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🧵On the the 100th anniversary of China’s Communist Party, don’t forget that feminism played a key role in China’s revolutionary history.
The first woman to emerge as a leader within the Chinese Communist network was 23-year-old Wang Huiwu, a May Fourth activist who used her community of Shanghai women’s activists to organize locations for secret Communist meetings in 1921. (From my book, Betraying Big Brother 116) Image
Wang had written essays condemning China’s arranged marriage system as a form of lifelong imprisonment for women. Her most prominent essay, “The Chinese Woman Question: Liberation from a Trap,” was published in 1919 in Young China, whose advisors included Mao Zedong.
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Let’s take a look at the fate of all the 13 delegates of the CCP’s first congress (founding fathers) to get some sense of this mafia:
2 traitors serving the invading Japanese fascists, sentenced to death after WWII(Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fohai).
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3 quit CCP, joined KMT (CCP’s primary enemy) (Li Hanjun, Zhang Guotao, Bao Huiseng).
1 quit CCP, rejoined, then expelled (Li Da).
1 expelled (Liu Renjing)
1 was killed in a guerrilla war (He Shuheng).
2 were killed by warlords (Chen Tanqiu, Deng Enming)
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1 died of illness (Wang Jinmei)
1 lived a relatively safe life (Dong Biwu)
1 eventually ruled the CCP and the country till his death (Mao)
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U.S. media & others around the world are commemorating #CCP100Years, so let’s discuss the Cultural Revolution truthfully.

“During the Cultural Revolution, the collection of bullet fees had great symbolic value to revolutionaries.

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“Following the public trial & execution of Liu Wenhui as a counter revolutionary on March 27, 1967, a mob of “revolutionary rebels” and indignant neighbors led by an officer from the police station descended on his home shouting “down with” slogans…

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“while police collected a bullet fee from his mother. Likewise, after the execution of the musician Lu Hongen two days before that of Lin Zhao, the authorities demanded a bullet fee from his wife.

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To answer the CCP’s call to celebrate its 100th anniversary, I am writing a long thread that will end on July 1st, its birthday, trying once more to convince people that the CCP is not a communist political organization as it claims and many Westerners believe, but a mafia.
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The Chinese word for this type of organization is 帮会 or 黑帮. The following thread is my prior attempt 👇
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The CCP has remained the same since its founding. The middle school dropout (MSD) has been repeatedly emphasizing this. This makes it possible to see the CCP’s nature by looking at a snapshot of a period.
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