To people who tend dismissively shift the blame for ills befalling on China on the CPC. I want to say, please read some history books. Your rightist "liberals" of nineteen-thirties played a farce. They share as much blame, if not more.
I long wanted to write about the last days of the Beijing government in thirties, and not in its defence. I want to give a lesson to anybody wanting to rehabilitate that bunch, moreover repeat their mistakes.
This is to people who rave in this topic: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/china-and-democracy.670304, and who played 14 pages of mindgames, and farce in the "alternative history" topic in January.
Let's go.
People say CPC destroyed democracy in China, but those forgot that there was no functioning popularly elected parliament in China for more than a decade by the time PLA seized Beijing.
Who you think destroyed the original Chinese republic? It was your rightist uncle Jiang, who seized the reign over Beijing government under a gunpoint. By the time PLA marched into BJ, nationalist government there was already in a defunct state. And even before Jiang's takeover, it wasn't doing much better either.
The original Guomindang has died when Jiang destroyed the Canton Soviet, and Shanghai Commune in 1926-1928. It shattered the popular wing, and tore GMD onto right, and left, giving Jiang a free reign amid the confrontation he created.
By 1930, Jiang has purged GMD of all popular factions, and from that time on it was just him, the green gang, and plain criminals, with last few vestiges of popular rightist factions who were such jokes that they weren't even worth purging for Jiang.
People like that had no mandate to form the popular government to begin with. Try disapproving this argument if you dare. There was no more legitimacy to the kleptogangs who ran Beijing national assembly at the time than in some Bantustan parliament.
The rest of GMD popular wing has split into 10+ factions, and mostly perished. Some lived to this day in America and they keep sending letters with curses to GMD in Taiwan on every double ten.
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Now think, you think the people who tell that heavenly manna will fall upon us the moment they will hold a popular election never read history books? No, they did, and I bet they have this exactly in mind.
If those guys stage some putsch in the Party, and run popular elections overnight, they may well claim a nominally "democratic" rule. Would it be a genuine popular regime? Hell no.
People who conspire with rightist element in the Party with hopes of them bringing back any semblance of the late republican rule in any shape or form, and thinking anything good coming out of it, can't be making a bigger mistake.
There are hundreds of wannabe uncle Jiangs now coming to prominence in the Party, waiting for such gullible people to hand them the country.
If China is to embrace a popular rule, we are more likely to come to it with just anybody, but not the current wave of those petty rightists.
Believing those people who claim they can make a functioning, popular government in China overnight if you hand them the power, is no different from giving your money to people claiming triple digit interest in some scam financial scheme. Freedom, dignity, and money, all come through hard work, no magic trick for that. Anybody claiming otherwise is a plain fraud.
I long wanted to write about the last days of the Beijing government in thirties, and not in its defence. I want to give a lesson to anybody wanting to rehabilitate that bunch, moreover repeat their mistakes.
This is to people who rave in this topic: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/china-and-democracy.670304, and who played 14 pages of mindgames, and farce in the "alternative history" topic in January.
Let's go.
People say CPC destroyed democracy in China, but those forgot that there was no functioning popularly elected parliament in China for more than a decade by the time PLA seized Beijing.
Who you think destroyed the original Chinese republic? It was your rightist uncle Jiang, who seized the reign over Beijing government under a gunpoint. By the time PLA marched into BJ, nationalist government there was already in a defunct state. And even before Jiang's takeover, it wasn't doing much better either.
The original Guomindang has died when Jiang destroyed the Canton Soviet, and Shanghai Commune in 1926-1928. It shattered the popular wing, and tore GMD onto right, and left, giving Jiang a free reign amid the confrontation he created.
By 1930, Jiang has purged GMD of all popular factions, and from that time on it was just him, the green gang, and plain criminals, with last few vestiges of popular rightist factions who were such jokes that they weren't even worth purging for Jiang.
People like that had no mandate to form the popular government to begin with. Try disapproving this argument if you dare. There was no more legitimacy to the kleptogangs who ran Beijing national assembly at the time than in some Bantustan parliament.
The rest of GMD popular wing has split into 10+ factions, and mostly perished. Some lived to this day in America and they keep sending letters with curses to GMD in Taiwan on every double ten.
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Now think, you think the people who tell that heavenly manna will fall upon us the moment they will hold a popular election never read history books? No, they did, and I bet they have this exactly in mind.
If those guys stage some putsch in the Party, and run popular elections overnight, they may well claim a nominally "democratic" rule. Would it be a genuine popular regime? Hell no.
People who conspire with rightist element in the Party with hopes of them bringing back any semblance of the late republican rule in any shape or form, and thinking anything good coming out of it, can't be making a bigger mistake.
There are hundreds of wannabe uncle Jiangs now coming to prominence in the Party, waiting for such gullible people to hand them the country.
If China is to embrace a popular rule, we are more likely to come to it with just anybody, but not the current wave of those petty rightists.
Believing those people who claim they can make a functioning, popular government in China overnight if you hand them the power, is no different from giving your money to people claiming triple digit interest in some scam financial scheme. Freedom, dignity, and money, all come through hard work, no magic trick for that. Anybody claiming otherwise is a plain fraud.
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