Yesterday, China jailed a HK lawyer for writing words about history. In the battle over historical truth, how disgraceful that part of the British left sides with the butchers of Tiananmen 1/ ... newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
2/ ... it would be so much easier not to raise this stuff - I'd get invites to more alt-left soirées - why rock the boat? Because we will never build a Labour left with the millstone of dictator-worship around our neck
https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1478791843710124032
3/ The CPC resolution on Party history should be causing outrage in the self-declared left media - yet silence: same with Russia/Ukraine... newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
4/ The CPC has memory-holed the Iron Rice Bowl, working class consciousness , Chen Du Xiu etc in favour of a new central narrative - that the market developed the economy better than the plan, that inequality is a virtue - Thatcherism with a red flag ... newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
5/ But XJP needs more - not just the destruction of Western democracy as a mode - the destruction of "Western Marxism" as an alternative to the XJP Thought... newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
6/ If these guys win the ideological battle of the 21c not just 4/6/89 goes down the memory hole - so does our own labour history - because as Walter Benjamin said: not even the dead are safe... newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…
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