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are allowed to operate. (In fact, the PLA is a partner in most of these pri-
vate companies, and they have generals on their boards).
This led some people to believe that China had finally begun to

break away from the teachings of Mao and develop a more democratic
mentality. Yet, when what has happened in China over the last 20 years
is examined from a broad perspective, all these so-called reforms and
revisions have actually produced a more deep-rooted communist sys-
tem.
In the same way that the collapse of the Soviet Union is thought of
as "The collapse of a faulty application of Marxism" by die-hard com-
munists, so Maoists in China and other parts of the world regard the
present social collapse in China as the result of "incorrect practice."
According to communist ideology, the ideal communist society has to
go through a number of stages. First is capitalism, followed by a transi-
tion to socialism, and then communism. The real reason for the current
capitalist picture in China is, therefore, an attempt to arrive at the ideal
communist society. China is doing all it can to keep that capitalist pic-

ture restricted to the economic field, and continues to be devoted to
Maoism in the political arena. For the transition to socialism, itself an
important step on the road to communism, to be possible, the country is
trying to revise the Communist Party to a socialist one.
Furthermore, China is today experiencing all aspects of the savage
capitalism that is regarded as necessary for the transition to socialism.
Inequality of income distribution, the ever increasing levels of unem-
ployment, the rich are growing richer (as the poor grow poorer) and the
moral collapse which came about as a result are intended to make the
populace think that "Mao's time was best." Yet, although Maoism is
portrayed as a viable alternative, it is really a regime of cruelty and sav-
agery that has the blood of millions of people on its hands. In other
words, people are going to find themselves out of the frying pan but in
the fire.

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan