[Marxism] Commentary: Soros Falls From Grace In Central Asia

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from Rick Rozoff


http://www.newscentralasia.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1122


News Central Asia (Turkmenistan)
January 7, 2005


Central Asia Speaks: Soros Falls from Grace in Central
Asia
Commentary


-Asserting that there is only one acceptable model of
democracy and that is American model and you better
take it or we would shove it down your
throats...propagating that regime change is the only
medicine for all the ailments of a society, teaching
that everything that exists must be demolished to
build something else, chiding that nothing is right
and everything is wrong is not really the most
imaginative way of serving any people, least of all
the Central Asian people who have a collective
heritage of thousands of years of civilization.


After Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan has also
voiced concerns about the activities of Soros
Foundation. This completes the quorum.

In rapid sequence, Uzbekistan kicked out Soros,
Kazakhstan issued a back-taxes notice that is likely
to lead to closure of Soros offices, President Askar
Akayev of Kyrgzstan whipped Soros for interfering in
the society and President Imomali Rakhmanov of
Tajikistan told his cabinet of ministers that he
considered Soros a destructive presence for the
society.

Why has the entire Central Asian region united against
Soros, a supposedly philanthropic organization engaged
in grand and noble projects of absolutely the greatest
possible value to the primitive and barbarian
societies of Central Asia?

Here are, very briefly, some of the reasons:

One of the declared aims of Soros Foundation and its
downstream organizations is to create ?Civil Society?
in Central Asian nations. This noble intention is
quite possibly based on the assumption that Central
Asia is inhabited by barbarians and uncivilized
creatures ? ?natives? in short.

While treating the Central Asian people as
?uncivilized? creatures and their societies as
?uncivilized? societies, it would be useful to
remember that Central Asians have no genocide on their
hands. Neither Jews nor Native Americans - ?Red
Indians? of not long ago? - came to the verge of
extinction at the hands of Central Asian people.

One must also not forget that while African Americans
- is *nigger* too embarrassing now? - were struggling
for their basic rights, guests of any colour and
religion were welcome in any Central Asian yurt. Then,
as now, black, white, brown and yellow people broke
bread in the same bowl in this uncivilized part of the
world. The Silk Road never had a colour-coded social
order.

None of the Central Asian countries are civilized
enough to subject their visitors to cavity searches.
People coming from different parts of the world are
not photographed and fingerprinted on arrival. How
uncivilized!

They have still not asked a visiting defence minister
of a friendly country or a serving general of a
?coalition partner? to take off their shoes at the
airport, an uncivilized inhibition that needs to be
discarded.

Apart from these obviously uncivil traits, there are
many other drawbacks in the Central Asian societies.

The cradle to grave social network that is not
dependent on the state is something that needs Soros
treatment. There is virtually no need for old peoples
homes because, by default, the youngest child looks
after the parents until their death. It is not a
burden to them; it is honour and pleasure - the
ability to return something of the love and care they
got in their infancy and childhood. It is a clear
violation of civil rights. A civilized society must
send its young to the boarding school and the old to
the old peoples home. Very young and very old are a
hindrance to the process of civilization.

Central Asian women, especially from rural areas, have
the nasty habit of covering their bodies. This
practice encroaches on the civil liberties of men. It
is irritating to see that only hands and face are
naked to the visible eye, I mean, visible to the naked
eye. People cannot develop their full potentials in
societies where acres and acres of female flesh are
not exposed to the environment ? and to the lusting
eye.

Unmatched hospitality of the Central Asian people is
another source of concern. A civilized society is
where Sikhs can be mobbed and killed because they
resemble Muslims in appearance, where mosques can be
desecrated and burned, where people can be knifed if
they are coming out of a prayer house of that ?other
religion?, where it is not safe to travel in the
subway, where jail wardens look the other way when
inmates beat and asphyxiate someone for being ?weird?,
where hardly anyone knows who is living next door and
where skinheads can proudly practice racial
discrimination.

The trouble is that like most things American, Soros
approach is based on a monochrome template: Black and
white, American society and uncivilized society,
democracy or dictatorship, with us or against us.

The real world, the world where Central Asians live
along with most other nations, is not a cheap joke of
a bored God. It is not black and white. It is fully
alive in all the colours that anyone can perceive or
imagine.

Asserting that there is only one acceptable model of
democracy and that is American model and you better
take it or we would shove it down your throats, saying
that only a certain way of dressing and eating is
acceptable in the civilized world and you must do it
our way or we would force you to do it, propagating
that regime change is the only medicine for all the
ailments of a society, teaching that everything that
exists must be demolished to build something else,
chiding that nothing is right and everything is wrong
is not really the most imaginative way of serving any
people, least of all the Central Asian people who have
a collective heritage of thousands of years of
civilization.







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