Seeing the Light in the Chinese Nation's Darkest Hour

Ji Feng · December 2, 2025 · 

Next year marks another bingwu year [Note: The year 2026 in the Chinese sexagenary cycle], exactly 60 years since 1966. Can we learn from our mistakes? Can we awaken further? There is no savior—when every person stands up, we become a forest of steel!

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The socialist public ownership economy has been almost completely destroyed by the capitalist roaders. The massive privatization of public assets is a defining feature of this era. The working class, originally the leading class of our nation, is no longer that class leading everything. They have become slaves to capital. Vast numbers of corrupt officials, the wealthy, and capitalists have transferred the blood and sweat of the Chinese people overseas. The moral standards of the Chinese people have reached their lowest point in 5,000 years, because to be a "good cat" [Note: Reference to Deng Xiaoping's famous saying about not caring if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice], people will stop at nothing for profit. Since the traitorous promotion of American GMO staple crops began in 2009, many Chinese now die primarily of cancer. The elite promote the industrialization of healthcare with profit as the goal of treating illness, and there's suspected collaboration with international medical capital as AIDS has massively invaded—China's infection rate has become number one in the world. For decades, a socialist country has actually put the pursuit of money on its lips, selling everything: marriage, chastity, the nation, green mountains and clear waters.

With the industrialization of healthcare, for the sake of profit, organ transplantation has even been legalized. It's said China is to become the world's number one wholesale market for organ transplants—whose organs will be treated like pig hearts and cow livers, to be wholesaled at will by wealthy magnates from around the world? This is terrifying.

China has 1.4 billion people. I believe approximately 1 billion workers are engaged in wage labor, selling their labor power. They are all forced to live within capitalist production relations, all producing for capitalism—not building socialism.

Regarding the people's democratic dictatorship: how can a bunch of paupers be the dictators? The simplest logic is that to judge whether a class is the leading class, look at their possession of means of production and social wealth. Workers and peasants comprise over 90% of the population but possess only 2% of social wealth. Can you call this a people's democratic dictatorship?

The capitalist roaders and revisionists have dragged the People's Republic of China into the mire of capitalism and are racing down the road of privatization. Once a country enters a particular social form, it can last hundreds or even thousands of years. Our China just freed itself through revolution from the utterly evil semi-colonial, semi-feudal society and leaped directly to the socialist stage without experiencing capitalist exploitation and oppression. Now we've returned to utterly evil capitalism. What kind of capitalism is this? Can this be called socialism? It's a capitalism ten thousand times more vile than primitive, savage capitalism—everywhere are sweatshops, 996, 887 [Note: "996" refers to working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week; "887" means 8am-8pm, 7 days a week]. Housing prices here are higher than in capitalist countries, polarization is more severe than in capitalist countries, the people suffer exploitation unprecedented and most severe in the world. The international image of Chinese people—each one a convict who only knows how to work desperately. A socialist country's people should possess the noble spirit of communism and collectivism, but profit-seeking rules this era. China actually has 120 million unmarried women—why are they single? Because they demand exorbitant bride prices, covet money, and all want to marry the bourgeoisie. Since the bourgeoisie doesn't exceed 5% of the population, they become "leftover women"—this is a tremendous shame for a socialist country.

The Chinese people, who were masters of the nation for decades, have once again become slaves. How many years will this slave status last? When Soviet revisionism succeeded in capitalist restoration, the people not only suffered capitalist exploitation and oppression, but the country also broke apart. Now that China has fallen into the capitalist mire, can it ever jump back out?

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Does our China still have prospects? Does our China still have a future? I observe Chinese society and the people's quiet awakening.

How can we speak of the people's widespread awakening? From the people's attitude toward Chairman Mao, I see tremendous strength—that is, in the Chinese nation's darkest hour, we should see the light.

What is our nation's sun? It is the great, invincible Mao Zedong Thought. The Chinese people in their darkest hour should be most grateful to Chairman Mao for his great exploration to prevent socialism from taking the road of capitalist restoration.

The Chinese nation has reached a crossroads—will we continue down the evil path of capitalism, or will we take the socialist road? At this crossroads, I see the direction.

