Monday, April 25, 2011

Immersed in the virtual world of neo-Maoist China

Beijing correspondent - The tension of the authoritarian Chinese regime is accompanied by a resurgence of nationalist movements, often neo-Maoists. If there for several years while a current of thought represented by intellectuals called the New Left, is on the Internet that are expressed tendencies the most virulent of these often disparate movements.

These sites, which take some of défouloir are not sanctioned by the regime. They are most often available in China, unlike many sites yet harmless. Their members are less worried by the police than are the pro-democracy activists. Are they handled or manipulated by the security organs? Some clues suggest, as the appearance of a blog "anti-Ai Weiwei", March 27, a week before the arrest of artist by Chinese police on 3 April at the Beijing airport.

While minority, neo-Maoist line are indicative of a worrying trend: they are now targeting persons most liberal intellectual circles and the Web - perhaps galvanized by the official condemnation of propaganda against those who fall in the category of enemies of China, like Ai Weiwei, or Liu Xiaobo.

Thus the neo-Maoist jinbushehui site, which means "advanced society", appeared in 2010. The emblem of the movement is a panda in arms, before the Chinese flag. Apart from a poem by Mao encouraged to "eliminate all pests," reads a motto: "looking for the glorious moment that will come true regeneration of a great civilization." A concept that refers to the recovery of China after the "humiliation" of Western and Japanese invasions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and found frequently in the speeches of leaders and editorials in state media.

Organizers jinbushehui declined the interview request of the World. Following four headings. The first is devoted to Xinu, or "slaves of the West." There are key figures in the democratic movement (lawyers, journalists, intellectuals, writers ...), accused of playing into the West by their constant criticism of flaws in the Chinese system and social problems.

The pictures showed in November 2010 with a rope around his neck. The site, hosted in the United States, then released a version a little less aggressive: the faces are now surrounded by a red triangle. "The scaffold of the slaves of the West" has been renamed Xinuleaks, referring to Wikileaks.

The "slaves of the West" are categorized in the great tradition of the Maoist movement. The artist Ai Weiwei is one of the "traitors" with five stars, like the Nobel Peace Liu Xiaobo. The lawyer Xu Zhiyong, very committed to the petitioners, and columnist Hu Shuli, who runs the news website Caixin economic, known for its critical tone, are "executives".

Among the "little soldiers", one finds the lawyer Teng Biao. And in the "immature", the journalist and blogger Zhai Minglei. The writer and blogger Han Han is also qualified as a slave to the West. Like the website 163. com. Being investigated for alleged economic crimes, Ai Weiwei, is the latest bete noire jinbushehui.

An article signed "administrator" (in Chinese) criticizes the statements of Germany for his release. It encourages "tough Ai Weiwei, the waste of humanity." "Those who do leave are traitors" reads, below a photo of Hitler crossed-out red. The article denounced the "shameful diplomatic policy of the Communist Party of China bandit who sells abroad.

He concludes that "the regeneration of China, is to crush the white colonialists who have committed so many crimes ...." Site anti-Ai Weiwei place a litany of insults about the artist and his family. Premier Wen Jiabao, one of the few Chinese leaders to rule in favor of political reform, is not immune to criticism (in Chinese).

His last outing, April 14, the need for cadres to "tell the truth" (here in English), sounds for the administrator of jinbushehui as "the eternal refrain of Christianity and democracy." "The problems of corruption and food security that China is experiencing have nothing to do with the political regime: they were caused by the dollar criminal," he says, before explaining that the U.S.

printing paper currency at all-will and plunder the resources of China. "The moral decay in China is due to the penetration of Western values and Christianity in the dollar, which pushed the Chinese to move away from communist ideals and thought of Mao , "reads one. Openly Maoist Utopia site provides texts and works of the Great Helmsman, the user can buy online or at the bookstore of the same name, housed on the floors of a tower in Beijing.

According to Fan Jinggang, one of the leaders of Utopia, the site had received 300 million visitors in 2010, including "a large number of young born in the years 1980 and 1990." Among the recent "hot topics" discussed the current site, we found these days the article "black lawyers who fabricate false evidence" (in Chinese), on the trial of lawyer Li Zhuang, Chongqing.

This one is accused of inciting his client, a mobster, to make false confessions. But the trial in which guilt has been proved is supposedly riddled with irregularities, according to the liberals. The editors of Utopia do not care: they revile the lawyer. Other news for the move, April 22, the statue of Confucius Tiananmen Square, where it was inaugurated with great fanfare in early January 2011, is a cause for celebration for the site authors.

"The people can not be humiliated. The capital can not be transformed into a temple of Confucius. The right way is that he returns to his hometown," reads a poem (in Chinese). Another author regrets that "Confucius has been installed in Tiananmen Square in a posture of greeting to the major Western countries." Flag of Mao site shows him a photo of the statue of Confucius, which was drawn the character chai, which means "demolish".

Confucius had yet been gradually restored in recent years by the communist regime, lacking ideological markers. His killing off a surprise: the statue has become an inner courtyard of the National Museum of China. But in January, appeared in Tiananmen Square had been made permanent. Speculations abound: the eviction of the statue of the great philosopher is it a stroke of hardliners within the regime? Should we see an attack against Hu Jintao, champion of "harmony" authoritarian Confucian inspiration.

The nebula neo-Maoist also consists of at least two "parties" - which remain virtual, as it is banned in China to create a political party, even though it would be communist-inspired. The Communist Party of Maoism was created 26 December 2008, just weeks after the launch of the Charter 08 manifesto, pro-democracy that has won eleven years in prison to Liu Xiaobo.

Its organizers have issued a "letter to the Chinese people" and a charter, which they criticize, in a style reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, the reforms during the last thirty years. They want to be president Bo Xilai, the chief of Chongqing, whose methods and rhetoric are sometimes reminiscent of Mao - even if his family was a direct victim of the purges of the Great Helmsman.

Sign that the person is suspicious of this honor, about thirty members of the splinter group, however, have been arrested in Chongqing in October 2009, claiming they were "fomenting terror and because of the demagoguery." They were released but two of them. The Party (Communist) Workers would have it, was launched in 2005 by a Sino-American lawyer, Song Baoling.

The party describes itself as a party twin brother of the CCP, and claims of Maoism and Leninism. It claims to represent the voice and interests of laborers working or unemployed. If Counsel Ning said on his blog that he was contacted in January 2009 by members of the preparatory committee, which he estimates at about twenty people, including personalities from the Chinese left, to check how it was possible to record China a political party.

He said that there was no regulation which provided for this case. The first "national assembly" of the Party (Communist) Workers took place in Beijing July 23, 2009 (the same day that the CCP in 1921), the sound of the Internationale, attended by 56 representatives of 37 communist cells, representing 112,000 members (of which 72% are also members of the CCP).

You can find the official press release on a blog, whose author did not share ideas. The editors of the press release explained that they could not register, but it is also the case with the CCP ... Brice Pedroletti

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