作者：周恒
编辑：李之洋 责任编辑：李聪玲 翻译：吕峰
十月初的这几天是中共建政76年的日期。在中共利益集团看来，这是一个值得纪念和夸耀的日子。他们给全中国人民放八天假，用来庆祝所谓国庆日。这当然是一个偷换概念的行为。“中国”这个国家名称已经存在一百多年，并不是中国共产党建造的。中国共产党也不等于中国。他们之所以这样做，是为了有利于统治，把爱国与爱党捆绑在一起：爱国就要爱党，不爱党就是不爱国。
在觉醒的中国人民看来，10月1日是一个悲伤的日子，是国殇日。它标志着76年前的这一天，中国人民进入了中共残暴统治的时代，是灾难的开始。土改、镇反运动（1949—1953年），三反五反运动（1951—1952年），反右运动（1957年起，持续数十年），大跃进与三年大饥荒（1958—1961年），四清运动（1963—1966年），文化大革命（1966—1976年），计划生育运动（1982—2015年），天安门六四事件（1989年）等等。每一场运动的背后，都是成千上万的人被处决、秘密杀害或非正常死亡，至于冤假错案、酷刑致残、劳教判刑者更是不计其数。这个时期，绝对是中共不把人当人的时代。
20世纪末到2012年，中共的工作重心从阶级斗争转到经济建设，放松了对人民的压制和管控。它主动拥抱文明世界，改革开放，加入世界贸易组织，经济实现了飞速发展，GDP跃居世界第二。这个举世瞩目的成就，被中共拿来作为夸耀的资本。他们企图用“执政能力强”来掩盖他们没有的执政合法性。实际上，中共的GDP是建立在14亿人低人工成本、低人权的“人口红利”之上。事实证明，只要给中国人民一点点自由，他们的勤劳、坚韧与智慧就能创造奇迹。这个成就显然属于人民，而不是属于中国共产党。
然而，这个世界第二的GDP含金量并不高。绝大多数中国人仅仅解决了温饱问题。房地产经济掏空了大多数家庭的“六个钱包”和未来30年的消费能力。大基建、房地产让中共官员及其代言人攫取了天量财富，使中国的贫富差距位居世界第一。经济的快速发展掩盖了诸多政治与社会问题，也挽救了共产党，延续了它的政权。
2012年习近平团队上台时，不少民运人士对其抱有幻想。因为习近平家族曾遭受过共产党的清洗与迫害，有人期盼他能仿效台湾、韩国，带领中国逐步实现民主化。然而现实却残酷打脸。十多年来，人们看到的是：习近平走的是毛泽东的路线。他修改宪法，取消任期限制，大搞集权和个人崇拜，清洗异己，全面左转，倒行逆施；做大做强央国企，抢夺民企，逼走外资，不讲信用，不守契约，不保护私有财产，不尊重人才，不尊重科学。中共秘密制造并隐瞒新冠病毒，致使疫情传播全球，害死数千万人！三年疫情封控，使无数人走投无路，家破人亡，经济下滑，失业率高。中共再次回到了“不把人当人”的境地。
在中共体制下，所有人都变成实现个人利益的工具。普通人一生辛苦搬砖做牛马，交着世界最高的税费却无福利可享。教育、医疗、住房、养老四座大山把人民压得喘不过气；而中共官员却享受世界级的特权。言论自由、宗教信仰自由、结社游行自由全部被剥夺。长期洗脑和谎言宣传，使大多数人丧失逻辑思维和分辨是非的能力，黑白颠倒，价值扭曲。
对外，中共疯狂撒币，换取“友邦”支持，并暗中收受回扣；同时支持一切敌对普世价值的恐怖分子。独裁者们惺惺相惜，抱团取暖，对抗民主文明世界，并对普世价值国家进行渗透，输出共产主义与法西斯主义。中共存在一天，世界就不得安宁。
不把人当人的国家不可能长久。原因有二：
一是人民的愤怒与维稳之间的矛盾不可调和。新冠疫情期间，封控三年，人民被当作猪狗一般。2022年，愤怒的人民走上街头，推倒路障，手举白纸，高喊“共产党下台，习近平下台”，掀起“白纸革命”。中共如临大敌，进行了残酷镇压与秋后算账。这场运动直接导致封控提前结束。
为了镇压异见者、民运人士、宗教信仰者、少数民族，中共打造了世界第一的维稳机构，维稳经费甚至超过军费。经济下行严重，有些地方公务员工资都发不出，但维稳经费仍逐年增长，财政被掏空。财政无法继续供养时，警察等维稳机构不得不“自谋生路”，以维稳之名骚扰民众，收取各种费用。甚至出现“远洋捕捞”的荒唐现象。扰民与恶性事件几何级增长，直至社会失控，爆发革命或政变，这是中共下台的一种可能。
二是独裁者的骄傲与世界和平秩序之间的矛盾不可调和。习近平身边已没有讲真话的人，谄媚者告诉他，他无所不能，可以“解放台湾”。这样，他的统治合法性达到顶峰，国内矛盾转移，本人也能与毛泽东并肩。然而，一旦他愚蠢地发动武统，炮声一响，生灵涂炭，中共把台湾人和中国人都不当人看。爱好和平的文明世界不会容忍，必然会帮助台湾人民和中国人民推翻中共。这是另一种下台的可能。
无论哪一种情况，都意味着中共下台，独裁终结。希望不把人当人的中共早日倒台！中国人民必将迎来自由、民主、宪政的新时代。那时，我们才能真正庆祝新中国的国庆！
A Country That Does Not Treat Its People as Human Cannot Last
Author: Zhou Heng Editor: Li ZhiyangExecutive Editor: Li Congling Translation: Lyu Feng
Abstract:This article examines the CCP’s 76 years of unjust rule, tracing its trajectory from violent political campaigns to economic exploitation and the resurgence of dictatorship. It argues that popular resistance and the global order will inevitably bring about the regime’s end, and that any state that does not treat its people as human beings is doomed to perish.
