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On 10/2/14 4:59 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
http://louisproyect.org/2014/10/02/the-hong-kong-protests-and-the-conspiracist-left/
An interesting comment that just turned up.
I don't know that there is a real reason behind the protests. There
are probably many. This has been unraveling since 1997. Universal
suffrage is one reason. China's heavy-handed influence, its interference
with education in Hong Kong, bribes that have corrupted a previously
clean civil service, favoritism toward billionaires have all been
mentioned by students in interviews.What's more I've been hearing these
complaints since the handover. Censorship from China has hung over Hong
Kong libraries for instance. China has also been accused of making
Shanghai its model city at Hong Kong's expense. Students have much to
protest.
The universities of Hong Kong involved are considered world class,
students and faculty. Many students and faculty probably have at least
one great-grandparent or two from Mainland China who fled the
holocaust-like famine and the cultural revolution. The majority of those
refugees were cantonese peasants. To see these students slandered by
some pro-China, pro-Russia lowlifes with a grudge against this
NED-thing, which nobody in Hong Kong has ever heard of before, is
outrageous. Claims of foreign interference in a city of immigrants
that was a British colony for 155 years, a famous cosmopolitan gateway
to China and home to many billionaires (some originally from Shanghai
families) is laughable. The city is filled with influences , as were
many Chinese cities, until war and xenophobia and explosively bad
politics got in the way. What these conspiracy theorists don't point out
is that _more_ money than anyone can possibly account for probably goes
under the table, by _way of Mainland China_, which by the way is
communist mostly in name, IMHO. That sort of corruption eventually
destroys infrastructure and whatever social services are left.
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