According to the American Dictionary of the English Language, "human rights" is "the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law". Naturally there is no reason why every person on this planet should not be granted these basic rights. Human rights has become an issue to many in today's world, and is frequently monitered and reported on. Human rights has also become the cloak and reason for imperialist military intervention around the globe, most notably the U.S imperialists. It is an excuse in which the U.S rulers use to extend their colonial domination of sovereign nations whom are independent of the imperialists; be it unilateraly or with their imperialist lackeys: NATO, U.N, and E.U. And with these "human rights" credentials, they seek to obtain support not just from the right but from much of the left. Originally "human rights" imperialism was used for the U.S rulers for world support in their war drive against the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc deformed workers states. Hence, now that the Cold War is over, the imperialists need a better excuse to intervene militarily abroad: liberal "human rights" idealism to replace the red scare. "Human rights abuses" is the liberal call for imperialist war much like the conservative call for "homeland security". Given the history of the behavior of the U.S and western European imperialists, "human rights" imperialism only demonstrates their hypocrisy.
Carter's "human rights" war drive against the USSR
The U.S war cry on behalf of "human rights" to achieve its aggressive imperialist ambition is nothing new. It began in December of 1975 with the signing of the Helsinki Accords by the United States, the Soviet Union, and 33 other heads of states. The Soviet Stalinist bureaucracy's decision to sign it was another example of their capitulation to imperialist demands in favor of peace co-existence with the U.S imperialists. Their interest in signing the Helsinki Declaration, was that so the imperialists would recognize the borders of the Soviet Bloc, but disagreed with the "human rights" portion, with arguments of the issue being an internal matter. The "human rights" objective was put on the Helsinki Accords by American liberal politicians (notably Democratic congressman Henry "Scoop" Jackson) seeking to improve the image of the Democratic Party, and pressuring the republicans, then under U.S resident Gerald Ford to put forth the "human rights" rhetoric. With the Helsinki Accords, the imperialists were able to pursue their war drive against the Soviet Union, as well as establishing their Trojan horses for counter-revolution in the USSR and the deformed workers states in Eastern Europe. As a result Helsinki watch groups were set up to moniter "human rights abuses" through out the Eastern Bloc, and inform the imperialists on the issue which was then published all over the capitalist media. The result was renewed anti-Soviet and anti-Communist war drive led by the U.S imperialists against the workers states throughout the world with massive support from the right and the left.
U.S imperialism had suffered a severe and humiliating defeat by the Vietnamese workers and peasants. The U.S attempt to kill the Vietnamese Revolution resulted in the deaths of 3 million in Vietnam and almost the same number as they extended their imperialist bloodbath into Cambodia and Laos. The images of U.S troops destroying village after village, the use of napalm on people, and agent orange made many in the imperialist states and all over the world disillusioned with the U.S rulers. What they saw was a large superpower bombing an undeveloped poor country into oblivion, and the continuous young Americans returning home in body bags in a pointless and useless war. Naturally, as the U.S imperialists had slimed their own image many people no longer believed in the U.S credentials of "freedom" and "democracy" and their crusade against Communism. So naturally the U.S rulers and their cronies in the U.N, NATO, and E.U needed a fresh plan to once again build up popularity for the anti-Communist war drive. Thus, the imperialists' hypocritical "human rights" demagogy was born and has been used to this day.
"I was very convinced before I became president that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion".
Jimmy Carter, U.S President (CNN Cold War Episode 19: "Freeze" 1998)
Rarely has there been a stronger hypocrisy. Carter obviously didn't mean the blacks living in ghettos, Latinos working for slave wages, or the Vietnam War. Once Jimmy Carter took office as U.S President, he maintained connections with pro-imperialist "human rights" dissidents within the Soviet sphere, and repeatedly bellowed at the Soviets when it was known that these dissidents were imprisoned or exiled. Carter had also taken as his National Security advisor the Polish born crazed anti-Communist liberal hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski for his "human rights" imperialist crusade against the Soviet Union using their Trojan Horse agents in the Soviet bloc. Brzezinski was Carter's foreign policy advisor during his presidential campaign, and later became Carter's national security advisor during his presidency. Brzezinski had a hand in sending Carter's messages to Soviet dissidents. The pro-imperialist Moscow Helsinki Group was led by Andrey Sakharov and Yuri Orlov, and included members such as Yelena Bonner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anatoly Shcharansky, Vladimir Bukovsky, and Zviad Gamsakhurdia struggling for internal counter-revolution. They were joined by other anti-Communist Soviet dissidents: feminists such as Tatyana Mamonova and her samizdat Woman and Russia, and right-wing ultra-nationalist "poets" such as Eduard Limonov. All found comfort and a position for the U.S-led imperialist war drive against the USSR.
