Comrade Hector
15th October 2005, 07:19
We're all aware about the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989. As far westerners are concerned it was just an example for them to demonize Communism. But was the West really horrified as the appeared to be? Any current documentary and book about the Tiananmen Square incident in the capitalist world depicted the tragedy as the people of China struggling for a U.S free market system in China ("Freedom" is the imperialist word). The protesters shown on CNN and other capitalist networks portrayed the protests as "pro-Democracy" i.e pro-West. Considering what was shown, why should it be questioned?
The is no doubt that there were protesters who felt that China should have western capitalism. But there were other protesters too. Protesters whose voices of protest didn't make it to CNN, and is still widely ignored to this day. The capitalist media neglected to mention that "the Internationale" was being sung again and again by workers and students in protest the the reforms of Deng Xiaoping that began the privatization of the gains from the Chinese Revolution, giving factories to foreign capitalists, and the rise of unemployment. Red flags and Mao portraits were seen carried by workers, students, and intellectuals who fought to keep the gains but oust the reformist element selling out the Chinese workers to the West. When the tanks came, the pro-west protesters who tried to take control of this anti-government revolution were supressed as were the workers and students protesting against the reforms.
Deng Xiaoping and his dogs began the capitalization of the People's Republic of China after Mao's death. He made an anti-Soviet alliance with the imperialists, and began to allow them to invest and establish their business in China, thereby putting the working-class under the boot of the bourgeois parasites. There was much maney to be made for the USA and its allies in their new friend. After the Tiananmen Square Massacre the United States made no steps to cancel the investments made their which Deng Xiaoping and co were profiting from. Bush Sr. organized no international boycott against China for the massacre, but only condemned it with words as did the British. Meanwhile American companies still continued to opperate in China, and still profiting as was the Chinese leadership, leeching of the labor of the workers. The only reason it was condemned is that the official label for China is "Communist". But had the workers achieved and gone back to the traditional system of Mao, the imperialists would once again lose their profits and investments. This is why the West took no real action.
This technique however, should have happened in Eastern Europe in 1989. It would've stopped the malignant US capitalist system from infecting and killing the workers.
For more information read this article China, 1989: The Days of Defiance (http://rwor.org/a/v21/1005-009/1009/tsq.htm)
Look at picture number 5 on this article. You will see that the portrait being waved by the students doesn't look much like Ronald Reagan.
The is no doubt that there were protesters who felt that China should have western capitalism. But there were other protesters too. Protesters whose voices of protest didn't make it to CNN, and is still widely ignored to this day. The capitalist media neglected to mention that "the Internationale" was being sung again and again by workers and students in protest the the reforms of Deng Xiaoping that began the privatization of the gains from the Chinese Revolution, giving factories to foreign capitalists, and the rise of unemployment. Red flags and Mao portraits were seen carried by workers, students, and intellectuals who fought to keep the gains but oust the reformist element selling out the Chinese workers to the West. When the tanks came, the pro-west protesters who tried to take control of this anti-government revolution were supressed as were the workers and students protesting against the reforms.
Deng Xiaoping and his dogs began the capitalization of the People's Republic of China after Mao's death. He made an anti-Soviet alliance with the imperialists, and began to allow them to invest and establish their business in China, thereby putting the working-class under the boot of the bourgeois parasites. There was much maney to be made for the USA and its allies in their new friend. After the Tiananmen Square Massacre the United States made no steps to cancel the investments made their which Deng Xiaoping and co were profiting from. Bush Sr. organized no international boycott against China for the massacre, but only condemned it with words as did the British. Meanwhile American companies still continued to opperate in China, and still profiting as was the Chinese leadership, leeching of the labor of the workers. The only reason it was condemned is that the official label for China is "Communist". But had the workers achieved and gone back to the traditional system of Mao, the imperialists would once again lose their profits and investments. This is why the West took no real action.
This technique however, should have happened in Eastern Europe in 1989. It would've stopped the malignant US capitalist system from infecting and killing the workers.
For more information read this article China, 1989: The Days of Defiance (http://rwor.org/a/v21/1005-009/1009/tsq.htm)
Look at picture number 5 on this article. You will see that the portrait being waved by the students doesn't look much like Ronald Reagan.