From the Anti-Rightist Campaign to the Cultural Revolution: The CCP’s Unrestricted Warfare in the Past Several Decades

(Minghui.org) Two senior military officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published Unrestricted Warfare in 1999, proposing to defeat enemies through means beyond direct military confrontation. More specifically, the book talked about political warfare, legal tools (lawfare), and economic measures.

Although such a book was not published until 1999, these tactics had been adopted by the CCP since its emergence during numerous political campaigns. With its core values of class struggle, brutality, and lies, the regime targets groups it considers enemies with no regard for maintaining any moral baseline.

Since the time of Karl Marx, atheism has been a central theme of communist ideology. The CCP has used atheism and the theory of evolution to deceive people, causing members of the CCP to be tamed like animals, losing their dignity and humanity. Recall that English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley claimed himself to be a bulldog of Charles Darwin; and Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong, called herself a dog of Chairman Mao, ready to target opponents as needed, when explaining her role in the Cultural Revolution.

This is not a trivial matter, since human society is not the animal kingdom. After all, mankind can create civilizations, but animals cannot. After arriving in China, however, communist ideology quickly grew, leaving a trail of blood and tragedies. With brutality and lies, the regime deceived kindhearted people while it mobilized those with selfish motives to target others. The means involved ranged from sheer brutality to using political, legal, and economic tools – typical characteristics of unrestricted warfare.

During the Land Reform Movement in 1950, the CCP forcibly took away landlords’ land and assets. By calling its opponents the “exploiting class,” the CCP attempted to justify the brutality it had unleashed. The regime continued to mobilize ordinary citizens to attack landlords and their offspring in the following decades, instilling hatred in people’s minds and depriving them of respect for one another.

During the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-1959), the CCP targeted intellectuals who understood history, and who cherished traditional values. These people represented the mainstream of society and would be instrumental in carrying on the legacy of China’s several millennia of civilization. To make this campaign successful, the CCP first “welcomed” intellectuals to provide their honest opinions and then used their opinions as “evidence” to frame them.

The Anti-Rightist Campaign was a heavy blow for traditional Chinese culture. Through this campaign, intellectuals lost their dignity to safeguard traditional values. They also learned to either remain silent or to follow the CCP’s narratives closely, since that was the only way to remain safe.

The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) went a step further to systematically destroy traditional Chinese culture. Confucius was targeted and people were instigated to attack one another. Students attacked teachers, children attacked their parents, and the Party also instigated class struggles between husbands and wives. Through this decade-long campaign, Chinese people abandoned their culture, including their values and manners, and replaced it with CCP Party culture.

These tragedies continued with notably with the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, and the persecution of Falun Gong from 1999 until the present. The CCP abused the entire state apparatus to target a group who follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and the general public was misled by its endless hate propaganda. Based on “lessons learned” from previous campaigns, many people learned to ignore their consciences and independent thinking and participated in the suppression either directly or indirectly.

A large number of Falun Gong practitioners have been discriminated against, arrested, and detained for their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They have been subjected to physical torture and psychiatric abuse, forced labor, and endless brainwashing classes. Statistics from the Minghui website show that more than 5,000 practitioners have lost their lives, but the real number could be much higher due to the CCP’s censorship and its hidden crimes of forced organ harvesting.

As mentioned above, the campaigns launched by the CCP all had the characteristics of unrestricted warfare. This has been especially so as it has carried out the persecution of Falun Gong. The CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal agency, to carry out the persecution at all levels, across all professions, and reaching every corner of society. The CCP has arrested, detained, and tortured practitioners. It has also forced children of practitioners out of school, forced husbands and wives to divorce each other, and forced employers to terminate practitioners’ employment. The motive for these crimes can be summarized in an order against Falun Gong practitioners from Jiang Zemin, former leader of the CCP: “Ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and eliminate them physically.”

The CCP has continuously pushed its communist agenda overseas, including exporting its persecution of Falun Gong overseas, but more and more people are recognizing the CCP’s nature. More than 440 million people have renounced their memberships in CCP organizations. Rejecting the CCP in the international society will help more people embrace their consciences and stay away from danger.