With Soviet dissidents publicizing anti-Soviet propaganda to the imperialist press, Carter was able to step up his war drive against the Soviet Union now that he had public support. His "human rights" slanders of the Soviet Union inflamed anti-Soviet mentality in the USA. A clear example was when Shcharansky was imprisoned after he passed Soviet military secrets to the CIA in 1977. Outside the Soviet embassy in Washington, Zionists, conservatives, liberals, feminists, social-democrats, pacifists, and bourgeois leftists formed a demonstration chanting "Free Shcharansky Now!". There were many similar demonstrations hailing the pro-imperialist "human rights" reactionaries in the USSR, particulary Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, as well as CIA agent Shcharansky. In Czechoslovakia, the Helsinki Watch group set up Charter 77 with playwright Vaclav Havel at its head. Charter 77 was a "human rights" document smuggled to the imperialists, further inflaming the imperialists' anti-Communist war drive. In Poland, things looked even more scary. Karol Wojtyla, a native of Poland, was elected as Pope under the alias John Paul II. With the blessing of the Polish Stalinist leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Pope Wojtyla visited Poland with his message for total counter-revolution, "human rights", anti-abortion, homophobia, and mixture of church and state. Polish workers (historically pro-socialist), after decades of living under Stalinist misrule and corruption threw themselves into the arms of the catholic church. From this grew Solidarity (Solidarnosc), a company union that was a front for the CIA, MI-6, the Vatican, and western bankers funding and supporting counter-revolution in Poland and in Eastern Europe. Solidarnosc had won 80% of the Polish working class, leaving 20% that were still class conscience. With the U.S and every imperialist propaganda machine ranting about "workers against Communism" in Poland, possible Soviet and Warsaw Pact military intervention in Poland against "freedom"; the imperialists had all the support they could have from the entire bourgeoisie: conservatives, liberals, social-democrats, pacifists, feminists, bourgeois leftist, etc; all rallied behind Carter's U.S military build up against the Soviet Union.
"We said to the President, 'We are not going to let you put pressure on us. This is an internal matter. We are not going to discuss the subject with you'".
Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA (CNN Cold War Episode 19: "Freeze" 1998)
At the signing of the Helsinki Accords, the Soviet Stalinists took a very weak position when continuously being addressed about "human rights abuses" in Eastern Europe by merely brushing them off, thus giving the imperialists the upper hand. Once again, all that mattered to the Stalinists was what the imperialists thought. As opposed to truly taking a Communist stance and throwing bloodshed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Korea, Vietnam, and U.S backed dictators in the Third World in the imperialists' faces and discrediting their "human rights" attacks, the Soviet bureaucrats backed down and allowed Helsinki groups to be established. Peaceful co-existence was more important to these Stalinists than defending the Soviet Union. Now, their counter-revolutionaries within the Soviet sphere were (in theory) no longer right-wing extremists, terrorists, or ex-Nazis as was during Eisenhower's "rollback" policy of Cold War I in the 1950s; but "human rights activists" and "peaceful nonviolent protesters" whom the capitalist media painted as the hippies of the Iron Curtain. The result couldn't have been better for the U.S imperialists. The hypocritical "human rights" slanders was Carter's "rollback" policy for Cold War II. The liberal "anti-war" crowd that protested the Vietnam War was now rallying behind Jimmy Carter, echoing his anti-Communist "human rights" propaganda, and supporting his military build up against the USSR. After several years, the pro-imperialist Soviet dissidents' activities became a serious problem for the Soviet authorities. The Soviets then proceeded to arrest, imprison, and exile the counter-revolutionary dissidents. The other leaderships in the Soviet sphere followed suit crushing the growing counter-revolution in their countries. While there is no doubt that the Eastern European Stalinists smashed the pro-imperialist struggle for their own reasons; however their move did save the workers states from the imperialist-backed counter-revolution, it was nothing less than progressive.
