China’s Communist Party Membership Tops 85 Million

For those naive souls who believe China is gradually abandoning communism.

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From the Communist Party of China website:

The number of Communist Party of China (CPC) members has surpassed 85 million, according to latest figures from the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

The CPC had 85.13 million members at the end of 2012, according to a department statement on Sunday, one day before the 92nd anniversary of its founding.

Last year, 3.23 million people joined the CPC, the world’s largest political Party — a net increase of 2.53 million taking into account members who died or left the Party.

More than 44 percent of new members are frontline workers, such as industrial employees, farmers, heders and migrant staff.

At its birth the Party had only about 50 members and this grew to nearly 4.5 million when the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949.

7.16 million members work in Party and state agencies, and 20.20 million are managerial staff and professional technicians working in enterprises and nonprofit organizations. Students make up 2.91 million, the statement said.

More than a quarter of members are 35 years or younger and about 34.09 million have obtained degrees in higher education institutions, according to the statement.

In addition to the increasing membership, the number of the Party’s grassroots organizations also grew last year.

The CPC had 4.20 million grassroots Party organs across the country at the end of 2012, an increase of 4.3 percent from a year earlier.

These grassroots organs were set up in 7,245 urban subdisctricts, 33,000 towns, 87,000 urban communities and 588,000 villages.

Party organs were established in nearly all government organs, state-owned and private enterprises, and social organizations.

The statement said the structure of the CPC’s membership has been enhanced with younger and more higher-educated people joining. Also, the coverage of Party organs increased in 2012.

While China has adopted “capitalist” methods of production – as has Vietnam, the Party maintains total control.

China’s own theoreticians acknowledge that China’s early revolutionaries made a mistake in attempting to go from feudalism into socialism, without first going through capitalism – as Marx deemed necessary.

China’s current experiments with a semi-market economy are merely an attempt to build China’s wealth (and military might) before advancing on to world socialism, then communism.

China is ruled by Marxist-Leninists, who are just as committed to world revolution,  as were their venerated fathers and grandfathers.

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4 thoughts on “China’s Communist Party Membership Tops 85 Million

  1. Trevor:

    IMHO China (and to some extent Russia) evidences a convergence of the left and right wings of collectivism. The economy of China cannot be said to be capitalist in any sense we would recognize (and “capitalist” is after all a Marxist term that I do not wholly accept in the first place). Rather, it is an economy mutating from one that is socialist in the Maoist model to one that is corporatist, more in the fascist or national socialist model.

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