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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hepeng, Jia

Titel

The Three Represents campaign: reform the party or indoctrinate the capitalists?

Ist Teil von

• The Cato journal, 2004-10, Vol.24 (3), p.261-275

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Cato Institute

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The newly amended Constitution of the People's Republic of China enshrines the "Three Represents" as one of the ruling theories of China. Accordingly, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must always represent the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. The Three Represents Campaign has long been considered to ensure that the Party expand its membership to include private entrepreneurs, redefine its societal role, modify its core tenets, and institutionalize its rule. The constitutional status of the slogans seems to corroborate that conclusion. The assertion, however, overlooks another side of the ideological movement: the CCP's desire to absorb capitalists into a preexisting Party line and to indoctrinate them with the Party orthodoxy. By doing this, the CCP is in fact strengthening its orthodox ideology so as to increase its authority and legitimacy.