Joan Baez and Susan Sontag were among such people making their peace with the U.S rulers under Carter. Joan Baez, the Chicana folk singer and strong "radical" opponent of the Vietnam War began making her amends with the U.S imperialists as early as 1972 during Nixon's Christmas bombing of Vietnam. For eleven days non stop, this was the heaviest U.S bombing on North Vietnam during the war. She had joined a delegation to take mail to American POWs, and to report of "human rights abuses" in North Vietnam, the arrests and imprisonment of American and South Vietnamese agents. During the late 1970s Joan Baez attacked the Vietnamese Stalinist regime for creating a "nightmare" in Vietnam resulting in the "boat people" fleeing without ever taking into account the affects of over a decade of U.S bombing as the responsibility. While there is no doubt that Stalinist misrule contributed to the "boat people" fleeing, but a decade long of facing heavy bombing and invasion by the most powerful imperialist military in the world: the USA; undoubtfully contributed to economic hardships. As Carter/Brzezinski proceeded with their "human rights" imperialist war drive against the Eastern bloc deformed workers states, Joan Baez, as well as many other "anti-war" activists were flocking to Jimmy Carter's imperialist policies. In her anti-Communist song "Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev", Joan Baez criticized the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev for crushing a "budding democracy", refering to the Moscow Helsinki Group's dissolution after its members had been imprisoned. In that same song, she criticized Gen. Jaruzelski for the crackdown on Solidarnosc, and absurdly compared him to the pro-U.S Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. In that same song, she hailed Lech Walesa, the leader of Solidarnosc, and CIA stooge. Susan Sontag had also gone to Vietnam at the same time as Joan Baez also denounced the Vietnamese workers state for "human rights abuses". In February of 1982 Sontag famously and grossly proclaimed "Communism in in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of Fascism. Fascism with a human face", after the supression of Solidarnosc the previous year. Many such "anti-war" liberals would echo such calls.
With both the United States and the Soviet Union continuing to build nuclear weapons, Carter now had the USSR politically isolated in his "human rights" crusade. Carter/Brzezinski now sought to weaken the Soviets' nuclear capabilites with his new treaty SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). The Kremlin Stalinists led by Leonid Brezhnev, eager to further improve their image to the imperialists, would sign this treaty agreeing not to arm their missiles, and restricted further new programs and major reductions to their current programs. By doing this the Soviet Stalinists were jeoparizing the defense of the Soviet Union, as they have been doing for decades; placing trust in the imperialists who wanted nothing more than to see every workers state on the planet perish in a bloody counter-revolution. SALT II was signed on 18 June 1979. But six months later, the Soviets intervened in Afghanistan at the request of the new people's government against imperialist-backed mullahs. Defending the emanciptation of Afghan women, and the social programs of the Saur Revolution the Soviet bureaucracy finally would truly take up a Red cause and course of action against the woman-hating Mujahideen butchers armed by the U.S imperialists (See my page Afghanistan: In Defense of Soviet Military Action). Carter's response was ending Detente, and restricting American athletes from particpating in the Olympic games to be held in Moscow in 1980, and initiating a grain embargo against the USSR. Cooking up lies about "Soviet expansionism", he got many to believe that the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was paving the way for a Soviet takeover of the Persian Gulf's oil supplies. Truly ridiculous, but Carter and Brzezinski really believed it. From that point, Carter threatened the Soviet Union with a third world war by pointing nuclear weapons at the Soviets with a first strike intention, while still maintaining his "human rights" war drive. And just as when he launched his "human rights" anti-Communist crusade, Carter had the support of the "anti-war" liberals. While the conservatives supported Carter's anti-Soviet war drive, they felt Carter was too soft what with making the treaties with the USSR. With the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran causing massive oil shortages in the USA, Reagan would succeed Carter and continue his anti-Soviet war drive, but on a more extreme scale until the end of the Cold War.
