Re: [Marxism] zizek on tibet and china

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Flewers
<rfls12802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I highly doubt that China will become a liberal democracy. There may be more
>  freedom for the intellectual, especially within the less obviously
>  politicised sciences, but not intellectual freedom, especially within
>  sensitive political areas. One of the main targets of the anti-Chinese
>  chauvinism that will be whipped up in the USA and its allies when
>  competition really kicks in will be this lack of democracy -- and it will be
>  our Decent leftists and liberals who will be in the van of this, the lot who
>  have already shown their colours over the Balkans and Iraq. The Hitchenses
>  of this world will be the new McCarthyites. Of course, at the same time,
>  wherever deemed necessary by our rulers, democratic rights, especially for
>  the working class, in the USA and its allies will come under attack, all in
>  the name of 'defending democracy'.

I think this is a dangerous argument that you are making. While
bourgeois democracy is far inferior to genuine socialist democracy, it
is usually better than authoritarianism, and should be defended by
Marxists.when the alternative is authoritarianism or dictatorship --
even if that alternative is a populist authoritarianism.

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