Re: Chinese Demonstrators Raise Mao

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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While I think it is greatly to be welcomed that Mao is
appearing again as a political icon for demonstrators in
China, I cannot help but note with a feeling of disquiet the
way that corruption is equated with 'foreign influence',
rather than with political factors relating to class, party
and ideology. The sort of nationalism reflected in the
quoted phrase below really does not inspire me:

 "Western ideas were not allowed to infect the Chinese
populace."

Does this "infection" also refer to such European thinkers
as Marx and Engels, amongst others? I was one who was hoping
that the future revolutionary renewal in China would
represent an advance on some of the more quaint notions of
Maoism, while building on its undeniably solid elements.

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CB: Maoism did not include the ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin in the category
"Western ideas" as used above. See "On Contradiction" and "On Practice" , for 
example.

Also, it is well established since Lenin, that "nationalism" in the ideological
arsenal of a national liberation movement against imperialism is not necessarily
anti-Marxist or anti-proletarian internationalist. The issue of "foreign 
influence" in
the form of imperialism is a class issue.

CB