Carter's "Human Rights" Imperialist Hypocrisy
Jimmy Carter's presidency has become a cherished era in the eyes of the liberals. His policies are seen as equal to or at least similar to those of Robert F. Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy, which is so. These liberal imperialists sought and eventually succeeded through future politicians to present the U.S ruling class as the ultimate defender of civil and human rights, thus winning back all those disillusioned with U.S imperialism due to the U.S war against Vietnam by implementing the phraseology of the Civil Rights movement. These liberal politicans are or were all members of the bloody Democratic Party. The same party the ruthlessly dropped 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan after it was defeated at the end of World War II. The same party that mobilized American chauvinism and anti-Japanese racism as a motivation for the interimperialist war in the Pacific; and locked up hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans and immigrants in concentration camps for their internal race war. It was the Democratic Party that led the the United States at the head of a U.N imperialist bloody conquest in Korea that resulted in the deaths of 3 million Koreans. The U.S bloodbath in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the starvation of Iraq for over a decade, the rape of Somalia, and the bombing of Yugoslavia back into the stone age was all the handiwork of the Democratic Party, which now portrays itself as the ultimate champion for "human rights". Yet very few liberals acknowledged this before supporting rallying to Jimmy Carter's anti-Soviet war drive.
Behind his "human rights" facade, Jimmy Carter behaved no different than any other U.S president. Specifically, he continued to give aid to extreme right-wing Third World dictatorships in his anti-Communist crusade. Carter had given support to the Anastasio Somoza's dictatorship in Nicaragua, contributed to the founding of the Contra terrorists, and provided a safe transport for Somoza to leave Nicaragua in 1979. In El Salvador, despite the constant reports of atrocities committed by the death squad regime of Maj. Roberto "Blowtorch Bob" D'Aubuisson, Jimmy Carter continued to provide guns and money to the death squads. The Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, a Catholic priest who denounced the atrocities of the death squad regime was assassinated on 24 March 1980 by the CIA. For his stance against the death squads, Romero had no support from the Vatican, much less Carter. In the case of the white supremacist Apartheid regime of South Africa, the U.N implemented a phony embargo apparently due to the racist policies. Carter would use this for his "human rights" image. The reality was that it was not in the interests of the U.S government, nor their U.N cronies to supress the strongest anti-Communist force in Africa. Arms and shipments continued under Carter. During Carter's presidency, he declared unconditional support for the dictatorship of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was installed against the wishes of the Iranian people by the USA, and overthrown in 1979. Carter also secretly supported Pol Pot's murderous regime in Cambodia after he had declared himself against Vietnam and the Soviet Union. Carter had also continued giving aid to the Indonesian dictatorship of Gen. Mohamed Suharto, after the brutal invasion of East Timor in 1975 and the policies of ethnic cleansing that Suharto's cutthroats implemented. There was also the Mujahideen butchers in Afghanistan (who hated women and looked at them as merely property) would receive U.S aid from Carter for their terrorism against the social gains of the left-wing government, and the Soviet intervention. Obviously defending America's interests was more important for the Carter administration than human rights. It is just a code term to keep U.S imperialism in business as they seek to control the resources of the world.
"Human Rights" attacks on the remaining workers states
From 1989 to 1992 as a result of decades of Stalinist mismanagement, and capitulation the Soviet Union and the deformed workers states in Eastern Europe and throughout the world fell to capitalist counter-revolution. This was a moment that represented a defeat for the working class and victory for the ruling class. Extreme proverty followed, and in many cases bloody civil wars under the new capitalist regimes. Four workers states managed to survive the bloody counter-revolution: China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. The imperialists' desire to overturn these revolutions has not the least been relaxed, but emboldened it. The U.S imperialists have two main tactics in restoring their hegemony in these deformed workers states. The first is military threat directed against China, Cuba, and North Korea. Vietnam has been singled out, as they had already repelled a U.S invasion. However, internal counter-revolutionaries receive support from the U.S imperialists. The second tactic: mobilizing the internal "human rights" counter-revolutionaries to struggle for capitalist restoration. All forces of internal counter-revolution must be smashed at all costs, and imperialism defeated. As the world has grown more idealistic, the imperialists will use the "human rights" argument as a means to extend their colonial slavery of others.
