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Hey I have a long history of reading CN’s.

Very early on there was a schism between east and west. Both the eastern and western churches changed as time went by, and the Protestant reformation split the church even further. While both exist now, it is impossible to claim they exist or believe in the same things as their founders. I don’t...

It is one of my major gripes with Leninism, tbh, and writing of purges from a Chinese context I think that the Leninist frame might be more applicable. While the church did excommunicate and purge members, it was not ideologically ‘pure’, imo.

That is a Leninist concept, where purging the party is seen as necessary to maintain ideological consistency and to maintain the strength of democratic centralism. Of course at his time a purge meant to kick people out of the party and removing them from office, but by Stalin and Mao it became...