Communist Manifesto Human Rights

The Communist Manifesto, A book written and published in the second half of the 1800’s, was created by Karl Marx to depict his thoughts behind a fully communal country. This form of government appeared in China around 1920’s and by the 1950’s fully took over, covering the large country in red. Red as the Communist nations, and Red as the blood that was spilled during and after the revolution. An answer came to the people looking to protect them against the extreme and radical government; Human rights. Smitten onto paper and forged into China’s legal documents, some may view China as a country of little corruption and respect towards personal freedoms, however, that remains untrue as long as they disregard the human rights and freedoms of

Chinese Authorities targeting human rights lawyers and activists, put them in secret detention chambers, restraining them from being able to communicate with lawyers and family. Family, supporters, and lawyers, that sought for the release of the detainees, or even inquired about the cases, instantly became targets of the authorities. Through censorships and punishments, the freedom of expression has already become horrifically restricted, yet on the internet it shows to further restrict the voice of civilians. With Communism, and the mindset of not accepting western ideologies, human rights find it hard to reach the red and yellow nation. After almost a hundred years of history with human rights, China’s government still chooses to only partially express the human right, causing the people to only be able to partially express their

After more than three decades of China’s pledge to “reform and open up”, China still has little signs to removing its authoritarian government for a democratic one. A recurring fundamental human right to expression still lays dire. Already known to restrict the freedom through censorship in China, the recent years have been struck particularly hard, with the election of President Xi. In February, President Xi visited three major state media outlets, to have them pledge absolute loyalty to his party. Later that month, the prominent blogger Ren Zhiqian, had his blog of 35 million followers shut down, after making remarks criticizing Xi’s media visits. Which is curiously ironic, because In the 1990’s published papers on human rights, the constitution claimed that “In addition to the right to vote and to be elected mentioned above, citizens also enjoy freedoms of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration. There is no news censorship in China.” These were legalized documents that were suppose to represent the government. Papers that were suppose to protect the country's citizens from obstructions and corruption within the document. It is curious however to see that the party in which instilled and pledged to these rights, chose to almost even reject the existence of them. We see this type of “news censorship” a multitude of times when the press announced