#Editorial AppleDailyHK｜"Now the CCP has launched a jarring, tempestuous Hong Kong revolution and wantonly wielded its iron fists of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it is almost as if the CCP has moved its long-established methods of struggle to Hong Kong, yet in reality, this is completely different from all past sorts of civil wars and power struggles. This is a struggle against universal value. This is a fight against civilized society. And this is no doubt going to be a whole new chapter in the revolutionary history of the CCP. When the flag of the CCP flutters right on top of the Government House (who knows if it would be renamed the Red House or Bauhinia House by then), the CCP can then declare that the theory of the Hong Kong Revolution under the party’s leadership is a core component of Xi Jinping’s thought, as well as the pinnacle of contemporary Marxism-Leninism."

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"中共如今發動狂風驟雨的香港革命，肆意揮舞無產階級專政的鐵拳，看似正把中共的傳統鬥爭手法搬到香港，但本質上與過往的內戰、權鬥都有所不同，是與普世價值的鬥爭、與文明社會的鬥爭，勢必成為中共革命史的新篇章。當中共黨旗在香港禮賓府（屆時不知要改名紅旗府還是紫荊府）飄揚時，中共就可以宣佈黨領導下的香港革命理論是習近平思想的重要組成部份，是當代馬列主義的頂峯。"
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Malignant unrestrained power | Lee Yee

The Hong Kong police issued a statement the night before yesterday quoting the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department’s response to the arrest of the 12 Hongkongers. The short communication was full of loopholes. If these 12 people are still under investigation, how can the authorities be sure that they will be approved by the procuratorate for arrest later? One of the 12 people was the skipper, is he a member of the smuggling organization? If he is indeed part of a smuggling group, why was he escaping to Taiwan? Why was there no mention of the arrest of the skipper? What happened to the speedboat? Did the 12 people buy the boat hence it was confiscated?

It has been more than a month and they still could not spin a better story. The power has become so domineering to the point where they say what they want without regard for whether it is believable or not anymore.

Chinese state media reported that, at the recent Third Central Symposium on Xinjiang Work held in Beijing, Xi Jinping emphasized the need to “uphold efforts to sinicize religion, sinicize Islam and forge the collective consciousness of a common Chinese identity.” Following Xi’s “sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism,” this is another one of his latest sinicization campaigns with requirements explicitly put forward.

Both Tibetan Buddhism and Xinjiang Islam are religions based on beliefs in God or divine inspirations, while in other parts of China, most religious believers just pray to gods and buddhas for blessings. Very few people truly believe in gods, reincarnation, or life after death. If “One China” means China under the dictatorship of the atheist Communist Party, then the “sinicization of religion” denotes a false and bogus religion. A leader who can come up with the idea of sinicization of religion under atheism is enough to show that there is nothing believable about this regime, including the woven tale for the 12 arrested Hongkongers.

In the era of ancient China’s absolute monarchy, although there was no real religious belief, ancient Chinese emperors at least paid respect to ancestors and held ceremonies to worship heaven. Dictatorship began from as early as the Qin dynasty to the Han Dynasty during which Dong Zhongshu proposed the rule to respect the emperor. However, he also proposed to restrict the emperor and respect heaven; the emperor would be called the son of heaven, meaning the heavenly father was watching over. The occurrence of a catastrophic natural disaster would be the wrath of heaven; the emperor would often issue a rescript for penitence, and reflect and review to improve governance.

The atheistic CCP not only does not believe in gods but also disbelieves in heaven. Mao Zedong claimed to be a “monk holding an umbrella,” meaning that he was above the law and above heaven. He also said, “Battling with heaven is endless joy.” Therefore, under the guidance of the idea of “Humans will triumph over the sky,” the Great Leap Forward brought about a situation of “endless suffering” for the Chinese people.

However, the CCP regime before Mao the second at least would not, on the one hand, claim to believe in Marxism-Leninism, and on the other hand, bludgeon itself with such absurd theories as the “sinicization of religion.” Perhaps Mao 2.0 now possesses absolute power such that no one dares to tell the truth, resulting in comments of all illogical nonsense.

Recently, the Chinese education department was so preposterous that it blatantly falsified the Bible. The story of Jesus and the Adulteress from the New Testament was cited in textbooks but the ending of the story was distorted. In the original passage of the Bible, Jesus said to the adulteress, “I, too, do not condemn you; Go and sin no more!” The Chinese textbook, however, presents the story as: “When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death saying, ‘I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead.’” Forcing words to justify the Chinese leaders into the mouth of Jesus.

Of course, anyone who enforces the law in any society will not be a flawless person, but in a normal society, at least the law enforcers know that they are either guilty, or that regardless of religion or even non-religion, they believe that “there is a deity watching over them.” In addition to believing that “a deity is watching,” law enforcers are also restrictive in their power by the separation of powers with mutual checks and balances, as well as the supervision of the Fourth Estate. Nearly 300 years ago, the French Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu said, “Every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Power is naturally expansive and has a tendency to turn malignant. As long as there are insufficient restraint and supervision, any power will give rise to corruption. To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.”

The power we face and its extension in Hong Kong may be the most extreme power in human history. It has no restraints nor any checks and balances, and without the constraints of “heaven” from the dark ages of ancient China and the Western Middle Ages. Its “expansion and malignancy” can exceed all human imagination. Therefore, normal people can only completely and absolutely distrust this absolute power.

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〈社會主義還是人類滅絕〉非常清楚地陳述問題與解方：也就是資本主義的固有矛盾、以及無產階級革命的重要性。最後一首歌的概念上較為複雜，其概念基礎是參考德國共產主義者盧森堡（Rosa Luxemburg），她曾經說過我們的兩個選項是社會主義、不然就是野蠻狀態。但鍾翔宇則認為，現在的社會恐怕連野蠻狀態都不能維持了，因為資本主義的「生產無政府狀態」正在快速地扼殺我們的生態環境。

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相較於前面動輒牽涉到國際間反帝國主義鬥爭的格局，〈夢〉這首歌更像是鍾翔宇的自白。不同於主流媒體上時常追捧的那些家世顯赫的 ABC，他以自己身為華僑後裔的成長經驗，帶給大家一種全然不同的生命經驗，告訴大家「美國夢」真的是夢一場，是一場以中上階層的成功案例矇騙大眾的迷幻藥。