How specifically to proceed? The capitalist roaders destroyed socialism starting with household farming contracts [Note: The "dividing fields" policy that disbanded collective farms in the early 1980s]. To return to socialism, we must also start with the collective road of people's communes. This is the dawn of the Chinese nation—the socialist road guided by Mao Zedong Thought.

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Chinese society has experienced such chaotic regression precisely because it violated Chairman Mao's line of continuing revolution. The specific root cause is the disaster of household farming contracts—that's the source of calamity.

Chairman Mao advocated that people's commune production teams should vigorously develop collective enterprises, eliminating the need to work outside. But the capitalist roaders changed Chairman Mao's line, and now peasants face utter ruin. They merely have enough to eat (and that's on land won by 28 million revolutionary martyrs), while facing the prospect of extinction. Over 100 million unmarried men, pensions of only 100-plus yuan—pitifully low. Peasants and villages face annihilation.

Household farming scattered peasants like sand; their political power became zero. This drove changes in the working class's political position, leading to the dissolution of state-owned and collective enterprises, causing the working class to become a disadvantaged group. The worker-peasant alliance completely disintegrated. The leading class of the People's Republic of China stepped down, and immediately the three mountains of marketization pressed down like a shadow. Household farming is both capitalism's accomplice and the target capitalism wants to eliminate.

The village collective enterprises were smashed and sold off cheaply in 1984. Now peasants spend over 95% of their time using their hard labor to support private enterprise owners and exploiters. And now the capitalist roaders and revisionists have formed considerable momentum. Both the economic base and leading class of socialism have changed. Twenty-eight million revolutionary martyrs, 28 years of outstanding revolutionary sacrifice. When you think of revolution, do you think of thousands upon thousands of revolutionary heroes—Liu Hulan, Sister Jiang, Huang Jiguang, Dong Cunrui, the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain [Note: Famous revolutionary martyrs from China's modern history]—facing the dissolution of the New China built with their blood and sweat?

The capitalist roaders and revisionists are just one step away from subverting the People's Republic of China—changing the flag. But they dare not, because they fear the Cultural Revolution. In the Mao Zedong era, rightism, rightists, and revisionism were frequently criticized (this is what rightists call "guarding against the left"). Chairman Mao received 11 million Red Guards in 1966—they were merely middle school students then. I believe a considerable portion of them and their children now understand Chairman Mao's painstaking efforts and are using Chairman Mao's theory of opposing revisionism and continuing revolution to join the revolutionary struggle against capitalist roaders and revisionism to save the People's Republic of China. This is why, although the People's Republic of China's economic foundation was damaged in 1998 and the nation's masters became the bureaucratic bourgeoisie—under such political and economic crisis—the People's Republic of China has not disintegrated into seven or eight states like the Spring and Autumn or Warring States periods [Note: Historical reference to periods of fragmentation in Chinese history] over nearly 30 years. On the contrary, I see the nation's hope.

Here's an example: Previously we saw few people commemorating Chairman Mao, such as in the 1990s. But starting in 2018, ordinary people began commemorating Chairman Mao like a mountain roar or ocean tide—no one called for it, no one ordered it, it came spontaneously. I believe some people aren't just joining the excitement but seriously studying Mao Zedong Thought, learning Chairman Mao's theory of continuing revolution, and fighting against the capitalist roaders and revisionists.

The capitalist roader elite pointed China toward the evil path. They partnered with American imperialism, bringing American privatization and marketization—things like healthcare industrialization—all this capitalist garbage to China. They abandoned Marxism and vigorously pursued revisionism. They don't study Capital but promote theories of national wealth, elevating bourgeois economists to the heavens. Without distinguishing between capitalism and socialism, these capitalist things don't suit China's national conditions. Because it's rightist capitulation, traitors and national betrayers form groups and trends, becoming culture. They rush to rehabilitate Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek, and Qin Hui [Note: Historical figures considered traitors in Chinese history]. Various traitorous forces fill politics, economics, culture, finance, and every field. American and Japanese imperialism see hope for invading China. They believe with so many traitors working from within, they can certainly destroy the Chinese nation. War comes uninvited. In 2025, Japanese invaders openly issued war threats against China. In the Mao Zedong era, who would dare?

