Commentary The “Red Guard logic” behind the deliberate destruction by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of much of mainland China’s market economy may be the only thing which allows the Party to remain in control of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). CCP leader Xi Jinping is going into a “controlled burn” of the private sector to stop the now-inevitable wildfire collapse of the PRC economy from sweeping away the CCP itself. It is reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution instigated by Mao Zedong in 1966, ceasing only with his death in 1976. None of this is coincidence. The Cultural Revolution was a civil war within the CCP, but with the Chinese public as the sacrificial pawns. Another civil war is already underway within the CCP as Xi and his ultra-Maoists fight to retain control. The re-emergence of the now-gentrified Red Guard elements of the CCP are driving what, for the …