Thursday 1 October 2009
East Is East
From Our Own Correspondent had a report this morning about the rather forlorn old souls still living on communes in China. Keeping the dream alive? Well, something like that, I suppose. In reality, China is the biggest of all the standing contradictions of the theory that capitalism is somehow related to democracy. And for all her many, many faults, the people who so especially hate China do so for precisely two reasons. They have made themselves (and the rest of us, not that they have ever asked us) dependent on her. And they are old Trotskyists from back in the day.
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No, Mr Lindsay, the reason some of us hate China - how hard is this to understand? - is that Mao's regime wiped out 20 million people, and that the present Chinese tyrants have never shown the smallest public contrition over this fact. The West, in case you hadn't noticed, is not remotely interested in condemning the Total State's murder machine unless it happens to have been in the hands of Nazis.
ReplyDeleteBeyond the jackets, the pictures and the Sixties Revival pardes, there is no resemblance between the present Chinese regime and that of Chairman Mao. The Chinese Communist Party now has capitalism written into its constitution. To which to is fully faithful.
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