Communists Embrace In-The-Black Over Red Book as Party Is 90
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For a 90-year-old, China’s Communist Party is hanging with a young crowd.
The organization that has ruled China since Mao Zedong’s forces won a civil war in 1949 added 1.24 million university students as members last year, an 8.2 percent increase from 2009. Founded 90 years ago today to build a socialist Utopia for the laboring classes, the party has become a ticket to elite jobs in government and state-owned businesses that offer security, power and a path to wealth.