Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on July 1, 2021. - Wang Zhao/AFP/AFP/TNS
The founding of the Chinese Communist Party was July 23, 1921, aided by Russian Bolshevik agents, but Mao would later set the date as July 1 — and so, like everything the Politburo decrees, that became the reality. The revolutionary vanguard party celebrating its centennial is as dictatorial as always, to the peril of the Chinese people and the world beyond. The fanciful ideal of communal ownership of the means of production and other such Marxist claptrap was dumped decades ago as China moved to cutthroat capitalism, with billionaires like Jack Ma among the 95 million card-carrying party memb...