The Chinese people suffer exploitation and oppression, eating bitterness twice, suffering punishment twice. The masses again raise high the banner of Mao Zedong Thought to illuminate this darkness with its light.

Now so many respectable patriots remember Chairman Mao's teaching: struggle against selfishness and criticize revisionism. So many people on various websites are criticizing revisionism, criticizing capitalist roaders, criticizing capitalists. These people truly respect revolutionary martyrs, truly love the People's Republic of China, truly love the Chinese nation, truly love the Communist Party of China. Socialism will not perish—they are the nation's backbone.

Chairman Mao said a single spark can start a prairie fire. After decades of education in the Mao Zedong era opposing capitalist restoration and criticizing revisionism, this has been deeply imprinted in our nation's historical memory. The weapons from that era for criticizing revisionism and criticizing the bourgeois capitalist roaders—when modern people take them up, they will inevitably burn revisionism.

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In 1949, the Chinese people under Chairman Mao and the Communist Party's leadership began the great socialist revolution. In basically six years, they transformed private economy through conversion from private to public ownership, and the socialist revolution reached a stage of completion. This also led many to mistakenly believe the socialist revolution had succeeded—an extremely dangerous and erroneous understanding that led many to believe we should abandon "class struggle as the key link" and abandon continuing revolution. This poisonous and harmful thinking persists to this day. Actually, the socialist revolution only succeeded in its first step. Public ownership became dominant. China entered socialist society. From that point, we could build socialism. But after the so-called restructuring promoted by privatization elites and revisionist restorationists, public ownership enterprises were all privatized again. Now it's very difficult to find traces of public ownership enterprises. Socialist economic components no longer dominate. The village collective economy has been completely smashed and given to a few, sold cheaply—sold as scrap iron at two cents per jin [Note: Chinese unit of weight, approximately 0.5 kg]. The socialist revolution was interrupted—how can we not conduct revolution? Can this be called socialism?

Now the essence of the People's Republic of China is undergoing a long socialist revolution. But the socialist revolution isn't smooth sailing. Sometimes its achievements are completely lost—just like how Chen Duxiu [Note: Early Communist leader blamed for losses] turned 46,000 Communist Party members into 10,000, or how Li De [Note: Comintern advisor blamed for military losses] turned 300,000 Red Army soldiers into fewer than 30,000—such major losses. This is where China's socialist revolution closely resembles the New Democratic Revolution. During the New Democratic Revolution, Chairman Mao was alive, and following the revolutionary line he indicated, the Chinese Communist Party led the Chinese revolution out of the mire and established New China. Now the great leader Chairman Mao has left us, but he placed before us the weapon of continuing revolution—the brilliant Mao Zedong Thought. We take up this theoretical weapon as the sun illuminating the Chinese nation's future, radiating tremendous light. Therefore, we must raise high the banner of Mao Zedong Thought. Following the road Chairman Mao indicated, the first step is returning to people's communes and production teams to emerge from this earth-shattering catastrophe and continue courageously walking the socialist revolutionary road. Historically, when we violated Mao Zedong Thought's guerrilla warfare principles and fought the enemy head-on, we failed and reached desperate straits. Returning was victory. Now we should return to the line of Mao Zedong Thought to bring the socialist revolution to the correct path.

The socialist revolution will last three or four hundred years. It includes not only transforming private ownership of means of production into public ownership, but also transforming people's thinking—struggle against selfishness and criticize revisionism. Struggling against the various exploiting class thoughts accumulated over thousands of years—we've only reached nearly 100 years. There's still a long way to go.

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Chairman Mao once said: when revisionists come to power, it's the bourgeoisie coming to power. They won't have peace and will be short-lived, because the Chinese people have a revolutionary tradition. Now revisionist restorationists inevitably tremble with fear and panic greatly due to Mao Zedong Thought's existence. The so-called revolutionary tradition is actually that the Chinese people haven't stopped revolution but continuously struggle against traitors and national thieves who oppose Mao Zedong Thought, struggling against exploitation and oppression. This class struggle has never stopped and has now reached white heat.

Because China walks on the track of socialist revolution, it inevitably won't be smooth sailing. Regression is possible.

