Chinese Communist Party centenary: Remoulding the world in its image, By Owei Lakemfa

As I write, I have the feeling that as the compass of the Communist Party of China clocks a hundred years this July 1, China will be standing on an elevation like the Great Wall, viewing the world and thinking how to remould it, possibly in its own image

Unlike other territories directly colonised by single powers or countries, China was too large to be colonised by a single country, so a concert of eight powers – Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Japan and United States – chopped it up for exploitation. When in 1899-1900, the Chinese rose to throw the foreigners out of their country in what came to be known as the Boxer Revolution, those eight powers sent a combined 51,755 soldiers to suppress the revolt.

What had seemed mere theory to many became praxis when in November, 1917, the Russian followers of Marx and Engels, led by a local lawyer called Vladimir Illiych Lenin, carried out a successful revolt which became known as the Bolshevik or Russian Revolution. Those in attendance included Chen Duxiu, who became the party’s founding General Secretary , Li Dazhao, who was to be executed in the struggle for the revolution, and Mao Tse Tung one of the two delegates of Hunan who was to take over the leadership of the CPC on March 20, 1943.

On power relations, he argued that: All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Chinese communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

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