The Nine
Commentaries on the Communist
Party were first published in November of 2004,
followed quickly by an English translation. In 15 years,
the series has led over 300 million Chinese to renounce
the communist party and its affiliated organizations,
fostering an unprecedented peaceful movement for
transformation and change in China.
People continue to renounce the party every day. Here we
republish the newly re-edited Nine Commentaries, linked
to video versions produced by our partner media NTD
Television.
More than a decade after the fall of the former Soviet
Union and the Eastern European communist regimes, the
international communist movement has been spurned
worldwide. The demise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
is only a matter of time.
Nevertheless, before its complete collapse, the CCP is
trying to tie its fate to the Chinese nation, with its
5000 years of civilization. This is a disaster for the
Chinese people. The Chinese people must now face the
impending questions of how to view the CCP, how to help
China evolve into a society without the CCP, and how to
pass on the Chinese heritage.
The Epoch Times is now publishing a special editorial
series, Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party. Before the lid
is laid on the coffin of the CCP, we wish to pass a
final judgment on it and on the international communist
movement, which has been a scourge to humanity for over
a century.
Throughout its 80-plus years, everything the CCP has
touched has been marred with lies, wars, famine,
tyranny, massacre, and terror. Traditional faiths and
principles have been violently destroyed. Original
ethical concepts and social structures have been
disintegrated by force. Empathy, love, and harmony among
people have been twisted into struggle and hatred.
Veneration and appreciation of heaven and earth have
been replaced by an arrogant desire to “fight with
heaven and earth.”
The result has been a total collapse of social, moral,
and ecological systems, and a profound crisis for the
Chinese people—and indeed for humanity. All these
calamities have been brought about through the
deliberate planning, organization, and control of the
CCP.
As a famous Chinese poem goes, “Deeply I sigh in vain
for the falling flowers.” The end is near for the
communist regime, which is barely struggling to survive.
The days before its collapse are numbered. The Epoch
Times believes the time is now ripe, before the CCP’s
total demise, for a comprehensive look back, in order to
fully expose how this largest cult in history has
embodied the wickedness of all times and places.
We hope that those who are still deceived by the CCP
will now see its nature clearly, purge its poison from
their spirits, extricate their minds from its evil
control, free themselves from the shackles of terror,
and abandon for good all illusions about it.
The CCP’s rule is the darkest and the most ridiculous
page in Chinese history. Among its unending list of
crimes, the vilest must be its persecution of Falun
Gong. In persecuting Falun Gong’s principles of
“Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance,” Jiang Zemin
has driven the last nail into the CCP’s coffin.
The Epoch Times believes that by understanding the true
history of the CCP, we can help prevent such tragedies
from ever recurring. At the same time, we hope each one
of us would reflect on our innermost thoughts and
examine whether our cowardice and compromise have made
us accomplices in many tragedies that could have been
avoided.
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