one-party dictatorship would have been challenged. Therefore, they chose to commit murder rather than grant the students� request. Today the CCP employs tens of thousands of �cyber police� to monitor the internet and directly blocks any overseas websites that the CCP does not like.

B. A Culture of Terror

For the past 55 years, the CCP has been using terror to suppress the minds of Chinese people. They have wielded their whips and butcher�s knives�people never know when unforeseen disasters will befall them�to force the people to conform. The people, living in fear, became obedient. Advocates of democracy, independent thinkers, skeptics within the (CCP�s) system and members of various spiritual groups have become targets for killing as a way to warn the public. The party wants to nip any opposition in the bud.

C. A Culture of Network Control

The CCP�s control of society is all encompassing. There are a household registration system, a neighborhood residents� committee system, and various levels of party committee structure. �Party branches are established at the level of the company.� �Each and every single village has its own Party branch.� Party and Communist Youth League members have regular activities. The CCP also advocated a series of slogans accordingly. A few examples are: �Guard your own door and watch your own people.� �Stop your people from appealing.� �Resolutely implement the system to impose duties, guarantee fulfillment of duties, and ascertain where the responsibility lies. Guard and control strictly. Be serious about discipline and regulations and guarantee 24-hour preventive and maintenance control measures.� �The 610 Office [81] will form a surveillance committee to inspect and monitor activities in each region and work unit at irregular intervals.�

D. A Culture of Incrimination

The CCP completely neglected the principles of rule by law in modern society and vigorously promoted the policy of implication. It used its absolute power to punish relatives of those who were labeled �landlords,� �rich,� �reactionaries,� �bad elements,� and �rightists.� It proposed the �class origin� theory [82].

Today, the CCP will �affix the responsibility of the primary leaders and publicly reprimand them, if they fail in their leadership roles to take adequate measures to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to stir up trouble. For serious cases, disciplinary action will be taken.� �If one person practices Falun Gong, every family member will be laid off.� �If one employee practices Falun Gong, the bonus of every one in the whole company will be detained.� The CCP also issued discriminative policies that classified children into �ones that can be educated and transformed� or �five black classes" (landlords, rich farmers, reactionaries, bad elements, and rightists). The Party promoted complying with the Party and �placing righteousness above family loyalty.� Systems, such as the personnel and organizational archive system and temporary relocation system, were established to ensure implementation of its policies. People were encouraged to accuse and expose others, and rewarded for contributions to the Party.