The Masses Must Build International Communism
China’s new “Ethnic Unity Progress Law” is not just about culture or government rules. It is part of a bigger plan by Chinese government to help people feel more united as a country. It’s meant to keep things calm and ensure the Communist Party stays in control. This is especially important now because China’s rulers face problems both internally and externally.
The propaganda about the new law talks a lot about ideas like “shared blood” and “shared destiny.” These are meant to make people feel more connected as one nation. The goal is to merge culture, ethnicity, the government, and the Communist Party into one idea. This way, China is not described just as a country created by history. Instead, as a civilization that has lasted for thousands of years and cannot be divided.
This changes political questions into moral ones. When the government says it represents the whole civilization and the future of the nation, disagreeing with the Party is not just seen as a political problem, but as going against national unity. Questions about ethnic groups, local independence, or how history is told are no longer open for discussion. Instead, they are seen as loyalty tests.
The Chinese Communist Party has changed a lot from when it began. In the past, it focused on class struggle and internationalism. Now, the Party talks more about nationalism, pride in Chinese civilization, and loyalty to the country. Instead of using communism to push for big changes, the Party now pushes national unity and centralized political authority.
The situation in China today is a bit like what happened in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s before World War II. Back then, the Soviet government used nationalism and patriotic stories along with communist ideas to get people ready for the big conflict. They brought back old heroes, increased patriotic messages, and made loyalty to the country the same as loyalty to the Communist Party. The main goal was not just to make people proud of their culture, but to bring internal unity during a dangerous time in world politics.
But the situation is different now. There is a strong raging rivalry between the US and its allies (NATO) and Russia and China. This rivalry stretches from Asia (Taiwan) to Eastern Europe (Ukraine), Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo), the Americas (Venezuela, Cuba), and the Middle East (Gaza, Lebanon, Iran). This is the context of the Chinese rulers’ Ethnic Unity Progress Law.
This law shows that China is trying to make its government seem more legitimate by using nationalism, history, and pride in its civilization. It is also meant to get the Chinese masses to support the country in a bigger war. The law tries to make the masses feel like they all “share blood” and “share destiny” so they will want to defend their “motherland.”
The masses in China, as in other countries, do not have anything in common with the people in power. It does not matter if the leaders are from a so-called communist party, a religious party, or any other bourgeois capitalist party. The masses do not share “blood” or “destiny” with any of their exploiters and warmakers.
Instead, the masses worldwide need to come together across borders and nations, across ethnic and religious lines, across “racial” and ancestral lines, to build the International Communist Workers’ Party. To mobilize for communism and create the necessary conditions for revolution to build a communist world, free of capitalist domination. A world where humanity will prosper by working together and by taking care of each other.