Because the CCP now gains its legitimacy almost solely from the material wealth it has created and is communist only in name, it has to recast the past to justify the present.

• 因为中国共产党几乎纯粹是在其制造的物质财富基础上赢得了它的合法地位，而共产主义仅仅是个名字罢了，所以为了证明现在，就必须要重塑过去。