CUBA, a workers state under the nose of the U.S imperialists has thwarted all attempts by the U.S rulers to overturn the Cuban Revolution (See my page Washington's "Humanists" Target Cuba for more information). Currently, Cuba is constantly being lashed at not only by the U.S rulers, but also self proclaimed "human rights" groups like Amnesty International or Reporters Without Borders who continue to call for a "peaceful transition to democracy" backed by the USA and U.N, i.e counter-revolution from within by pro-imperialist activists like the Varela Project of Oswaldo Paya. It must be also noted that Fidel Castro also shares the blame in the emergence of counter-revolutionaries in Cuba. Running the Cuban deformed workers state along Stalinist lines, social inequality has made an appearance as well as opening the doors to imperialist penetration. On 1 September 1977, the U.S Interests Section in Havana opened when Castro decided to pursue normal relations with the U.S imperialists now under Jimmy Carter with his "human rights" policy, in exchange for a Cuban Interest Section in the USA. The U.S interests section had then been the connection between the U.S government and internal counter-revolutionaries.
In 2003, James Cason was head of the U.S Interests Section in Havana and was funding and hosting the pro-imperialist Varela Project, an action which led the mass arrests of these activists for counter-revolution by the Cuban authorities. This was a necessary crackdown to supress those working for capitalist restoration. On 13 May 2002, Castro even hosted Jimmy Carter in Cuba, greeting him with a performance of the star spangled manner by the Cuban military band. Carter was even allowed to meet with Varela Project, emboldening their drive for counter-revolution, and was given a spot on Cuban TV and radio to spread his "human rights" rhetoric imperialist propaganda. In 1998 Castro welcomed the visit by the reactionary Pope John Paul II to Cuba. The pope condemned Castro for his "human rights abuses" and called for greater privileges to the catholic church in Cuba. Castro has hosted two reactionaries who wanted nothing more than to see the world eradicated of any traces of Communism, and supported the most extreme insurgents and regimes that burtally supressed Communists, leftists, and trade unionists. Castro is not without guilt of the imperialist Trojan Horse existing within Cuba.
VIETNAM became a unified workers state after the final victory of the Vietnamese Revolution in 1975. The heroic Vietnamese workers and peasants under the Communist banner of Ho Chi Minh successfully repelled and defeated three of the world's most powerful imperialist military machines: Japan, France, and the USA. However, the U.S rulers and their imperialist allies still promotes counter-revolution in Vietnam. The U.S currently hosts and funds the Government of "Free Vietnam", a terrorist group dedicated to counter-revolution in the Vietnamese deformed workers state (over the years they've been involved in Vietnamese embassy attacks). This group is founded by former officers and diplomats of the U.S puppet regime of South Vietnam, and proudly waves its reactionary yellow flag. But in the recent years, internal "human rights" counter-revolutionaries have become more active. They have found comfort in the arms of imperialist-sponsored "human rights" groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. On 8 April 2006, the most well known pro-imperialist dissident Nguyen Van Ly, a catholic priest, founded the group Bloc 8406 which openly advocates counter-revolution in Vietnam. This group drew up the so-called "Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam" which falsely claims that "Communism has been imposed on the Vietnamese nation" (published by HRW), when in reality the Communists mobilized the entire workers and peasants to resist three attempted imperialist wars of enslavement, by winning the masses over.
The manifesto of Bloc 8406 also claims that there were two opportunities in 1954 and 1975 when Vietnam could've embraced a "true democracy", indicating that resistance to imperialist invasion should not have taken place. What would've been the point on fighting the French and U.S imperialists if their system were to exist in Vietnam? None! With this counter-revolutionary manifesto Bloc 8406 seeks support from all the imperialist institutions, notably the U.N, as well as the U.S rulers, and NGOs to contribute to their cause of establishing a capitalist Vietnam. The U.S-funded Radio "Free Asia" maintains support for these dissidents with broadcasts calling for capitalist restoration. In November, a few months after this manifesto was published, three Vietnamese-Americans were arrested in Vietnam attempting to take over the radio waves and broadcast propaganda calling for a counter-revolution. The three were imprisoned and later released to the Americans. On 19 November 2000, the Vietnamese Stalinist leader Tran Duc Luong received and welcomed the imperialist Bill Clinton as the first U.S president to visit Vietnam since the end of the war, not taking into account that he is of the party that began the brutal U.S rape of Vietnam, plus tightening the embargo on Cuba and almost attacking North Korea. Luong even granted Clinton the opportunity to spew his imperialist "human rights" propaganda to university students in Hanoi only to get a passively firm response from Luong. It was this visit that encouraged internal counter-revolutionaries to continue their activities, and gave pro-imperialist dissidents like Nguyen Van Ly international recognition.
