[A-List] A Chinese Marxism view: Problems of int'l.strategyfortoday's China

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A Chinese Marxism view: Problems of int'l.strategyfortoday's China
*	From: "Alan Maki" <alanmaki@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:alanmaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >
*	Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:05:58 -0600
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Are you the same Charles that was a member of the CPUSA in Detroit?

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No , that was John Henry :>)

How do we get around capitalism's
>abiliity to force socialism to militarize at "gunpoint" ?
Whoever answers that gets a Lenin Peace Prize or two.

>
>Onward !




>Subject: [A-List] A Chinese Marxism view: Problems of int'l.
>strategyfortoday's China
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:45:01 -0500
>
>
>Henry, my question about characterizing the SU as imperialist would be that
>I don't see where the SU was economically exploiting any colonies.  Wasn't
>there net values exported to Cuba, for example, not imported ?  The SU had
>to occupy Eastern Europe because fascism had just been there and through
>there on its path to commit the holocaust against the SU. The Soviet
>government had a responsibility to its people who had suffered so
>horrendously to guarantee no new invasion. The SU didn't set up capitalist
>relations of production in colonies. This is a key aspect of the Leninist
>definition of imperialism.
>
>So , these are my hesitations in calling the SU imperialist.
>
>I do think the militarization of the SU ,including militarization of the
>civilian society in the form of dictatorial system, was critical in the its
>fall. This is related to socialist revolution in an economically less
>developed nation, that is it has to put such a high portion of its
>production into the military, for true self-defense. However, that was
>forced on the SU by imperialism. It is the great dilemma we must solve in
>the next efforts to win socialism. How do we get around capitalism's
>abiliity to force socialism to militarize at "gunpoint" ?
>
>Onward !
>
>Charles
>
>