From The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World blog:
The Communist Party should decide at its 17th congress to ditch members who do not truly believe in Marxism or risk seeing the party become a mere instrument for the protection of vested interest groups, according to a prominent scholar.
The call from Liu Fuyuan , former vice-president of the National Development and Reform Commission’s (NDRC) Macroeconomic Research Academy, is a sign of rising frustration among scholars about social inequality and the party’s quiet departure from Marxism despite insisting it remains communist.
“Capitalism is not scary. What is scary is to take capitalism as socialism and confuse people’s beliefs,” Mr Liu wrote in Strategic Choices for the Communist Party of China, an 81-page paper urging the party to initiate reforms at the congress later this year.
“If anyone in our party has discovered any new ideas that keep up with the progress of time and are better than Marxism, that would be a special contribution to humanity and he should openly declare it. Why should they confuse people by wearing Marxism as a jacket?” [Full Text]