NORTH KOREA, the northern encalve of Korea became a workers state after the Second World War under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, and named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North Korea barely survived the U.S-led U.N imperialist onslaught that killed over 3 million Koreans, after being rescued by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Since the Korean War, North Korea had the Soviet Union and China to back them up in the event of another imperialist invasion. North Korea's economy proved stronger than the "democratic" capitalist South. In the mid-nineties natural disasters struck North Korea plus the fall of the USSR, China's sell out, and the death of Kim Il Sung left the deformed workers state impoverished to famine on a biblical scale and open to imperialist attack. The reign of his succeeding son "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il presiding over the cultish Stalinist regime, with the continuous mismanagement and isolationist Juche policies has also contributed heavily to impoverishment in North Korea. The repressive policies of the North Korean bureaucracy has made internal dissension almost impossible, whether pro-imperialist or revolutionary. Transmissions from Radio "Free Asia" are at times able to reach North Korea spewing their anti-Communist propaganda to its citizens. It is said that these broadcasts have played a signifiacant role in encouraging defections from North Korea.
As internal dissent is all supressed, on the plus side pro-imperialist activists within North Korea are most certainly to be imprisoned. In this case "human rights" imperialism against North Korea is generally centered in South Korea with North Korean defector groups as the poster boys. The face of these groups in defector Kang Chol-Hwan, who was welcomed with open arms by Bush and bosted to him how proud North Koreans would be if they saw this meeting. Groups like the U.S Committee for Human Right in North Korea, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch call for U.S foreign policy to not just target North Korea's nuclear program but also its "human rights abuses", particularly the U.S committee. This is a way to further isolate North Korea, and continue U.S war drive against North Korea on a "humanitarian" scale. Since 9/11 Bush in the recent years along with singling out North Korea as a potential nuclear target, also aroused support with his signing the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004 to continue funding defector groups working for total counter-revolution in the North. To implement this "human rights" counter-revolution from South Korea, Bush has selected the conservative Jay Lefkowitz as the U.S Special Envoy on North Korean Human Rights who hypocrtically denounced North Korea as a "criminal regime", coming from a capitalist who is an obvious advocate for privatized medicine and education, i.e robbing the working class of what should be regarded as basic human rights, but isn't by the imperialists. Lefkowitz oversees U.S funding for defector groups, and in 2006 called for more Radio "Free Asia" broadcasts to North Korea with their messages of counter-revolution. In the meantime with South Korea and Japan the U.S continues to threaten the North Korean workers state with military first strike. North Korea's nuclear weapons are the only thing that has prevented a bloody U.S attack.
CHINA is the largest, and post powerful of the remaining workers states; and the most populated country in the world. Capitalism was finally overthrown in China after the success of the Chinese Revolution of 1949, which was also the longest revolution in history. The bourgeois regime of Chang Kai-Shek and his Kuomintang fled to Taiwan, naming it the Republic of China. Under Mao-Tse-Tung, China was a deformed workers state with a Stalinist bureaucracy embarked on land reform and industrialization, collectivization and nationalization of private property. A peasant society was transformed into a modern day state. Despite these gains, the Maoist/Stalinist system would undermine them with bureaucratic rule. This was clearly demonstrated when Mao refused to defend North Korea from the U.S-led U.N imperialist onslaught until the "motherland" was threatened. Then there was the Great Leap Forward that killed tens of millions of peasants, followed by Mao's invitation of Richard nixon during the heaviest U.S bombing of North Vietnam. This was an outcome of the Sino-Soviet split resulting in China allying itself with the U.S imperialists against the Soviet Union. And from that point on, the Chinese Stalinists would seek any opportunity to appease and work with the imperialist powers. This was clearly demonstrated in 2006, when the Chinese bureaucracy ruthlessly voted for imperialist sanctions against North Korea. In spite of all this capitulation, the U.S imperialists are no less committed to a bloody counter-revolution in the Chinese workers state.
