CPC Congress- Full text of resolution on Party Constitution amendment-Xinhua

When I was in the Peace Corps in India 1967-1969 we had few news sources.  Mornings began with the short wave radio news broadcasts of America, India, Moscow, and  Peking.    Radio Moscow justified the invasion of Czechoslovakia.  And Radio Peking celebrated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" while denouncing the "Soviet Renegade Revisionist Clique.  The `GPCR' was later renounced as the work of the Gang of Four.

We heard VOA dissemble about the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the tragic murders of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy.  Then the reports of police attacking demonstrators at the Chicago Democratic Convention. It did not lead to a sense of American triumphalism.  Since then I have never engaged in American exceptionalism.

The Communist Party of China - the 共产党 - deserves to be recognized as history's most successful political party.  They have defeated the Japanese conquerors and transformed the country from a poor rural country to a modern urban, industrial powerhouse. At its 20th Congress the Party had no hesitation about heaping praise on itself. So far, so good.  

But as an organization that claims science and mass mobilization as its guiding methods it has a strange tendency to lionize its leaders.  And a failure to embrace the core Marxist insight that when opposites clash they produce the new.  That process demands freedom to contest leadership.

One would hope that a determined modesty would have followed the debacle of the Gang of Four.  That was the near overthrow of the Communist Party by Mao Tse Tung and his closest allies.   But today's celebration and exaltation of Xi Jinping points in the other direction.  His "thought" is to be embedded in the pantheon as declared in this resolution amending the Constitution of the Party (not the country).

-GWC

October 23, 2022

 

CPC Congress) Full text of resolution on Party Constitution amendment-Xinhua

中国共产党第二十次全国代表大会关于《中国共产党章程（修正案）》的决议

The Congress notes that since entering the new era, the Party and the country have faced a situation of unparalleled complexity, a fight of unparalleled graveness, and tasks of unparalleled difficulty in promoting reform, development, and stability. Establishing Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era has enabled the Party to successfully resolve the acute problems and challenges undermining its long-term governance, the security and stability of the country, and the wellbeing of the people, to remove serious hidden dangers in the Party, the country, and the military, and to ultimately set the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on an irreversible historical course. The establishment of both Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era represents a major political achievement for the Party in the new era and a decisive factor in the historic successes and changes in the cause of the Party and the country. All Party members must acquire a deep understanding of the decisive significance of this major achievement, more conscientiously uphold Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and uphold the Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and closely follow the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core in thinking, political stance, and action.

The Congress calls on Party organizations at all levels and all Party members to follow the firm leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party. They should become more conscious of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership; have firm confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics; uphold Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and uphold the Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership; and more purposefully study, observe, apply, and uphold the Party Constitution. This will ensure that the entire Party strives in unity to build a modern socialist country in all respects and advance national rejuvenation on all fronts.