Author’s Note: Whereas the 14th Dalai Lama once pontificated that Communist China would collapse due to what he mistakenly considered to be its ‘internal contradictions’,
Tag: Chinese Communism
When Tibet was Invaded by the Judeo-Christian Imagination
Who would have thought that the racist British newspaper – the Daily Mail (that openly supported Adolf Hitler prior to WWII) would have been at the fore-front of the British massacring of Tibetans in 1903-04!
Be Vigilant Against Those who Denigrate Chinese Communism
It is often left-leaning capitalists in the UK that criticise Communist China. This type of bourgeois often supports the Labour Party, and whilst living within, and supporting the capitalist system – openly attack non-European countries that have thrown-off the capitalist yoke. My view is that this is anti-Chinese racism as manifested on the left of the political spectrum.
US Support for China’s War Against Japan
Of course, as soon the Chinese people chose Communism as part of their expression of democratic self-determination, the US resorted to ‘type’, and simply re-instated anti-Chinese racism throughout their nation – instead converting their former fascist enemy of the ‘Japanese’ into their ‘new’ best friend against China (and using similar pro-Japanese propaganda to convince a more or less ignorant population that the Japanese atrocities against the West and Asia nolonger mattered):
How Japanese Martial Arts Invaded the West
The distinctly ‘fascistic’ elements of Japanese racism – defined as ‘fighting spirit’ – was imported into the West as being both ‘transcendent’ and ‘spiritual’ – and presented as an example to be followed by those Westerners interested in the practice of Japanese martial arts. Overnight a number of serving or ex-serving US Servicemen sprang-up in the US wearing the white ‘gi’ and black belts around their middle.
The Racist Rhetoric of the Pro-Tibetan Movement
This essentially ‘Cold War’ rhetoric presents the Tibetan people through a highly racialised filter, very much in the mould of WWII era Japanese militarism and fascism (which depicted the Japanese people as being both physically and spiritually superior to all other ethnic groups). It is also something akin to Hitlerism, and the notion of a ‘pure race’ and of a race of ‘supermen’.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 