On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it is still trying to build socialism. This is a Communist Party that > tried mightily to travel a road to socialism bypassing capitalism. It > then frankly, honestly, with extraordinarily courageous self-criticism, > assessed that it was not succeeding; basically declared that its > "socialism" was not good enough; and perhaps that the material > production was not sufficient to protect China from real imperialism, > which had already conducted two genocidal wars on China's bordering > countries, had nuked Japan, demonstrating full willingness to > annihilate genocidally "yellow perils", explicitly threatened to do so, had a > world ending scale of nukes pointed at that country !
Japan was one of the Imperialist powers (perhaps even the worst of them all) that conducted genocidal wars inside China. And there are some disturbing signs that China may be turning into an Imperialist force of its own in Africa and elsewhere. Colonial oppression is not exclusively the white man's sin. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
