Day: October 20, 2023

Comrade Leader and Fellow Citizens,

I stand before you today with a heavy heart and a humble spirit, acknowledging my grave errors and misguided actions. As a reporter, entrusted with the responsibility to convey the truth, I regrettably allowed my judgment to falter, leading me to speak out against the Communist Party of China, the very cornerstone of our great nation.

In my pursuit of truth, I lost sight of the collective vision that has guided our country towards prosperity and unity. I failed to recognize the unwavering dedication of our Party and its leaders, especially our esteemed Chairman Mao, whose wisdom has illuminated our path.

I now understand the gravity of my actions and the impact they have had on our society. My words sowed seeds of doubt, inadvertently creating divisions among us. I failed to uphold the principles of unity, harmony, and socialism that our Party stands for. For this, I sincerely apologize to all my fellow citizens and especially to the Party, which I hold in the highest regard.

Through self-reflection and the teachings of our Party, I have come to realize the errors of my ways. I have learned that true progress can only be achieved through unwavering loyalty to our Party and its leadership. I have been selfish, but now I realize “The people who have triumphed in their own revolution should help those still struggling for liberation” (Mao, August 8, 1963). My outspoken distaste with the Chinese Communist Party was not directed at the party per-say, but it was my content with my life that led me a stray from helping others with their revolution. 

I have committed myself to rectifying my thoughts and actions, embracing the ideology by following in the footsteps of Lei Feng and become more providing to the people that need it most.

I am grateful for this opportunity to correct my mistakes and reaffirm my allegiance to the Communist Party of China. I pledge to intensify my efforts in serving our nation, promoting the Party’s core values, and standing as a staunch defender of our collective ideals.

May my self-criticism serve as a testament to my dedication to the cause of socialism and the continued prosperity of our great motherland.

Yours humbly and faithfully,

Miao Bing Rong 

My dear readers, I have been writing to you for a long time. Starting back when our great leader Chairman Mao fought off the capitalist government that was doing their absolute best to ruin China. The building of the CCP in Yenan, Land reform, collectivization, and then most recently the great leap forward. However, I have led you astray as it is not my turn to repent and write a self-criticism for remarks I have made when I obviously wasn’t educated enough on Chairman Mao’s view to be giving an opinion let alone inform your opinion, dear reader.  

Long before Chairman Maos thought was so readily available to study thoroughly in the little red book I went home for the first time since the war against Japanese aggression and when I arrived I saw my first struggle session against the foul landlords who took advantage of the righteous people of China and I couldn’t help but question the violence that ensued with the beatings of rich families and the death of many landlords. 

This was a temporary lapse in judgment stemming from many scenes of violence and brutality etched into my mind from a time my new comrades did not experience and from a time before the availability of Chairman Mao’s thoughts. It was hard being in the trenches with Mao at Yenan and reporting on what was going on in the surrounding areas and the violence made me tired. However now with Mao’s thoughts written down in such a beautiful understandable manner I see that a nation’s struggle is indicative of a Class struggle and that violence is part of that struggle. I also understand that the peasants needed to rise up and fight their landlords in order to overthrow the mental shackles as the peasants had experienced years and years of mistreatment economically and politically. It is all thanks to the more recent distribution of Mao Zedong though that I now have dedicated myself to understanding things I was unable to comprehend before because our great leader Mao sees the whole picture of events in China where I have only seen the places I have been. All my simple questions have been answered by the concise chapters of the Little Red Book and Mao has enlightened me to be a better comrade than I ever have been before this point. 

My dear readers. When we last spoke China was moving forward under the leadership of Chairman Mao.

Although we continue to follow party policy in the hopes of not just moving forward but leaping forward. Things are bleak. I am still in Shaanxi with my family. I have not seen a smile in my house for years. We are all starving. My grandfather passed away after giving his food to my grandmother and now my grandmother is sick with malnutrition and most likely won’t make it. My father had to close his general store and is made to work in the fields. My mother who used to never leave the house now has to abandon my sick grandmother in order to tend to the children of the village. Once she tried to stay home to tend to my grandmother and was slapped by a party cadre for not showing up to the commune. The basis of our family has been broken by these party policies. I used to see my family every night for dinner but now we can only eat in the collective dining hall and it is not the same. 

I work in the fields with my sister where we work long days with little food and are encouraged to implement farming methods thought of by party officials who I believe have been misguided. While not everyone has been a farmer the party’s ideas for how to plant crops seem strange. The idea of deep farming and planting the seeds deep underground to make stronger plants is possibly counterintuitive to Chairman Mao’s harvest goals and anyone who is educated and most with general experience knows that this will just kill the plant before it gets a chance to sprout. 

We all follow these policies anyway because of our faith in Chairman Mao and his policies. He hasn’t led us astray yet and I hope this indescribable suffering is just in north China and that Chairman Mao is attempting to gather relief for us and replace our unreliable cadre as quickly as possible. We only wake up and get through the day because of the loudspeakers and posters showing us that these policies are working in other parts of China. The paper contained a photo of children standing on top of strong plants and we hope to achieve the same results if everything can run as Chairman Mao intends them. However, my confidence in these matters has been shaken. I wonder who approved these strategies for large-scale implementation. I am sure Chairman Mao is using China’s best and brightest to affirm his plans before the guidance is pushed to the peasants. 

I hope beyond hope for a miracle to happen although I have no idea what can be done so that people will feel the effects fast enough to stop the suffering. I hope this is just a problem in the north of China and that the party is trying their best to solve it however only time will tell. I hope you are all with your families and that you are having a better time than I.