Walden Bello recounts history in analysing the significance of the Chinese Communist Party celebrating completion of hundred years

[Sukla Sen]

Walden Bello - well-known left wing scholar-activist, recounts, in some details, a momentous century, that has just gone by.

He also, in the process, tries to read the tea leaves and offers something hugely disturbing.

Very much worth a close and careful look.

Even if Bello sort of comes out as an apologist for the incumbent regime in China.

<<July 1, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Community [read: Communist] Party, one of the most important institutions of our time. Reflecting on the meaning of this centennial, the first thing that entered my head was that the present does change the significance of the past.

Before 1991, when the Soviet state went pffft, I would have bet, hands down, that the most important event of the 20th century was the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Now, owing to history’s merciless intolerance for failed experiments, the Chinese Revolution has emerged as the most momentous event of the last century, and its paradoxical consequence — the rise of China as the center of global capital accumulation — bids fair to be the most significant development of this century as well.>>

(Excerpted from: <https://fpif.org/the-three-revolutions-of-the-chinese-communist-party>.)