The current constitution of china has been created in 1982 and has been
revised numerous times since. The constitution includes many civil
rights such as free speech, press, worship, the right to trial, and the right to own private property. However, in practice this constitution
has widely been disapproved. The government has done nothing to ensure that the new laws followed the constitution. The judicial system does not review the new laws set in place.
China actually is not all that communist now a days. They seem as if they have drifted away from true marxism after the Cultural revolution in 1976. True communism nothing is owned by a single person but is rather shared with the community. For example, in China everything is at least partially privately
owned. Whereas the Chinese Communist party under the Chairman Mao owned almost every factory in the nation.
China is becoming more of a capitalist country than it is a communist, for example the government owns every inch of the land in China. So as you can see the
idea of "True communism" has been long gone in China.
Religion in China
Four major religions in China
1) Buddhism - 13000 temples,
- 33 Buddhist colleges
- 50 publications in China
2) Taoism - 1500 temples
3) Islam - +3000 mosques
- 18 million believers
4) Christianity - 18000 priests
- 12 religion sites
- 10 million Christians
Now you may ask yourself how are these religion groups influenced by Communism in china.
Well
the communist party in china has gone through many changes on views
pertaining to religion in china. They party went from wanting the
support of the religious leaders to extremist persecution in the
Cultural Revolution. And so in the 1980's the state decided to monitor
the religious groups. The
views of the Party on religion, from policies and actions of the last
ten years, can be divided in two approaches: religion as a “threat” and
religion as “social capital." These different views are difficult to
identify because the communist party worried of giving the impression of
division internally. We can assume that at this moment the party's
position on religious affairs shows signs of moving toward the “religion
as capital” approach.
So, is china moving away from communism and more towards capitalism?
This is a well-done and very interesting blog post. I feel as if China isn't really a communist nation anymore, and is really moving toward becoming a capitalist nation. It's interesting that close to 50% of the Chinese population is Non-religious communism doesn't usually support religions, and is even anti-religious. I think that China isn't a true communist nation anymore.
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