Just in time for Halloween, the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued a frightening list of “ethical guidelines” to help citizens of China “inherit the red gene.”
Claiming to be aimed at “strengthening the moral construction of citizens under the conditions of socialist market economy and effectively promoted the building of socialist spiritual civilization,” the “Outline for the Implementation of the Ethical Construction of Citizens in the New Era” provides a pathway toward absolute acceptance of the socialist society supported by the communist regime.
The administration of Xi Jinping claims to have successfully increased the spiritual awareness of the wonders of the Marxist system and to have made possible the “Chinese dream” of a socialist system rooted in the “long history” of the Chinese civilization.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to the construction of civic morality, established a roots in shaping the soul, and has made a series of important arrangements to promote ideological and moral construction and achieve remarkable results.
Although there have been many Chinese men and women made “purer” by living according to the points of the “Ethical Construction,” the communist ruling party admits that the fight is far from over.
We must also see that under the background of profound changes in the international and domestic situation and profound changes in China’s economic and social development, the market economy rules, policies and regulations, and social governance are still not sound enough, and they are affected by bad ideological and cultural erosion and harmful information on the Internet.
To stop the acceleration of this moral decline, President Xi Jinping issued a list of “overall requirements” that all citizens of Chinese must begin to implement if they want to witness the New Era.
First, the Chinese people must:
Adhere to the Marxist morality and socialist morality, advocate communist morality, regard the people’s service as the core, take the collectivism as the principle, and love the motherland, love the people, love labor, love science, and love socialism as the basic requirements. Always maintain the socialist direction of civic moral construction.
Next:
Adhere to the socialist core values as the guide, and put the value requirements of the state, society and individual level into all aspects of moral construction, construct moral standards, strengthen moral identity, guide moral practice with mainstream values, and guide people to be clear and ethical. Public morality, strict private morality.
Third, the people must work to innovate and create a way to have every Chinese child “consciously inherit the traditional virtues of China.”
Next, the people must recognize “the subjective status of the people.”
In order to establish this firm foundation, the people must “Extensively carry out the education of ideals and beliefs in the whole society, deepen the propaganda and education of socialism and communism, deepen the propaganda and education of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese dream.”
To make this “dream” come true, Xi Jinping mandates that “it is necessary to inherit and carry forward the fine traditions created by the party leading the people, inherit the red genes, and continue the spiritual lineage.”
Inherit the “red gene”?
I can’t imagine any way to more clearly explain the difference between the United States and China!
In order to more handily hand down that “red gene,” Xi Jinping calls for tighter control over the curriculum in Chinese schools. “We must comprehensively implement the party’s education policy, adhere to the direction of socialist education, adhere to the principle of educating people and moral education, and regard ideological and moral as the core literacy of students,” he writes.
Admittedly, the section on education does sound eerily similar to the federal government’s efforts to control our own education system. For example:
Strengthen the ideological and moral education, follow the moral cognition rules of different ages, and combine the different characteristics of basic education, vocational education and higher education to effectively pass on the socialist core values and moral norms to students. Focusing on integration, the content and requirements of civic moral construction are reflected in the education of various disciplines, embodied in the construction of the disciplinary system, teaching system, teaching material system and management system.
In an all too Orwellian manner, the Communist Party lays out how to more quickly and permanently carry out the communist dream. “Through a variety of ways, we will guide the majority of families to repeat their teachings, teach themselves, teach knowledge, develop morality, lead by example, and use their correct moral concepts to shape their children’s beautiful minds,” the guidelines demand.
So as to prevent parents from transmitting their own values to their children rather than the values of the Communist Party, the Party will make sure that families are teaching their children “correct public opinion.”
“We must adhere to the correct public opinion to guide people, and reflect the correct value orientation and moral requirements in the news reports of various fields such as economy, society and culture, and reflect them in various programs such as entertainment, sports and advertising,” Jinping said.
“Party committees and governments at all levels” will be tasked with making sure that these newly updated ethical guidelines are implemented everywhere in China.
How will these committees function?
“Party and government departments such as discipline inspection and supervision organs and organizations” will monitor homes and schools to make sure these guidelines are rigorously followed.
Finally, the guidelines mandate that “trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the Women’s Federation and other groups” will monitor schools and families to assure the Party leadership that everyone “actively plays their role.”
As soon as the guidelines are published and put into action, Xi Jinping promises that all elements of Chinese society will “promote the formation of a good situation in which civic moral construction is vigorously developed and further developed.”
