The Crimes · Part II — Institutionalized Crimes (1921–present)
Theoretical Framework of Part II: The Seven Transformations of the CCP Party-State
Part outline (V1.5 final)
Theoretical Framework of Part II: The Seven Transformations of the CCP Party-State
1. The power-seizing party. In its base areas it first builds a proto–Party-state — party, army, finance, intelligence, propaganda, law, and grassroots organization — and then seizes national power through war, united front work, and mass mobilization.
2. The terror-founding Party-state. It manufactures obedience through killing, purges, class classification, thought reform, and social control.
3. The fully totalitarian Party-state. It monopolizes politics, the economy, organization, information, personal identity, and the basic means of survival, binding the individual within the work unit, the household registration, and the personal dossier.
4. The self-destroying totalitarian state. The Great Leap Forward, the famine, and the Cultural Revolution show how unbounded power, distorted information, competitions in loyalty, and the evasion of responsibility drive the Party-state to injure its own society.
5. The reform-and-self-rescue authoritarian state. It releases the energies of the market, the family, and society to repair the economy while refusing the separation of powers, judicial independence, political competition, and independent organization.
6. Party-power capital and digital totalitarianism. Public assets are converted, through political power, into the wealth of privileged cliques; society is atomized; and surveillance technology drives control deep into everyday life.
7. The globally expanding Party-state. It extends the mechanisms perfected at home — propaganda, united front work, economic dependence, technological surveillance, and transnational repression — outward to the rest of the world.
The catalog of this Part unfolds by historical stage, institutional mechanism, and global conduct; cross-chapter materials connect through fact IDs and relation links to avoid duplicated, conflicting versions across topics.
Chapters in this Part (21)
The 21 chapters of this Part are grouped into five periods for guided reading (period main lines, with institutional and regional chapters listed separately · curator-approved).
Group 1 · Party-building, Seizure of Power & Mao-era Crimes (1921–1976)
Group 2 · The Party-State Machine & Institutional Plunder (1949– )
Group 3 · The Reform & Opening Era (1978–2012)
Group 4 · The Xi Jinping Era (2012– )
Group 5 · Ethnic Regions, Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan
Part II in Review — The Seven Transformations of the CCP Party-State
1. The power-seizing party. Through secret organization, external dependence, armed force, finance, intelligence, propaganda, land policy, and united front work, it contends for power, first building a proto–Party-state in its base areas.
2. The terror-founding Party-state. It establishes obedience through killing, purges, class classification, political dossiers, and mass denunciation.
3. The fully totalitarian Party-state. It monopolizes politics, the economy, the military and police, the judiciary, organization, information, identity, freedom of movement, and the means of survival.
4. The self-destroying totalitarian state. The Great Leap Forward, the famine, and the Cultural Revolution show that unbounded power breeds distorted information, competitions in loyalty, mutual persecution among the masses, and an order that devours itself.
5. The reform-and-self-rescue authoritarian state. It unleashes the energies of the market and society and absorbs Western capital and technology to repair the economy, yet refuses political competition, judicial independence, and the restraints of civilization.
6. Party-power capital and digital totalitarianism. Public assets are converted, through Party power, into family fortunes; society is atomized; and surveillance, data, platforms, and “national security” become the new instruments of control.
7. The globally expanding Party-state. It spills outward to the world the mechanisms forged at home — propaganda, united front work, economic dependence, technical standards, digital surveillance, transnational repression, and authoritarian cooperation.