Ideologically, the CCP monopolizes truth. The Party imprisons the people's minds with a single, unified ideology, controlling the flow of information, monitoring people's actions, and restricting their freedom. The Communist Party indoctrinates the people with its ideological beliefs, forcibly permeating every aspect of life, and ruthlessly attacks and destroys anything inconsistent with that ideology, all in pursuit of the so-called “new society” or “new humanity.”
Political tyranny inevitably demands absolute intellectual submission. Stalin said: “Since we do not allow our enemies to have weapons, why should we allow them to have ideas?” In this way people are reduced to the walking dead. Where the line between black and white lies, what distinguishes a deer from a horse—on all such matters, only the Party's word counts. The CCP's ideology demands inner obedience; otherwise one risks being accused of “waving the red flag to oppose the red flag.” The Party must establish absolute authority, and the people must never harbor the slightest doubt about its values—they must make the will of the Party leader their own will. To achieve this, every channel of communication must be severed, leaving individuals and groups alike in a state of complete mutual isolation, because once people are able to communicate with one another, the authority of the ruling power begins to waver and the halo of sanctity around it is stripped away. Under Communist rule, today's slaves are deprived even of the freedom to think; no class in society enjoys the freedom that commoners possessed even under ancient slavery. Except for the supreme ruler himself, no one's rights are guaranteed—not even those of the Party's second-in-command.
The French thinker Helvétius argued that when a government monopolizes education and thought, and serves only an extremely small group of totalitarian rulers, the inevitable result is a severe atrophy of the whole society's capacity for thought and the intellectual degradation of the nation. Speaking in Hong Kong on the theme of “Human Nature, Culture, and Institutions,” Zi Zhongyun observed that China's education system, from kindergarten through university, teaches an extreme utilitarianism that thoroughly stifles people's imagination and creativity. She warned that if this does not change, the Chinese people will degenerate as a race. Universities openly proclaim policies such as the “Three Don'ts,” the “Five Prohibitions,” and the “Seven Taboos,” continuing to cage people's minds within ideological constraints. If this goes on, how can the Chinese people not degenerate?
Communism is a product of ignorance. Wherever ignorance prevails, cunning communism finds it easy to take root. Because European workers at the time had low levels of education and were relatively unenlightened, some of them accepted Marx's communism. Once the educational level of Western Europeans rose, communism died out there. It then moved to backward Russia, and later to China and North Korea. Looking at where communism has taken hold, it is in poor, backward regions that it is most easily imposed by force. This is why Mao Zedong said that the poorer people are, the more revolutionary they become—the poor are ignorant and easy for the Communist Party to control, which makes them convenient to rule. This is the reason the CCP pursues a policy of keeping the people ignorant and blocking free speech. Helvétius said: “To imprison thought and suppress speech is to turn the people into the blind, the deaf, and the foolish; it is easier to steal from a blind man than from one who can see, and a nation of fools is easier to deceive and to rule than an enlightened one.” The CCP has subjected the whole of society to wave after wave of purges, until almost the only people left are those without independent thought, who dare not dissent and dare not innovate—submissive fools who simply obey the Party's every word. A country like this cannot possibly possess innovation or competitiveness.