Chinas Communist Party Elite Says Goodbye to Marx, Hello Feng Shui

As Feng Shui and other traditional beliefs make a comeback among top officials of the Chinese communist regime, sixty years of mandatory atheism is showing its cracks.

In the Chinese regimes ongoing disciplinary campaign, many of the thousands of officials sacked for corruption were also caught engaging in activities decidedly inimical to the Communist Partys materialist ideologyfortune telling, consulting Buddhist monks and Taoist masters, Feng Shui, and the like.

According to a Feb. 4 commentary published in regime mouthpiece Peoples Daily, some communist leaders consult neither Marx nor Lenin, but instead various masters' when they face challenges in their lives and careers.

The article criticized Party functionaries for seeking their solutions in the supernatural, accusing them of confused faith and demoralized spirit.

Such phenomena cannot be ignored. Some leaders and cadres are obsessed with burning incense, prayers, and engaging in Feng Shui. Their offices are littered with auspicious stones and piles of fortune beads.

Feng Shui, also known as geomancy, is the ancient tradition of orienting objects such as buildings, furniture, or plants in a spiritually harmonious or auspicious manner.

Though the Communist Party promotes atheism and materialism through state propaganda and education, superstitious activities are commonplace in the Party itself.

Li Chuncheng, disgraced former deputy Party head of Sichuan Province, spent tens of millions in public funds to have a Daoist master hold an exorcism for him, according to a report by regime mouthpiece Xinhua.

Zhou Yongkang, who formerly headed Chinas vast internal security forces, had his own personal Feng Shui master, Cao Yongzheng, who was also his most trusted man, according to the mainland Chinese magazine Caixin. Zhou is now under official investigation, allegedly for corruption and misuse use of power.

Other officials consult experts to help them determine the lucky days on which to begin and conclude their projects.

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Chinas Communist Party Elite Says Goodbye to Marx, Hello Feng Shui