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In a speech given on Mao’s 120th birthday, President Xi stressed the need to ideologically resolve the protracted contradiction (Cohen 2014) between the current ideology and Mao Zedong Thought. This lingering paradox within the CCP ideological canon shows that what is deemed to be politically correct at any given time is temporal and strictly relative to maintaing political power. It indicates that the CCP’s ideological gaps have not been sufficiently legitimized or ‘reconciled’. Hence, they are likely to be interpreted as vacillation, which puts the Party’s ‘myth of correctness’ in a vulnerable position. This can be seen in the constant struggle of China’s ideologues to come to terms and ‘correctly deal’ with the contradictions generated by the transition in the orders of discourse (i.e. from Maoism to the current marketism). In other words, heterodoxy can (and has) become orthodoxy. The inherent irony being that it is accomplished based on ‘correct theory’ and made to appear organic – growing out of existing doctrine.
It is evident that CCP ideologies are cobbled together on demand from whatever happens to be in the historical toolbox — all to justify policies that clearly diverge from original core doctrines.
Joe Alvaro 
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 18, 2014
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