After 1949, the communist regime on the mainland made May Fourth a CPC icon, but with its antiscientific backyard steel smelting, its antidemocratic, dictatorial concentration of power and its anti-intellectual persecution of the intelligentsia and eradication of dissent, it abandoned the movement's real meaning.
四九年後，中國共產黨以土法煉鋼的反科學、獨裁集權的反民主與打擊知識份子、誅除異議的反知識，將五四化約為共黨圖騰，卻失去了五四的內涵。