The Communist Party of the Philippines on 5 July lambasted President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China as “a big imperialist bully” for pushing its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ to unload China’s surplus capital, compelling other nations to give up their sovereignty and patrimony through financial and economic pressures, and utilizing its enlarged armed forces to harass Filipino fishers and occupy Philippine territories in the West Philippine Sea.
CPP Chief Information Officer Marco Valbuena commented on the speech delivered by Xi Jinping on 1 July marking the Centennial of the CPC, lamenting how “the once great, glorious and correct CPC has degenerated from a party of the working class to a party ruled by modern revisionists and the bourgeoisie; from a party of socialism to a party of capitalism; from a party of revolution to a party of reaction.”
Valbuena said that the 15-page speech did not even once mentioned the word ‘proletariat’, indicating the “CPC has lost its class-based militance and revolutionary spirit,” and that Xi Jinping “echoes Kruschov’s bourgeois populist ‘party and state of the whole people’ to mask their betrayal of socialism and the proletarian cause.”
The CPP criticized Xi Jinping for avoiding the word ‘socialism’, harping instead on ‘national rejuvenation’. “This has no meaning for the Chinese proletariat and toiling masses who are exploited by the state monopoly bourgeoisie and big capitalists to accumulate vast amounts of wealth,” Valbuena said.
Valbuena, reacting to Xi Jinping’s description of China as “moderately prosperous”, said this obscures the deep economic and class divide between those who rule over the state and big corporations on the one hand, and the workers who toil under oppressive conditions and small farmers who were displaced from their land.
“‘Moderately prosperous’ is what you get,” Valbuena asserts, “when you average the wealth of China’s 626 billionaires worth US$2.531 trillion, to that owned by hundreds of millions of workers and peasants amounting to practically nothing and the possessions of a few tens of millions who toil to keep themselves in the middle.”
The CPP called on the proletarian revolutionaries in China to “stay true to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism... stand up and expose all the bourgeois populist lies of Xi Jinping and the Chinese monopoly capitalists and tell the whole world of the evils that capitalist restoration in China has wrought on the Chinese people.”
“They must reestablish a genuine communist party in China and take back the red flag from the modern revisionists in order to expose their true colors.”