Chinese scholars have been publishing papers since the 1950s regarding how the capitalist West “lies” – but of course – the Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1991) often got in the way of objectivity. China under Mao Zedong supported Stalin and opposed the Khrushchev betrayal of Stalin and set itself in opposition to the revisionist USSR (in return, the Soviets painted China as “Trotskyite” and so the madness went on). During the 1960s, the PLA and Soviet Red Army routinely clashed in the border areas – with Chinese troops turning-up to fight carrying pictures of Lenin and Stalin. China’s post-1979 turn toward economic determinism further trained its relationship with the USSR – as did the Vietnamese invasion of “Kampuchea” (between 1979-1989) – formulating (with collusion from the USSR) the myth of the “Killing Fields” – as a means to prevent the spread of Chinese Communism outside of the geographical boundaries of China. I mention all this as the Trotskyites are past-masters of the “lie” and know how to sow “derision” between (and within) the working-class – thus rendering it weak, contradictory, and unable to effectively resist the continuous pressure imposed by the capitalist system. All we can do as individuals is operate from where we find ourselves in the general unfolding of history.