This era is one of privatization robbery. Various elite experts, professors, and literary hacks weave various gorgeous privatization hats. Opposing and mocking Communist Party members' special quality of selfless devotion, they rob the people's public wealth—this is the prominent feature of these decades. Thousands upon thousands of revolutionary martyrs, for the Chinese nation's liberation, for New China's establishment, shed their blood and gave their lives. Did they ever think of personal private interest? Did they ever do it for a single cent? But now privatization elites spend all day discussing the great significance of private desire and self-interest—"privatization is the correct path for humanity." State enterprises should be privatized. They devise various gorgeous theories while robbing the people's wealth. This era is the ugliest in 5,000 years of Chinese civilization history—you absolutely couldn't find a second one.

Finally we've walked back to the starting position where the 1949 socialist revolution coordinate equals zero.

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To change China and return to the socialist road, we must start by changing the countryside, must start by changing household farming contracts. Let peasants return to people's communes and collectivism, change the terrible state of Chinese people being scattered like sand, cultivate collectivism. Change hearts being selfish, the ugly social state of people hurting and distrusting each other. When peasants unite and have strength, public ownership economic power grows strong, workers' status rises. There won't be laid-off workers. When worker-peasant status stabilizes, we'll settle accounts with the thieves who privately swallowed state-owned and collective enterprises. When state-owned and collective enterprises hold dominant position, socialism will temporarily stabilize. Additionally, people's commune production teams filled with collectivist spirit have tremendous military significance—the people become more united, no longer scattered like sand, jointly facing American and Japanese enemies.

People's communes, established in 1958 and ended in 1984—people were vigorously pursuing socialism, not developing capitalism like now. Can 1 billion people working for capital be called building socialism? In people's communes, people helped and learned from each other, held high the collectivist spirit. Learning from Lei Feng [Note: Model soldier promoted as selfless servant of the people] and doing good deeds became prevailing custom. Society was clean and upright. People's commune collective economy possessed deep mass foundation. Over these decades, more than 3,000 villages have persisted in collectivism, withstanding reactionary forces' counterattacks. Before powerful counter-revolutionary forces, they've stood firm, raising high the banner of socialism and communism, leading Chinese people forward. They are China's most respectable people, the Chinese people's hope. Peasants living in collective economy deeply know collective economy is good.

Household farming contracts nurture selfish hearts. They share the same lineage with capitalism's promotion that hearts are only private and profit-seeking. They're the vanguard of capitalist restoration. For Chinese people to return to the socialist road, to choose the socialist road, the first solid cornerstone is villages reinstituting the people's commune system.

Where did China's capitalist restoration come from? From household farming contracts (if there were no household farming, the socialist road would have been incomparably solid. Household farming meant eating steamed buns two years earlier and eating less corn bread for two years, but it destroyed socialism). It started from promoting selfish hearts. For socialism to return to its correct path, we must still start with the countryside—we must return to people's communes. In the Chinese nation's darkest hour, we should see the light and move toward it. This light is the road Chairman Mao indicated.

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Next year is another bingwu year—1966's 60-year cycle. Chairman Mao said he did two things in his life: one was the New Democratic Revolution, driving Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan Island. The second was launching the Cultural Revolution—not many understand it. He'd rather bear infamy than severely punish capitalist roaders, rather be misunderstood by the masses and smashed to pieces than battle revisionism. This is a great person's sincere great love for the Chinese nation and Chinese people.

But what did considerable masses do? Did they live up to him? A considerable number believed capitalist roaders' lies, mocked and criticized Mao Zedong's later years as mistaken, laughing that he was confused in old age.

But now what the people most hope for is Mao Zedong's return to severely punish corrupt officials, capitalist roaders, revisionists, traitors and national betrayers, human traffickers who abduct and steal organs, Japanese invaders, American imperialists, Taiwan independence elements, eliminate powerful clans, and so on.

Common people listened to capitalist roaders' lies, entered the evil path, and discovered they fell into a pit difficult to climb out of. 2026 is the year of universal repentance, when the laboring masses suffering capitalist exploitation and oppression truly understand Chairman Mao's later years' actions rectifying capitalist roaders and criticizing revisionism.