The first days of October mark the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.In the eyes of the CCP’s ruling elite, this is a day of glory and celebration. They grant the Chinese people an eight-day holiday to commemorate what they call “National Day.”Yet this is a deliberate distortion of meaning. The name “China” has existed for more than a century and was not created by the Communist Party. The CCP is not equivalent to China.The reason they blur this distinction is to strengthen their control—binding love of country to love of Party: to be patriotic is to love the Party, and not loving the Party is to be “unpatriotic.”
To an awakened Chinese people, however, October 1st is a day of mourning—a National Tragedy Day.It marks the beginning, seventy-six years ago, of the CCP’s brutal rule, the onset of a long national catastrophe.
Land Reform and the Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries (1949–1953);the “Three-Anti” and “Five-Anti” Campaigns (1951–1952);the Anti-Rightist Campaign (beginning in 1957, lasting for decades);the Great Leap Forward and the Three Years of Famine (1958–1961);the Four Cleanups Movement (1963–1966);the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976);the One-Child Policy (1982–2015);and the Tiananmen Massacre of June 4, 1989—behind each of these campaigns lie countless executions, secret killings, and unnatural deaths.The number of wrongful convictions, torture victims, and those imprisoned or sent to labor camps is beyond reckoning.
This entire period stands as an era in which the CCP did not treat people as human beings.
From the late 20th century to 2012, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) shifted its central focus from class struggle to economic development. It loosened its repression and control over the people, embraced the civilized world, launched the policy of reform and opening up, and joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Chinese economy experienced an astonishing boom, and its GDP rose to become the second largest in the world.
This globally recognized achievement has become the CCP’s primary boast and propaganda tool. The regime tries to use its so-called “governing competence” to conceal its lack of governing legitimacy. In reality, China’s GDP miracle was built upon the “demographic dividend” of 1.4 billion people—low labor costs and low human rights protections. History has shown that as soon as Chinese people are given even a small measure of freedom, their diligence, resilience, and intelligence can create miracles. Therefore, these achievements belong to the people, not to the Chinese Communist Party.
