A friend once gifted me a beautiful hard-back book regarding the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC). It is a very colourful history full of sacrifice and hope! Furthermore, it is an elaborate history that propagates the future of humanity. I do not wish to dwell on Khrushchev’s (1956) betrayal of Joseph Stalin – or the ridicules Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1991). The workers are International and that is all there is to me. We cannot change the past – but at least we cannot dwell on it. Dialectical history ebbs and flows and that is all there is to it. Needless to say, in its early days, the CPC would liberate areas of rural China and create “Soviets” – or areas of “Free Workers”. Within these areas the peasants and workers would live freely under Marxist-Leninist reality, free of all the backward feudalism that had defined Chinese history up to that point. On occasion, particularly after 1928, the fascist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek would invade and brutally destroy these areas – forces the CPC and its followers to relocate. Mao Zedong was a guiding light in these days – but we must not lose sight of the many others (even if Mao Zedong happens to be your favourite). After the Soviet Red Army and Mongolian Red Army had entered and liberated North-East China (Manchuria) – this former Imperial Japanese area (together with all its developed industry and captured weaponry and ammunition) was given-over to the CPC (together with the captured Harry Puyi – the Last Emperor of China). This empowered the CPC tremendously (as an act of Proletariat solidarity) and permitted the liberation of the rest of China. Revolutionary history is like this. Of course, living in the West today is dangerous as the “freedom of thought” bequeathed to us by our Greek ancestors is very much at risk. Trump had two Chinese people imprisoned in the US for “sharing” the type of articles that I share with you all the time – which are readily available on the internet. What was their crime? a) being ethnically Chinese, b) caring about the truth, and c) daring to contradict US lies. It is that simple. This is what fascism looks like – and it has been elected into power in the US! We live in an age where a nefarious foreign country controls everything we say and do – and we are forced to compromise the truth. NO. The truth is the truth regardless of what happens to our material bodies. Many, many good people have been persecuted for the Cause. So be it – until there is no more capitalism to overthrow! Long Live the CPC! Thank you for the Covid-19 masks!
