Re: The Chinese Left

["ÁÎ×Ó¹â Henry C.K.Liu ¹ù¤l¥ú" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I only translated excerpts of the original which did include discussions on
class struggle.

Item VI of the report:

The reform and open policies of China achieved big accomplishments, but also
posed two unneglectable questions.  One is how to prevent and stop
"Westernization" and the second is how to prevent and stop "disintegration".
The most fundamental is the interpretation of present day situations and the
deflection from the question of class struggle. The seminar attendants warned
against the misinterpretation of Deng Theory as adopting the view that human
civilization has entered a peaceful developmental stage that makes class
struggle analysis passe.  As such, they no longer are talking about Marxist
politics but Gorbachev "New Thinking" politics.  Therefore they treated
tendencies to welcome "Westernization" and "disintegration" and the
anti-science, anti-human, anti government, anti-social organizations such as
Falungong with deaf ears, and did not suppress them for years and even formed
common interest with them.  They argue that the previous 30 years were marked by
error of excessive expansion of class struggle, but they now commit errors of
diluting and ignoring class struggle.  The problem if not given the highest
attention, will become extremely dangerous.

Henry C.K. Liu



red-rebel wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <SGluck176@xxxxxxx>
> To: <kominform@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:01 AM
> Subject: Re: The Chinese Left
>
> > Regarding the discussion of the Chinese "left":
> >
> > Questions - (1) Where is the discussion of the position and fate of the
> > so-called "gang of four" who were those allegedly closest to Mao, and were
> > presumably imprisoned? Where are those across China who were also
> imprisoned,
> > or worse, with whom they were politically associated? Are they dead or
> alive?
> > What has happened to them? Does ANYONE in China (or anywhere else for that
> > matter) care? And if they, any of them, are alive, what is their position
> on
> > the current politics and policies of china and the world? Do they have
> > positions? Can their positions be known? Do they have adherents in the
> form
> > of groups or individuals?
> >
> > (2) I did not see in the China "left" discussion a clear (or any!) class
> > analysis, nor discussion of the shifting alignment of class forces in
> > internal and anti-imperialist struggle within China at present nor over
> the
> > years of the the near past since Mao's death. Nor who (parties,
> individuals)
> > represents, or has represented the various class and anti-imperialist
> > positions. Isn't such a dynamic analysis obligatory for Marxists? How else
> > are we to understand what is going on there?
> >