However, the world’s second-largest GDP carries little real substance. For the vast majority of Chinese citizens, life has only barely risen above subsistence. The real-estate bubble drained the “six wallets” of most families and consumed their spending power for the next 30 years. Infrastructure booms and property speculation allowed CCP officials and their proxies to amass astronomical wealth, making China’s wealth gap the widest in the world. Rapid economic growth masked political and social crises and, for a time, rescued the Communist Party—extending its life.
When Xi Jinping’s team came to power in 2012, many democracy advocates held hopeful expectations. Because Xi’s own family had once suffered persecution under the Communist regime, some believed he might emulate Taiwan or South Korea and lead China toward gradual democratization. Reality proved otherwise. Over the past decade, Xi Jinping has followed Mao Zedong’s path. He amended the Constitution, abolished term limits, consolidated personal power, purged rivals, reversed reforms, and shifted the nation sharply to the left.
He expanded state-owned enterprises, seized private businesses, drove away foreign investment, broke contracts, violated property rights, disrespected talent, and ignored science. The CCP secretly manufactured and concealed the outbreak of COVID-19, causing the virus to spread globally and killing millions. Three years of draconian lockdowns destroyed countless families, collapsed livelihoods, and crippled the economy. Unemployment soared. Once again, China has returned to a condition where the regime no longer treats people as human beings.
Under the CCP system, everyone becomes a tool for someone else’s gain. Ordinary people toil like beasts of burden, paying some of the world’s highest taxes and fees yet receiving almost no welfare in return. The “four mountains” of education, healthcare, housing, and retirement crush the population, while CCP officials enjoy world-class privileges. Freedom of speech, religion, and assembly have all been stripped away. Decades of propaganda and indoctrination have destroyed critical thinking and moral judgment; truth and falsehood, good and evil, are now indistinguishable.
Abroad, the CCP squanders vast sums to “buy” diplomatic allies and secretly takes kickbacks in return. It supports terrorists and regimes hostile to universal values. Dictators find comfort in one another, forming alliances to resist the democratic world. Meanwhile, Beijing infiltrates free societies, exporting communism and fascism under various guises. As long as the CCP exists, the world will not know peace.
A Country That Does Not Treat Its People as Human Cannot Endure
There are two fundamental reasons.
(1) The irreconcilable conflict between the people’s anger and the regime’s “stability maintenance.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP locked down the nation for three years, treating its citizens like livestock. In 2022, furious citizens took to the streets—tearing down barricades, holding up blank sheets of paper, shouting “Down with the Communist Party! Down with Xi Jinping!” in what became known as the White Paper Revolution. Terrified, the regime launched a brutal crackdown and retaliatory arrests. Yet this movement directly forced an early end to the lockdowns.
To suppress dissent, the CCP has built the world’s largest internal security apparatus, with “stability maintenance” expenditures exceeding even its military budget. As the economy declines, some local governments can no longer pay their civil servants, yet the “stability budget” continues to grow, hollowing out the national treasury. When the fiscal system can no longer sustain it, police and local enforcers will resort to “self-financing” — harassing citizens, extorting fines, and inventing charges. Absurd phenomena such as “offshore fishing for revenue” have emerged. As social conflict intensifies exponentially, the regime faces eventual collapse through revolution or coup—one possible endgame for the CCP.
(2) The irreconcilable conflict between a dictator’s arrogance and the world’s peaceful order.
Xi Jinping is now surrounded by sycophants. Flatterers tell him he is omnipotent and can “liberate Taiwan.” Such delusion boosts his supposed “legitimacy” and deflects domestic crises, elevating him alongside Mao Zedong in the Party pantheon. Yet if he foolishly launches a war to annex Taiwan, the moment the cannons roar and blood is spilled, the CCP will once again show its utter disregard for both Taiwanese and Chinese lives.
The peace-loving civilized world will not tolerate such aggression. It will inevitably aid the people of Taiwan and China in overthrowing the CCP. This is the second possible scenario for the regime’s downfall.
In either case, both outcomes point to the same conclusion: the fall of the CCP and the end of dictatorship.
May this inhumane regime collapse soon.The Chinese people will surely welcome a new era of freedom, democracy, and constitutional governance—and only then can we truly celebrate the National Day of a New China.
