Current and former Chinese Communist Party members explain their motivations for joining –

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Read more Professor Pieke said he agreed with the analogy of the CCP as “the God of a communist religion”. “The construction of a communist civil religion is part of a long-term reorientation of the basis of the CCP rule that draws on an eclectic range of sources and ideas, both Chinese and Western,” Professor Pieke said, adding the “unique contribution of a communist civil religion” normalised the party’s rule and made it unquestionable. “If successful, the communist civil religion might in the long term excuse the party from even having an ideology or ultimate mission at all. “The party...