(source: shubelmorgan.wordpress.com) Here is an anecdote provided by a reader. In the early 1970’s the reader was a member of one of the new communist movement formations. This formation held firmly to the line that most amerikans were “workers,” were exploited, and were thus absolutely fine revolutionary material. So the reader and her comrades in this formation held down factory jobs amongst this white “working class” and brought all their revolutionary fervor to bear on disabusing these “workers” of the “false consciousness” that kept them ideologically chained to the wage slavery of capitalism. She wasn’t having much luck. Nor were her comrades. Truth be told, they were having no luck at all. The reader’s organization upheld socialist China. A delegation from the organization went to China to express their solidarity and to learn what they could that would be helpful to them in making revolution at home. This was an exciting development for the reader, especially as she had a close comrade who had been chosen as a delegate for this mission. When the delegation returned from China, the reader contacted her comrade immediately. She asked what main thing the returning comrade had learned from the Chinese. The comrade replied without hesitation, “That the American (sic) people are a great people.” The reader recalls the immense satisfaction this answer gave her. Surely, she thought at the time, the Chinese, who have accomplished a revolution and are now accomplishing a Cultural Revolution, must know a thing or two about class analysis. The Chinese communists must, she thought, know something that had not yet become readily apparent to her in her couple of years of working diligently among the white “masses.” So her comrade’s reply reinfused her with revolutionary dedication and she marched back to work beating her head into further ideological concussion on the brick wall of the parasitic amerikkkan labor aristocracy for another year or so. We can present this anecdote unabashedly because we’re using it for illustrative purposes only. Unlike many today who call themselves “communists” or even “Maoists,” but who are immune to the very fundamentals of science, we don’t use anecdotal “evidence” to “prove” anything. Nothing of what we say here hinges on whether this anecdote can be proven to be a “true story” or not. It merely illustrates quickly the outlines of the points we’ll take up. On the other hand, to serve even as a reasonable illustrative device, an anecdote must have some recognizable semblance of truth – it has to be the kind of thing that could have happened, given what we know. And our anecdotal example here obviously has that attribute. That “the American (sic) people are a great people” was in fact the overwhelmingly predominant line of the Chinese communists at the time. If there were any all round Maoists-Third Worldists in China at that time, their line was certainly not public. That Maoism-Third Worldism was not the predominant Chinese line is not surprising. There were no Leninists in Marx’s time, no Maoists in Lenin’s time. Had Maoists-Third Worldists predominated in China, the delegate would have learned that the amerikkkan people are a parasitic people, as are all the first world peoples. And if Maoism-Third Worldism had predominated amongst first world communists, they would have known about these parasite nations already. But that’s not the way things were. So our anecdote does serve to show the kind of political interchange that might well have actually occurred between the Chinese communists of the time and our reader’s comrade. And it shows how fucked up much of the international communist movement has been in the labor aristocracy area of the theory of the productive forces. And that’s what we want to talk more about here, next.
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