The Party's power under one-party dictatorship is an unchecked, absolute power. The one-party system grants the Party leader unlimited authority to treat his subjects however he pleases; a Party secretary can violate the people's freedom at will, and incidents of people's labor being unjustly seized happen every single day. The Communist Party monopolizes not only political power, financial power, and military power, but thought itself. The Party's organizational apparatus is set up and run as a government that never steps down; full-time Party cadres are government officials, and every key government post is held by a full-time Party cadre. How could such a system fail to be dictatorial, corrupt, vicious, and cruel?

In the early days of leading the Bolsheviks, Lenin directed several bank robberies inside Russia in the name of raising funds for the Party, but he squandered a large portion of the stolen money himself. He later drew up several “Party member rules” stipulating that anyone who took part in a robbery was not permitted to ask about the amount of money obtained or how it was used, which allowed him to smoothly funnel “public funds” into his own pocket. After the Communist Party seized power, a direct pipeline from the Party's coffers to the national treasury, endlessly draining the people's blood and sweat, became standard practice for communist parties in every country—this is the greatest corruption in China today. Having the top official control the money is what is called in China having “one pen for finances.” Luo Bin, chief of the budget section of the finance bureau in Shiwan District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, was the sole official responsible for revenue, disbursement, bookkeeping, and reporting; from January 1994 to May 1998, he embezzled 156 million yuan in public funds, setting a record for individual corruption since the founding of the People's Republic. A township chief in Shangcai County, Henan Province, upon hearing he was about to be transferred, rushed to sign off on more than 700,000 yuan in reimbursement receipts within 24 hours…

Over the past several years, authoritative overseas media outlets have repeatedly exposed the assets of Xi Jinping's family, and the details revealed have been even more thorough than those of the Panama Papers money-laundering scandal (by the time Xi was Party heir apparent, his family's assets already totaled 376 million US dollars), yet the CCP has shown no reaction whatsoever—like a huge stone thrown into water, it sank without even a splash. If the ruler's own family is corrupt, how can he sing the praises of anti-corruption and clean government? What an enormous lie! In this day and age, fooling the people is simply foolish.

The CCP can never, under any circumstances, genuinely fight corruption. The purpose of “hunting tigers and swatting flies” is, first, to relieve public pressure by arresting a few tigers and flies for show, in order to win back popular sentiment. Second, it serves as a tool for internal factional struggle: the corrupt officials who are exposed publicly are often casualties of internal power struggles. Even when some corrupt senior officials are executed, they show no remorse—they simply blame their own bad luck, having backed the wrong political faction and ended up in the crosshairs, because there are many others far more corrupt than they are who simply had better luck and stronger patrons and thus escaped. Small corrupt loaches become scapegoats for the great corrupt crocodiles. Without democracy, corruption can never be curbed. Genuine anti-corruption requires abolishing one-party dictatorship, dissolving or transforming the CCP, holding general elections, and returning power to the people. Only when the people themselves can oversee power can politics become clean.