The Six Why’s (六个为什么)
China Media Project translates a new initiative by the Hu Jintao administration to answer everyone’s nagging questions about China’s political system:
We introduce to you . . . the “Six Why’s.” That’s right, Hu Jintao and his army of CCP theorists have worked out a simple political primer for us all, a kind of FAQ of market-Leninism.
The “Six Why’s,” which could be read as an indirect response to the 20th anniversary of the 1989 student movement, and perhaps the CCP’s answer to Charter 08 and the published journals of former premier Zhao Ziyang, seek to answer basic political questions like, “Why should Marxism be our guiding ideology?”
Launched with great party media fanfare back on June 5, they have gotten precious little attention in the Western media. Why? Most likely because the “Six Why’s” formula, for all of its cozy paternalism, is still mostly an impenetrable mess of dogma.
Below is a CCTV report (in Chinese) about the Six Why’s:
POSTED COMMENTS: 3 Responses
In an age of information, the CCP first attempts to keep the Chinese people in the dark (Green Dam) and then fill their heads with yet more impenetrable nonsense (The Six Whys). What group of reactionary thugs has proven itself more afraid of change than the CCP? North Korea?
The Chinese people haven’t thrived for 30 years because of the CCP; they’ve thrived in spite of the CCP. In fact, the past 30 years of economic growth says more about how badly China was governed during the 30 years prior to reform than it says about how well China has been governed since.
Continued fearmongering by the CCP concerning Western attempts to stifle Chinese development is increasingly embarrassing. Sooner or later, the Chinese people will wonder why they’ve allowed themselves to be treated like children for so long. They deserve a better governement than the one in Beijing.
[...] he writes, noting that the Communist party has “promulgated a new doctrine known as the ‘six whys,’ stressing Marxist thought, the state’s role in the economy, party leadership, and the need to [...]
I have always known that the average citizens were intelloigent,all they needed was the truth and see for themselves what was truly going on in China,they are not animals to be kept in the dark about the things going on. I am so glad that the internet is helping to break down the secretive wall of the ccp,they have a right to know and evaluate the facts,and judge and respond with their opinions,and help china’s whole country and citizens grow into the equally compensated persons that they deserve,and not just the corrupt government officials,and their over propaganda drilled drones of cadres and of course their corrupt family members,sucking china dry.