Since 1921, when the scholar Chen Duxiu sought to save the nation and accepted the Russian Communist Party’s help to form a party, and the following year when Sun Yat-sen accepted Soviet arms to build a party army and fight a civil war in pursuit of power; since 1927, when Mao Zedong, with Soviet Communist support, resorted to killing and arson, retreated to Jinggangshan, and fought all the way to Beijing, seizing nationwide power in 1949—Mao Zedong then went on to manufacture further disasters, launching the catastrophic Cultural Revolution that ravaged the country for thirty years. Over the past century, the world has produced three great mass murderers: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. Among them, Mao killed the most people and committed the gravest crimes. Mao not only killed people; he also killed civilization. He destroyed two thousand years of Confucian heritage, desecrated Confucius’s tomb, and left a far-reaching impact. Mao has been dead for nearly fifty years, yet Confucian civilization has still not been revived. The three great mountains pressing on the heads of 1.4 billion people—Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, and the Communist Party—still await demolition.

Mao Zedong’s crimes were the gravest and his harm the greatest; he stands as the foremost criminal in all of Chinese history. His crimes must be fully and thoroughly exposed, and their poisonous legacy completely eradicated. Xi Jinping has inherited Mao Zedong, implemented Mao’s line, and blocked the revival of Confucius. Over the past decade, the Communist Party under Xi’s control has become comprehensively corrupt; no official is uncorrupt. It has been loathed and spurned by the people. Under Xi’s rule, the economy and people’s livelihoods have steadily declined. He has also spread a virus across the world, manufacturing a pandemic that has killed millions. Xi Jinping’s crimes must be fully exposed, and he must be forced from office.

After Xi Jinping steps down, should the Communist Party—boasting ninety million members—still exist? Today, joining the Party is about becoming a cadre, becoming an official; where there are officials, there is corruption. The Communist Party has long been rotten beyond redemption, foul beyond description, and long despised by the people. The Party has only one path: total dissolution and disbandment. End a century of Communist crimes; everyone should go home and start again as ordinary people.

The traditional form of the character “党” itself reveals darkness, signifying factionalism and private collusion. Before the Russian Communist intrusion in 1921, across two thousand years of Chinese history up to the Qing dynasty, no one spoke of “forming factions for private gain.” Without parties, there is no darkness; Chinese people traditionally shunned party formation. The Communist Party is a great black party. Even the Russian Communist Party has declined into a small party and no longer holds power in Russia. In China, there is even less of a market for communism. If the Communist Party were dissolved and sent home, the entire nation would surely applaud.

If there is no Communist Party, who will lead? Leaders should be produced through elections and competitive campaigning. One may form “associations” to participate in elections, similar to the “CPPCC.” The CPPCC gathers elites to participate in elections and is not yet reviled in the public mind. Multiple different “associations” could be formed to work together, attract and gather members. Members would retain free status, able to join or leave freely, and each association would nominate candidates to run in elections.

Learning from America’s two-party system is not necessarily better than China’s traditional Confucian civilization, which avoids forming “parties.” In recent years, the emergence of Trump has exposed problems within American “liberal democracy.” Reviving Confucian civilization in China may help avoid such outcomes.

Xi Jinping’s elder brother-in-arms, Putin, is facing an inevitable defeat in Ukraine. The only question is how that defeat will conclude, and whether it will affect Putin’s ability to extend his presidency in 2024. Once Putin falls, Xi Jinping will lose a major pillar of support and become isolated. How long can he still stand? Can he extend his rule again in 2027? Once Xi Jinping falls, China will undergo a great transformation—the moment for the revival of Confucius will arrive. Perhaps it will not even take until 2027.