[Marxism] Imperialism in 1848

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ruthless Critic of All that Exists 

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How is it "self-determining"? Was a referendum taken on the issue in
which the Chinese masses were consulted?

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CB: Maybe.  How do you know how the Chinese Communist Party
communicates with the masses of Chinese People ? Might have been a
secret vote, secret from Americans and Europeans and non-Chinese
speakers in the first place.  Did the Chinese Communist Party hold a
referendum before the 1949 revolution ?   Your question sounds like a
question that a liberal professor would ask in 1949 to give a
Euro-American liberal-"democratic" certification of the Chinese
Revolution.   "Uh , if the Chinese didn't hold a Euro-American type
election, then we cannot give our blessings that it was democratic,
sorry ". Uh fuck you white man.

You sound like a liberal humanitarian interventionist. Was a bourgeois
electoral referendum taken in Cuba to endorse and certify that the armed
struggle resulted in a 'self-determined" state power ? Did Lenin
prescribe referenda to decide whether an oppressed nation's decisions
are truly self-determining, in his theses on national liberation and
self-determination ?
Who are you ? Somebody from the White Marxist Amnesty International
checking up on the Chinese Communist government on behalf of the Chinese
People's "political rights" ? Just exactly who the fuck are you ?

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 Do the Chinese workers have
workers' councils which determine or influence policy, or elect or
recall representatives to the government?

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CB: They have a Communist Party, which is related to the Chinese
working class like the Bolsheviks were to the Russian working class, or
the Cuban Communist Party is related to the Cuban working class or the
Vietnamese Communist Party is related to the Vn People or the Korean
Communist Party is related to the Korean People. 

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It seems to me that they do not have even the minimum (highly
insufficient) of self-determination that even bourgeois democracy
provides.

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CB: What exactly does it matter what it seems to you ?  Are you Chinese
?  It "seems" to you.  Whence the source of your seeming ?  Are you in
China ?  Are you part of the white Comintern, sitting up in your
armchair, ruthlessly criticizing from afar on the Communist parties and
revolutions that actually exist ? Comparing the actual with your ideal
pipe dream of what communism is supposed to be ? Carrying the white
Communists' Burden ?




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