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Karma Namgyal, general secretary of U.S. Tibetan Dhokham Chushi Gangdruk, spoke of the need for Tibetans to be compassionate toward Chinese and realize the problem is with the CCP. He spoke Dec. 4 in Rockville, Md. on the impact of the Nine Commentaries. (Xi Ming/The Epoch Times)
ROCKVILLE, Md.— Several activists from China and neighboring communist countries came together on Dec. 4 to discuss the impact that the book “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” has had in China and abroad. One result is that the Communist Party in China is having difficulties in recruiting new members. Another outcome is that ordinary citizens are coming to the realization that the only way forward for China is to first rid itself of the Chinese Communist Party and its corrupt culture.
Two forums were convened to discuss this serial book, consisting of nine editorials or “commentaries,” which this newspaper, The Epoch Times, published in Nov.–Dec. 2004. The hearing was held in Rockville, Md., a city 21 miles outside of Washington, D.C.
“'The Nine Commentaries' is a collection of exposes of the crimes done by the Communist Party and reveals its true nature,” said Wei Jingsheng, one of China’s leading dissidents, the “Father” of China’s democracy movement, who spent nearly 18 years in China’s prisons for advocating democracy.
Wei said that even he was not fully aware of the number of crimes by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and praised the book for “systematically” revealing this. Victims know that they have been wronged but the Nine Commentaries raises their understanding from individuals being abused (or worse) to the source, the communist system, which is the “root cause.”
The presenters at forum said the Nine Commentaries was helpful to them in illuminating their struggle with the CCP, placing their experiences in a wider context and evoking a higher spiritual awareness. “The Nine Commentaries” is really concerned with “freeing the soul,” said Professor Yanjun Sun, who was a visiting scholar at the University of Hawaii when he publicly quit the CCP in May. He sees the book as clarifying the fact that the Chinese people are not about “violence and revolution,” which is the CP way, but can “overnight” with this book “break away from the shackles of the CCP, and peacefully transition to a better society.”
Karma Namgyal, general secretary of U.S. Tibetan Dhokham Chushi Gangdruk, said watching the video version of the Nine Commentaries reminded him of how his father used to tell him stories about the true nature of the communists. “If [the communists] come all the way to Tibet, they will destroy the people, will destroy the culture, and kill the people, the land, the environment, etcetera,” said Namgyal quoting his father. Back then in the 1950s, they didn’t have the Nine Commentaries but “[the Nine Commentaries] was the collective consciousness of the Tibetan people,” he said.
Quitting the Communist Party Movement
A major consequence of the Nine Commentaries has been the Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) movement, which was born soon after. Its effect has been that at the time of this article, 64 million people—primarily mainland Chinese—have renounced the CCP or one its affiliated organizations, the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League.
