(source: shubelmorgan.wordpress.com)
It is over 30 years now since the revisionists slaughtered socialism and restored capitalism in China. We have just concluded a section of this series that exposed one of the primary ideological weapons used against the Chinese people in accomplishing the murder of socialism in the People’s Republic – the international theory of the productive forces powered by the first world labor aristocracy. We saw there that even otherwise genuine Chinese Maoists, indeed, most of China’s best Maoists, were accomplices to this despicable crime against socialism and the international proletariat. Most of China’s best Maoists were complicit in ideologically disarming the Chinese masses in the face of imperialism’s fusillade of first worldism.
It’s critical that this process of ideological disarmament be understood with absolute clarity. So let’s go over it again.
Most of the best Chinese Maoists promoted the first world labor aristocracy as oppressed and exploited, and thus as class allies of the international proletariat. But China’s educated elites, those with the influence to accomplish ideological dissemination, knew from experience and study that this class analysis of the first world was a lie. Much of the Chinese Communist Party itself had roots in these educated elites, who already knew quite well that the first world populations were, across the board, among the richest people in the world. So the lie of first worlders as exploited promulgated by the CCP constituted winking at parasite wealth by denying it.
And this denial flashed the green light for the further cancerous spread of the international theory of the productive forces amongst the Chinese masses. What could be the problem with wanting to live at the economic level of “ordinary” first worlders if those good folks were themselves “downtrodden” and “exploited”? In denying first worlder wealth, and its bloody imperialist origin, most of China’s best Maoists were with a wink and a nod giving a deadly thumbs up to imperialism’s false promise of parasitic living – the amerikkkan way of life – for the world’s exploited majority. It was a deadly thumbs up for the bullshit explanation of first worlder wealth, the international theory of the productive forces.
This constituted the ideological disarmament of the Chinese masses. The pernicious offering of the international TOPF, recall, is essentially this: forget class struggle and you can live like first worlders, like amerikkkans. There is not even an ideological hair’s breadth between that reactionary formulation and “to get rich is glorious.” Even China’s best Maoists had been marketing the first formulation among the Chinese masses for years by winking at parasite riches. Is it any wonder that the second wasn’t then a terribly hard sell?
Now, we’ve gone over this process of the international TOPF contributing to the destruction of Chinese socialism because grasping that inglorious process is of paramount importance if the worldwide struggle for socialism is to be victorious. Grasping that inglorious process is, in fact, of such paramount importance that communists have had to define an entirely new stage of Marxism, Maoism-Third Worldism, just to take account of and combat the first worldist ideology which fuels the international TOPF. You want 21st century communism, you got it: Maoism-Third Worldism.
The best Maoists in China were then the world’s most advanced communists. And without doubt worldwide there were few if any communists then doing any better on the question of the first world labor aristocracy and the international TOPF. The international proletariat knows that the Chinese Maoists were absolutely no worse on this most critical issue than the rest of the ICM, which was universally and totally fucked up when it came to first world parasitism.
But, and this brings us right to today, the international proletariat reserves the right to expect more of the advanced. Because they’re positioned to see further. The international proletariat honors the advanced with its greater expectations.
And right now the international proletariat has, 30 years on from the bitter defeat of Chinese socialism, a primary burning concern on which its expectations turn. And the high expectation in regard to that burning concern which the international proletariat currently places on today’s advanced communist forces is that those forces must be fighting with every muscle and bone to not ideologically disarm their own proletariats and oppressed nations with precisely the same fucking imperialist lie of the international theory of the productive forces as powered by the first world labor aristocracy that, uncombatted as it was, could probably have taken down socialism in China all on its own.
And that’s not all. The international proletariat places the expectation on these advanced forces that they constitute the advanced international leaders of the proletariat’s ideological offensive against this deadly imperialist lie, by far the most powerful weapon the imperialists have ever had in their ideological arsenal. The first task of the advanced always is to point out and lead the attack on the main enemy.
Today the international proletariat expects the Third World forces conducting people’s war to be those advanced detachments of communism. Of necessity ruthlessly realistic, the international proletariat expects little other than revisionism from those first worldist formations calling themselves “communist” while fronting for their own parasite constituents. Likewise the international proletariat places no expectation other than betrayal on the Third World comprador cohorts of these first wordlists such as the Prachanda clique. (1)
But the international proletariat, in honoring the advanced Third World forces conducting people’s war, expects much more from those forces. Specifically and concretely, the international proletariat today expects of these forces, for instance, better than this:
In the US and other imperialist countries, the monopoly bourgeoisie are using all kinds of maneuvers to deflect attention from the root causes of exploitation and oppression and to push down the working class, immigrants, the youth and women. They play up and generate chauvinism, racism and fascism in order to divide the working class and to pit the people in the imperialist countries against those in other countries. They use the mass media and various forms of entertainment to conjure the illusion of democracy and deflect public attention from the most important social issues.
But the working class and the rest of the people in the imperialist countries are fighting back. There have been widespread strikes by workers, protest rallies and marches by migrants and militant street actions by the youth in various imperialist countries. We can anticipate greater protest mass actions against monopoly capitalism on international and domestic issues in the months and years to come. The current crisis of world capitalism will further worsen. (2)
As we stated, today the international proletariat expects the advanced forces to be proletarian leaders of the ideological struggle against the theory of the productive forces and the first world labor aristocracy, not leaders in peddling this deadly lie to the oppressed and exploited as does the above bullshit fantasy of an exploited first world “working class” in rebellion. Such leadership demands calling out this nefarious ideology itself, and, as we’ll further clarify in Part 6b, calling out those within the advanced forces who peddle it.
(2) http://www.josemariasison.org/jumi02/inps/speech2ilpsaus.htm
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