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Indeed, the majority of Chinese weren’t communists — far from it, in fact. In 1929, in the industrial city of Wuxi, north of Shanghai, the Party had a mere 25 members out of a population of 100,000.

Beijing’s 21st century Marxism does not see an intrinsic contradiction within its system, as long as it fits within how China has been ruled for thousands of years.