This depiction of a communist society is by no means new; it has existed since ancient times. In China, we have the “Great Harmony” chapter of the Book of Rites, Tao Yuanming’s “The Peach Blossom Spring,” and Kang Youwei’s “Book of Great Peace.” Abroad, there is a wealth of literature produced by French and British utopian socialists—all of which belong to the same vein.

According to the author, in a communist society everything is perfect: there is no darkness, no contradiction; all problems are solved, and opposites have been eliminated. Society would thereby come to a halt, with both its qualitative nature and its quantitative size supposedly remaining unchanged forever. Social development would thus come to an end, leaving society frozen in one unchanging state. In doing so, the author discards a fundamental law of Marxism—that any phenomenon, including any human society, is driven forward by struggle between opposing forces and by internal contradictions. Instead, the author espouses metaphysics, abandoning the great doctrines of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.