Four Marxist Scholars Died in Four Days During the Recent COVID Outbreak

A coffin is loaded into a storage container at the Dongjiao crematorium and funeral home, one of several in the city that handles the bodies of people who died from COVID-19 in Beijing, China, on Dec. 18, 2022. Getty Images

In the four-day period between Dec. 26 and Dec. 29, four Marxist scholars in China died one after another.

On Dec. 26, Professor He Zikun, a professor of philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, died in Guangzhou at the age of 90. His obituary stated that he had long been engaged in the study of “the history of Marxist philosophy” and “Plekhanov’s philosophy.” Plekhanov was an early Marxist in Russia.

Xu Zhengfan, a First Class Honorary Professor at Renmin University of China (RUC), died on Dec. 28 in Beijing at the age of 95.

RUC announced his death two days later, praising him for being “an outstanding member of the CCP, Marxist theorist and theoretical educator, [and] one of the main founders of the Marxist theory for the CCP.”

Since the 1950s, Xu often published theoretical articles on the so-called “socialist revolution and construction” in many of the Party’s mouthpiece media, and published several books on Marxism.

Also in Dec. 28, Lai Deyang, a famous Marxist philosopher, recipient of a special government subsidy from the State Council, and professor at Wuhan Polytechnic University, died at the age of 85 in Wuhan Union Hospital.

On Dec. 29, Yuan Jingxiong, a retired professor of Marxism at Guangxi Normal University, died in Guilin, Guangxi Province, at the age of 89. Yuan was the author of the CCP’s ideologic books, such as, “Marxist Philosophy and Contemporary Natural Science” and “Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism.”

Two other Marxist scholars died in November.

Zhao Guangwu, a famous Chinese Marxist philosopher, educator, and professor of the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, died in the early morning of Nov. 10, 2022, at the age of 91. As a professor, Zhao’s teaching focus was dialectical materialism and historical materialism.

On Nov. 25, 2022, Zheng Jiyuan, a retired teacher of the School of Marxism of Beijing University of Technology, died at the age of 88.

Marx and Satan

According to the book “Marx and Satan” written by Richard Wurmbrand, Karl Marx, who is regarded as a Marxist icon, was a Christian who believed in God and the divine in his early years. But when he turned 18 and went to college, he joined a Satanist church under the leadership of Joanna Southcott and became a follower.

Marx once wrote, “Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell.” He also vowed to get revenge on God.

Richard Wurmbrand, born on March 24, 1909, and passed away on Feb. 17, 2001, was a Romanian Christian pastor and writer. He was imprisoned and tortured by the Romanian Communist Party in 1948 for leading underground church activities. After he was released in 1964, he went into exile and settled in the United States. He is the author of 18 books written in English, including “Marx and Satan” and “Tortured for Christ.”

Target of the Pandemic

In March 2020, during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi said in an article titled “Stay Rational,” “Truth be told, pandemics only come when people’s morals and values have turned bad and they have come to have a massive amount of karma.”

He specifically pointed out that the pandemic has a clear target.

“A pandemic like the current Chinese communist virus (or ‘Wuhan virus’) comes with a purpose behind it, and it has targets. It is here to weed out members of the Party and those who have sided with it,” Li Hongzhi said.

“Behind it (the CCP) is the red Devil, while outwardly it looks and acts like a thug who stops at no evil. So now that the divine is starting to eradicate it, all who still stand by it shall perish. Those who doubt this can wait and see.”

In his article, Li Hongzhi advised, “What people should do, instead, is to repent to the divine with all due sincerity, admit to their faults, and pray for a chance to change their ways.”