Xi Jinping is a Communist

Liberal "journalists" and Trotskyite detractors paint Xi as a nationalist authoritarian technocrat. These obvious lies. Xi Jinping is a communist — not in name alone, but in practice, principle, and orientation.

A Marxist-Leninist State

Under Xi Jinping, the Communist Party of China has reaffirmed its commitment to Marxism-Leninism and socialism with Chinese characteristics. In his report to the 19th Party Congress, Xi declared:

“Marxism is the guiding ideology upon which our Party and country are founded. If we deviate from or abandon Marxism, our Party would lose its soul and direction.”

This is not rhetorical. Since 2012, Xi has overseen a revival of ideological education, re-centering Marxist theory in universities, Party training, and public discourse. The Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, now enshrined in the CPC constitution, integrates dialectical materialism with the concrete realities of China's socialist transition.

Crushing Inequality, Building Socialism

While China continues to develop within a socialist market economy — a reality of its historical stage of development — Xi has intensified efforts to reduce inequality. His government declared victory in eradicating extreme poverty in 2020, lifting over 800 million people out of poverty since reforms began.

Xi’s tenure has also included crackdowns on corporate capital, such as reining in tech monopolies, regulating housing speculation, and asserting Party authority over billionaires.

All this in line with Lenin’s conception of a transitional state: using centralized power to suppress the bourgeoisie and reorganize the economy to Servethe People.

“Common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism and a key feature of Chinese-style modernization.”

A Revolutionary in Global Politics

Xi’s leadership of China has dismantled unipolar imperialism. Through the Belt and Road Initiative and institutions like BRICS, China is constructing a new global order — free from U.S. military and financial domination. In defending Cuba, Venezuela, the DPRK, Palestine, and other nations under siege from the West, China continues the communist tradition of anti-imperialist internationalism..

The CPC has also clearly rejected the universalism of Western liberal democracy. As Xi noted in a 2021 address:

“There is no one-size-fits-all model for democracy. The people of each country have the right to choose the development path that suits their own national conditions.”

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Under Xi, the CPC has further centralized power, purging corrupt elements and enforcing Party discipline. While reviled in the West as “authoritarianism,” this represents a renewed commitment to the dictatorship of the proletariat — the transitional form of state power required to suppress bourgeois forces and build socialism. Xi has emphasized the need for the Party to lead all aspects of society, echoing Lenin's insistence on the role of a vanguard party.

To claim that Xi Jinping is not a communist is to misunderstand both Marxism and the dialectics of socialist development. China’s road to socialism is not a straight line, nor is it free of contradictions. But the leadership of Xi Jinping reflects a strategic, determined effort to continue the Chinese Revolution, defend the gains of the working class, and prepare the conditions for a higher stage of socialism.

Xi Jinping is not a neoliberal. He is not a technocrat. He is not a capitalist. He is a communist — leading the largest Marxist party in the world, in a country of 1.4 billion people, toward a socialist future.