After the Chinese Revolution, the workers state was threatened by a U.S nuclear strike which did not occur for fear of a Soviet counter nuclear strike, but the threat would live on. A decade after the gains of the Chinese Revolution was exported to Tibet; the CIA organized, trained, and financed Tibet exile feudalists loyal to the deposed "god-king" Dalai Lama began a revolt that was crushed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Right up to the post-9/11 U.S policy, China has been singled out for a potential nuclear strike, and faces military encirclement by the U.S from military bases in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Yet the Chinese Maoists/Stalinist still seek to appease the U.S rulers. Internally, the imperialists has sought to forment counter-revolution in China through a number of methods. The most popular call for counter-revolution is the "Free Tibet" movement tied directly to human rights groups and the exiled Dalai Lama, a favorite CIA agent. The Dalai Lama is loved by much of the left, liberals, and hippies. These groups under the cloak of "self determination" for "poor little Tibet" has been the cry for total counter-revolution in China. The "Free Tibet" activists call for a return to this reactionary Dalai Lama to Tibet, and for imperialist support on behalf of "human rights" to the Tibetan pro-feudal forces. The "Free Tibet" call is not limited to liberal activists or imperialist politicians. What began as a CIA anti-Communist opperation has become a cultural and fashionable position. Movie stars and musicians like Richard Gere and the Red hot Chili Peppers have taken up this counter-revolutionary cause for rallying support from Hollywood and fans in support and raise funds for Tibetan reactionaries and to apply pressure to the U.S government to pressure China on the issue. This was demonstrated clearly by Brad Pitt's blockbuster "Seven Years In Tibet", which hails Austrian Nazi Heinrich Harrer for his friendship with the Dalai Lama and defending his cause.
The second favorite is the East Turkestan independence grous, which acts in the same fashion as the "free Tibet" groups. These groups also echos the "human rights" call to forment the separation of the Xinjiang ("East Turkestan" to reactionries) province of China (populated mainly by Muslim Uyghurs), and establish an Islamic theocracy. The face of these counter-revolutionaries is the Uyghur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, who once boasts about being the eleventh richest person in China. Kadeer has been exiled to the USA, and allied herself with Bush against China, but at the same time her "human rights" group calls on Bush to release detained Uyghurs from the U.S Guantanamo Bay torture facility. In August of 1999 Kadeer was arrested before she could meet with U.S Congressional staff about "human rights abuses" in Xinjiang. Naturally, this pro-imperialist activist is an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience". Rebiya Kadeer's current activism is pressuring the imperialists to address "human rights" in China during the Olympic Games in 2008, to turn games into an imperialist political attack against China. Next to Kadeer, there are Mujahideen terrorist groups such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement which advocates jihad against China, and the establishment of a feudal mullah ridden East Turkestan. While it must also be recognized that the Chinese bureaucracy themselves planted these seeds of counter-revolution with their Han Chinese chauvinism.
Then there is Falun Gong, a mystical group led by pro-imperialist cult master Li Hongzhi. This group the the face of Buddhist and Taoist revival, centered around backwards policies and activism against the Chinese deformed workers state. In Li's book "Turning of the Wheel of Law" ("Zhuan Falun" in Chinese), he denouces homosexuality and sexual freedom, and places them high on his list of evils, as well as identifying abortion as "murder", as well as women's liberation as a sign of degeneration. Also as a sign of degeneration Li, condemns interracial marriage and has thought up a worldly paradise segregated along racial lines. For this, Li Hongzhi received praise from racist far right Christian fundamentalist Senator Jesse Helms, who (as a supporter of racial segregation) hypocritically attacked China for "human rights abuses". The swastika on the Falun Gong emblem is not so different from the Nazi version. Nevertheless, Falun Gong (like the previously mentioned pro-imperialist groups) are loved and cradled by Amnesty International, and other NGOs. With China's tight grip on Falun Gong, AI intends to use the Olympics 2008 to raise the call for Falun Gong legitimacy and turn the sporting event into a political struggle for "human rights" in China. This call has been continuously made by both Republican and Democratic politicians alike. In July of 1999, Madeleine Albright attacked the Falun Gon crackdown to the U.N Human Rights Commission on behalf of the Clinton administration; with the U.S State Department under George W. Bush lectures China on "freedom and religion" and "freedom of speech". Falun Gang has also become a hot topic of U.S funded Radio "Free Asia" to promote counter-revolution in China along with the Tibetan and East Turkestan "independence" activists. |
