Thread: Why focus so much on supporting China?
It's not simply a matter of liking jasmine tea and ancient pottery. It's a matter of:
1) supporting/defending socialism in general;
2) opposing imperialism and supporting a multipolar world;
3) resisting capitalist hegemony...
It's not simply a matter of liking jasmine tea and ancient pottery. It's a matter of:
1) supporting/defending socialism in general;
2) opposing imperialism and supporting a multipolar world;
3) resisting capitalist hegemony...
The Soviet Union collapsed, along with the other European socialist countries. Of the remaining socialist states (China, Vietnam, DPRK, Laos, Cuba), China is the biggest and most advanced. As such, while Marxists should support all these, China has a particular importance...
China is leading a multipolar project. It adopts a principled stance of non-interference and supports sovereign development. It stands on behalf of developing countries at the UN. It opposes wars, sanctions, regime change ops. It opposes the US-led imperialist world system...
China's support is crucially important to progressive, socialist and non-aligned countries around the world. Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, DPRK, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Algeria, Zimbabwe, S Africa, Angola, Iran, Russia, and others all benefit hugely from win-win relations w China...
For the above reasons, China is being subjected to a relentless demonisation campaign. The most terrible slanders are hurled at it every day by a Western capitalist class that wants to win public support for its strategy of containing and attacking China...
These are the reasons I talk a lot about China, and why maybe you should too.
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