[Marxism] Class consciousness of Chinese Students and intellectuals

[Prem K Govindaswamy <govi0006@xxxxxxx>]

        Marxists often view Tiannamen Square as the hoped for political
revolution to turn China into a true workers democracy, ousting the
bureacracy. However, Marxists need to analyze the consciousness of Chinese
Students/Intellectuals. In doing so, Socialists will have to change some of
their perceptions about Tiannamen Square. Chinese students and
intellectuals have absolutely no class consciousness, and in fact are the
wannabe capitalists. This is true about their participation in Tiannamen
square. Thus we understand the Jung Changs of China. This assesment has
vital ramifications what Marxists have to do and how to do political and
social work with China, in order to prevent them from the tragic fate of
the USSR. It tells us that for a strategy on which sections of Chinese
masses to socially and politically engage, that Marxists should mostly
avoid spending limited resources and energy on Chinese students and
intellectuals.
        Chinese students are children of the privelaged layers of China, mainly
the bureacracy, much more so than it already was under Mao. The economic
"reforms" of Xiaping, which most students and intellectuals wholeheartedly
cheered, impoverished the Chinese workers, and later the peasants, making
it impossible for the average Chinese masses to get a higher education.
This filters Chinese intellectuals and students to exclusively the most
privelaged layers. Most of the intellectuals and students have never
traveled out to the countryside, poorer workers' areas of cities, or
industrial sectors. Many have no relatives, friends, or accquaintances with
the peasants, workers, or lumpen. They have absolutely no awareness or care
of the conditions of the masses, nor solidarity.
        The consciousness of the Chinese students and intellectuals is very
negative. Most of them aspire to be capitalists, identifying with the world
bourgeoisie. The students admire and desire to be like American capitalist
buisness students in every way. They actually want to be completely
oblivious and unconcerned with the welfare of society and the world. They
actually aspire to have the same sickeningly greedy destructive attitudes
of the US capitalist students. Many probably even admire the flashy
personal habits and vices of the US capitalist students. They are the new
proponents of capitalist vagueries and oversimplifications such as "oh
communism just doesn't work because people are inherently bad and selfish
by nature" (said w/ the typical capitalist evangelical glazed over eyes).
Thus they view anything that hints a social and political resonsiblity of
society as a tiresome burden and a aruduous chore, with utter disdain. A
clear example can be seen in an article posted by clintonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


Unease over this gap has become particularly apparent among university
students, who often chafe at their required classes on Marxist theory. A
prominent university's party secretary recently told a visitor that his
school had resolved the problem by simply teaching traditional Chinese
philosophy during the time set aside for the study of Marxism.

                                        thus we can see how chinese
intellectuals and students actually have come to hate anything dealing
social and responsibility, welfare, or duty. They're much more interested
in emulating US capitalist students, with all their flashy habits.
        This understanding of Chinese students extends into their role in
Tiannamen square. The students were demanding more of the policies of
Xiaoping, and were thus demanding more impoverishment for the Chinese
workers, and later peasants. That the workers were able to come out in
solidarity with for such undeserving specimens shows the exemplary
solidarity of Chinese workers. It moreover shows that Marxists have to
target for engagement exclusively the workers and peasants, and should not
waste their limited resources and energy on Chinese students and
intellectuals, as almost any efforts would prove completely futile and
would be lost on these wannabe capitalists. There is also the very real
danger that they would turn in Marxists spreading revolution to the local
authorities. I seriously would be extremely overjoyed if anyone could prove
my assertion wrong.


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