Communism, China, and the ‘Quit the Party’ Movement

Politicians, scholars discuss communism and China at book launch and forum

Adapted from a Chinese Communist Party Cultural Revolution-era poster emblazoned with the words "Smash the Old World, Establish the New World." The Epoch Times

TORONTO—On May 5, 1818, a man was born in Germany whose ideas decades after his death led to the mass destruction of lives and societies.

Exactly 200 years after this date, a statue of Karl Marx given by the Chinese communist regime—itself responsible for the death of nearly 80 million people—was erected in Trier, the city of Marx’s birth, amidst great controversy and protests by victims of his communist ideology.