Charles 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. ^^^^ CB: What you say is true, but it does not contradict the point being made here. The US had dropped a bomb on Japan , an Asian "raced" nation. This could logically contribute to China's fear that the US would more readily resort to carrying out its threats to nuke China , an Asian "raced" nation. China's decision to institute capitalist relations of production was influenced by the longstanding danger of being attacked by the US , as another factor in US threats was China's status as a Communist nation. Take a look at the related threads on Marxmail to see the issue. The issue was not was or is Japan an imperialist nation. It was that China is bringing capitalism to China, not the US or Britain (or Japan for that matter) And so, China with Chinese national characteristics is different in a critical way than an imperialist nation bringing capitalism to a colony, as when Britain brought capitalism to India, or other colonies. It is different than capitalism in China with US or British characteristics. One reason that China brought capitalism to itself was to avoid being colonized capitalistically by the US. This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
