9-6 The Totalitarian Machine Devours Itself: Failed Succession, Endless Enemy-Making, Loyalty Contests, and Professional Ruin

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This section raises the Cultural Revolution from a “leader’s mistake” to a paradigm of a totalitarian system devouring itself: unbounded Party power could not arrange an orderly succession and so could only manufacture enemies without end, launch competitions in loyalty, and destroy the order of law, education, the professions, and production. 9-6-1

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• 🗄 CH-009.6.4.2.05　9-6-4-2-5 Authorial argument, database judgment, institutional comparison, policy and law, and applications for public communication CHAPTER 10 The Party-State Saves Itself Through Reform and Opening (I) Using the Market to Repair the Economy, Using Opening to Rescue Its Rule (1978–2012) CORE ARGUMENT OF THIS CHAPTER. This chapter affirms the real improvements that marketization, rural reform, and opening to the outside world brought to ordinary people, while sharply observing that Reform and Opening was first of all the Party-state saving itself and “guarding the tomb” in the aftermath of the disasters of the Mao era—drawing on farmers, entrepreneurs, foreign capital, technology, and world markets to repair an economy it had wrecked with its own hands, so as to preserve the Party, protect the state, and enrich itself, all while refusing to relinquish its political monopoly. The contract system, marketization, and the “reforms” of education, health care, science and technology, pensions, and housing were called to a halt the moment they touched freedom of the press, judicial independence, elections, or responsible government. One must record at once both the prosperity the people created and the institutional boundaries the Party-state used to preserve its rule. CONCRETE ENTRY POINT. Farmers took the risk of contracting land for output, individual merchants operated in the cracks, and foreign capital and technology entered China as ordinary people created prosperity; at the same time, freedom of the press, of the courts, of elections, and of organization remained fenced off beyond untouchable boundaries. SCOPE AND CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY. This chapter includes only material directly related to “The Party-State Saves Itself Through Reform and Opening (I): Using the Market to Repair the Economy, Using Opening to Rescue Its Rule (1978–2012)” — its ideas, institutions, events, implementation, victims, and lines of responsibility. Terms used in the catalog such as “evil, terror, plunder, enslavement, deception, and crime” are openly stated value judgments or characterizations of mechanism; they must be supported by verifiable fact, and every major figure must be recorded with its source, its basis of counting, and its range. Sharpness does not mean lowering the standard; it means refusing to use neutral language to conceal concrete harm