The Pseudo-Ideological Ballast of the CPC – A comment on Jiang Zemin’s 100th birthday

Jiang Zemin would have turned 100 on 17th August of this year when he wouldn’t have died already on 30th November 2022. Because he was enshrined as a classic of the CPC’s official ideology in 2002 with his three volumes of Selected Works published in 2006 his centenary is a date to look back on his deeds and “ideological merits”. Xi Jinping said on the centenary event for Jiang Zemin on 17th August 2026, with almost the exact same wording

The Prachanda Path leading nowhere – The failed successful Nepalese Revolution 20 years later

Between 1996 and 2006 the South Asian Himalaya country Nepal was stuck in a civil war between the Kingdom of Nepal and Maoist rebels led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) which in the end led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a federal republic. The tragedy lies in the fact that the CPN(M) failed despite being successful with its people´s war strategy in the civil war. This history should be studied to draw conclusions

Is “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” really just socialism?

Also available as a PDF. So called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is leading to confusion among many comrades. There is a harsh debate going on about it for many years already between revisionist apologists and Marxist-Leninist critics. Let us look into the facts. Xi Jinping claimed in January 2013 in a study session in front of the back then newly elected 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism and nothing else. The