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Anonymous ID: f93748 May 4, 2021, 12:24 p.m. No.13581576   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1602

May 4th is a Commie Holiday. They take everything and pervert it and Mirror things so people Praising May the Fourth be With You are giving energy in a way to the CCP.

 

A hundred years ago this month, on May 4, 1919, demonstrations erupted in China as students, primarily from Peking University, poured into Tiananmen Square to protest events half a world away, where western nations – primarily Britain and France – meeting in Versailles decided to transfer the colonial possessions of a defeated Germany in Shandong province to Japan, which like China was an ally in the anti-German war, rather than returning them to China.

 

The May 4th demonstrations changed China. While they were touched off by the conference held to mark the end of World War I, the protests were actually a loud call for reform in China. In a matter of weeks, the protests were elevated to the status of a movement. Luo Jialun, one of the principal student leaders, wrote in an article that the spirit of the May Fourth Movement was a challenge to arbitrary authority.

 

Post-May 4, the students organized themselves. On May 5, the Peking University Student Association was established with Duan Xipeng elected as president. The following day, 3,000 representatives met in the Peking University auditorium and formed a citywide Student Union, again with Duan elected president.

 

These events were occurring at a time of intellectual ferment in China. The monarchy had been overthrown in 1911 but warlords, not elected leaders, had taken over. There was a proliferation of journals and much discussion of the need to modernize, in part by writing in the vernacular to make it easier for people to have access to the Chinese classics.

 

There was much concern that the country was being held back by its traditions, in particular, by Confucianism. Many felt that it was time to say goodbye to Mr. Confucius and to welcome Mr. Science and Mr. Democracy.

 

A century later, Mr. Science is well entrenched, with China having landed a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. However, Mr. Democracy is unwelcome, with the Communist Party insisting on a permanent monopoly on power.

 

Nonetheless, the party has hijacked the May 4th Movement, claiming credit for it. Coming as it did two years after the October Revolution in 1917, which resulted in the birth of the Soviet Union, it seemed plausible to argue that Marxist ideas had spread into China and influenced student activists of the time.

 

Last week, Xi Jinping delivered an hour-long address in which he hailed the May 4th student leaders as patriots who opposed imperialism and feudalism. However, he told today’s students that their job was to “follow the instructions and guidance of the Party”. Patriotism now means obedience.

 

Student protests before 1949 were almost invariably deemed as patriotic. Now, they are suppressed. The 1989 Tiananmen protests were labeled counterrevolutionary.

 

Party leaders who sympathize with student protesters suffer severe consequences. Hu Yaobang, then party general secretary, failed to crack down on widespread student protests in 1986 and was forced to step down in 1987.

 

https://www.ejinsight.com/eji/article/id/2129673/20190507-how-the-communist-party-hijacked-the-may-4th-movement