Although the communist revolution proclaimed equality as its goal, what it actually created was an extremely unequal society in which 90 percent of the people were poor, 9 percent controlled privileges, and the remaining 1 percent abused political power.
Through a dialogue examining Mao Zedong’s personal resentment, his persecution of intellectuals, his relationship with Zhou Enlai, and parallels between modern leaders and figures from the Three Kingdoms, Seki Hei and Kumiko Takeuchi expose the true nature of Chinese Communist Party rule.

June 25, 2020
The communist revolution aimed to achieve equality, but what it ultimately created was an unequal society.
Ninety percent of the people were poor, 9 percent controlled the privileges, and the remaining 1 percent abused power.
The following is a continuation of the preceding chapter.
History Repeats Itself
Seki Hei
That is a perfect way of putting it!
Mao Zedong was exactly such a person.
In his youth, he dreamed of becoming a great intellectual.
Using various personal connections, he managed to gain entry into Peking University.
However, with Mao Zedong’s academic ability at the time, admission to Peking University was no more than an impossible dream.
Li Dazhao, the director of the university library and a fellow communist, therefore helped Mao obtain a position as an assistant librarian.
However, the students of Peking University paid no attention whatsoever to Mao, who held such a lowly position.
Many of the female students also came from distinguished families and would not even give a second thought to Mao, who came from the countryside.
Takeuchi
There can be no doubt that he was unpopular with women.
Seki Hei
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Mao Zedong’s basic way of thinking was formed through these humiliating experiences.
“One day, I will rise to power and place all of you under my control.”
When the Chinese Communist Party Congress was held in Shanghai in 1921, Mao attended, became deeply involved with the Communist Party, and gradually rose to prominence.
When he eventually became China’s supreme leader, he behaved in the same way as the emperors of successive dynasties.
First, he took women for himself indiscriminately.
He also subjected intellectuals to relentless repression.
Takeuchi
The Maoist revolution existed, so to speak, to satisfy his personal ressentiment, or resentment.
There is no sign anywhere of a revolutionary spirit burning with a desire to realize lofty ideals.
Seki Hei
Zhou Enlai was Mao Zedong’s trusted partner.
As Mao’s political right-hand man, he devoted himself to Mao until his death.
He never complained and never ran away, however badly he was bullied.
From Mao Zedong’s point of view, there could not have been a more convenient servant.
The proof is that Mao politically persecuted and suppressed Liu Shaoqi, Lin Biao, Deng Xiaoping, and others, but never once laid a hand on Zhou Enlai.
Takeuchi
He was, in a sense, like a eunuch.
It was no different from the world of the emperors of successive dynasties.
Seki Hei
Seen in that light, one could say that history repeats itself.
I published Seki Hei’s Alternative Reading of the Three Kingdoms through PHP Institute, and it becomes easier to understand today’s world leaders by comparing them with the heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
For example, I believe Cao Cao resembles President Trump.
Cao Cao was born into a family associated with eunuchs and suffered from a powerful inferiority complex.
As a result, he rebelled against Confucianism, which had effectively become the state doctrine during the Han dynasty, and expanded his power.
Trump is also, in a sense, a revolutionary.
He has overturned America’s established assumptions and astonished the world.
In that respect, I believe his way of life resembles that of Cao Cao.
Takeuchi
Who would Xi Jinping be?
Seki Hei
Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao came from a distinguished family, but his indecisiveness and lack of foresight ultimately led to his defeat by Cao Cao.
Takeuchi
He certainly resembles Xi Jinping.
Xi also comes from the Communist Party’s senior elite, and his political decisiveness is weak.
Seki Hei
It makes the comparison easy to understand, does it not?
Takeuchi
Living creatures survive by using all their ingenuity.
For example, a female redback spider will sometimes eat the male while they are mating.
That is why it is called a “widow,” but spiders repeatedly shed their skins before reaching maturity.
The male therefore approaches the female immediately before her final molt.
At that stage, the female’s body is soft, and she has not yet become aggressive.
The male places sperm on his pedipalps, pierces the female’s body, and transfers it inside.
The species reproduces through this method in combination with ordinary mating.
Seki Hei
In the case of human beings, people sometimes place their own inferiority complexes above their instinct for survival and kill or inflict suffering upon great numbers of others.
Takeuchi
Once they occupy positions of power, they can commit that kind of “evil” without the slightest hesitation.
Seki Hei
Hitler is one example.
Had he become an artist, Nazi Germany might never have come into existence.
Had Mao Zedong been admitted to Peking University, the Chinese people might never have been forced to endure such abject misery.
As a graduate of Peking University myself, I sometimes feel that I would have liked to give my place at the university to Mao.
(Laughs.)
Takeuchi
But might not another Mao Zedong simply have emerged?
Seki Hei
The communist revolution aimed to achieve equality, but what it ultimately created was an unequal society.
Ninety percent of the people were poor, 9 percent controlled the privileges, and the remaining 1 percent abused power.
It was a truly unfree society.
Takeuchi
Many Japanese people should recognize the reality of the Chinese Communist Party.
To ensure that we do not lose the information war during the coronavirus crisis, I hope that you will continue to communicate your views with even greater energy.
Seki Hei
Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, in 1962.
Graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University.
After serving as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Sichuan University, he came to Japan in 1988.
In 1995, he completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Cultural Studies at Kobe University.
After working at a private research institute, he began his career as a commentator.
He became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2007.
He received the 23rd Yamamoto Shichihei Prize for Why Japan Succeeds When It Distances Itself from China.
He has written numerous books, including From a U.S.–China “Cold War” to a “Hot War,” co-authored with Genki Fujii and published by WAC.
Since 2017, he has published photographic works extensively on his Twitter account, where they have been favorably received.
Kumiko Takeuchi
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1956.
Graduated from the Faculty of Science at Kyoto University in 1979.
She specialized in animal behavior in the doctoral program at the university’s graduate school.
In 1992, she received the Science Publication Award at the 8th Kodansha Publishing Culture Awards for That Cannot Be True! On Genes and God, published by Bunshun Bunko.
Her many other books include The Loves of Freddie Mercury.
Her co-authored works include Do Not Call “Cheating” an “Affair,” written with Jiro Kawamura and published by WAC.