Cultural Revolution
23rd November 2010, 16:08
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While the white working and middle class youth demonstrate over hikes in tuition fees, or march over cuts, the Peoples of the third world are really suffering, from hunger, poverty, lack of education, and living on less a day than what most in the first world earn in an hour.
Due to Economic Imperialism by Britain, the USA, France and many other European countries, the proletariat in the third world is producing most of the world’s goods, yet receives the smallest fraction of the value of the things that are produced.
Many so called Maoists are now adhering to an unscientific and defeatist program known as third worldism, which writes off the first world worker, and even casts him off as a parasite, who is all too willing to share in the plunder of the master, this however, is easily seen through, as most of the people saying this, have never worked a day in their life, are from petit Bourgeoisie academic backgrounds, who want to be Che Guevara.
However, the fact that the first world communist parties seem to focus on purely national issues, which despite being admirable, like fighting the cuts etc., seem to be in no rush to be true internationalists and organise around global issues, and actually be militant, despite genocidal wars being waged from their own nations.
We see students kicking windows in and starting bonfires over their parents having to pay more money for their education, yet when do we see attacks on military personnel or institutions?
When troops are killing the men, women and children of Afghanistan, where are the militant communist groups actively fighting imperialism?
Where are the white students when Gaza is being rocketed or Indian Maoists are engaged in armed struggle with the imperialist lackey government?
It seems that euro centrism and an indifference to the wretched of the earth is endemic in all European parties, and the people going through the harshest oppression are ignored, and solidarity is in words and banners only, whereas when the poll tax comes, people then are ready to be violent.
Now I am not claiming to be different, or some John J Rambo Anti Imp, but I think all of us in the west need to address this nationalist, anti-internationalist stance we have, when it comes to doing nothing, in a time of extreme violence against the masses, we need to really believe that freedom is merely privilege extended unless its free for one and all.
At the moment the first world proletariat, and the communist current in Europe and America need to see violence in say Colombia against the peasantry as an attack on the proletariat as a whole, or the occupation of Palestine as an occupation off all of our houses and streets.
Though revolutionary and still proletariat, the first world workers has become The house slave, either siding with the oppressor, or choosing the higher conditions than the field slave gets, rather than showing solidarity and fighting the overseer in the house, rather than sitting by while he whips the field slave.
While the white working and middle class youth demonstrate over hikes in tuition fees, or march over cuts, the Peoples of the third world are really suffering, from hunger, poverty, lack of education, and living on less a day than what most in the first world earn in an hour.
Due to Economic Imperialism by Britain, the USA, France and many other European countries, the proletariat in the third world is producing most of the world’s goods, yet receives the smallest fraction of the value of the things that are produced.
Many so called Maoists are now adhering to an unscientific and defeatist program known as third worldism, which writes off the first world worker, and even casts him off as a parasite, who is all too willing to share in the plunder of the master, this however, is easily seen through, as most of the people saying this, have never worked a day in their life, are from petit Bourgeoisie academic backgrounds, who want to be Che Guevara.
However, the fact that the first world communist parties seem to focus on purely national issues, which despite being admirable, like fighting the cuts etc., seem to be in no rush to be true internationalists and organise around global issues, and actually be militant, despite genocidal wars being waged from their own nations.
We see students kicking windows in and starting bonfires over their parents having to pay more money for their education, yet when do we see attacks on military personnel or institutions?
When troops are killing the men, women and children of Afghanistan, where are the militant communist groups actively fighting imperialism?
Where are the white students when Gaza is being rocketed or Indian Maoists are engaged in armed struggle with the imperialist lackey government?
It seems that euro centrism and an indifference to the wretched of the earth is endemic in all European parties, and the people going through the harshest oppression are ignored, and solidarity is in words and banners only, whereas when the poll tax comes, people then are ready to be violent.
Now I am not claiming to be different, or some John J Rambo Anti Imp, but I think all of us in the west need to address this nationalist, anti-internationalist stance we have, when it comes to doing nothing, in a time of extreme violence against the masses, we need to really believe that freedom is merely privilege extended unless its free for one and all.
At the moment the first world proletariat, and the communist current in Europe and America need to see violence in say Colombia against the peasantry as an attack on the proletariat as a whole, or the occupation of Palestine as an occupation off all of our houses and streets.
Though revolutionary and still proletariat, the first world workers has become The house slave, either siding with the oppressor, or choosing the higher conditions than the field slave gets, rather than showing solidarity and fighting the overseer in the house, rather than sitting by while he whips the field slave.