Written by: (Contributed) on 5 December 2022
(This is the latest update, written on December 1, by our Chinese friends. We have added several explanatory notes - Eds.)
December 1. The movement continues to take a turn for the
worse and the solidarity movement in Urumqi is now, so to speak, completely cut
off from the reality of the rest of the Chinese people. It has become a
movement of the liberals. We have to break with them and demand that the
original aims of the movement and the needs of the socialist revolutionary line
come to the side of the interests of the masses and not those of the liberals.
The Chinese government has begun preparations to organise a
silent commemoration of the death of Jiang Zemin, and some liberals in the
country have immediately taken advantage of the opportunity to join the
commemoration. On this issue there are two factions within the liberal
community, those who support this and those who do not. Although Jiang Zemin is
by definition their historical enemy, this conflict over whether to commemorate
him or not did not split them internally, showing the unprincipled and
opportunistic nature of their entire faction.
And what
about our liberals abroad? For example, the Solidarity with Urumqi Middle Road
event[1]
now developing in Japan. In addition to our Hong Kong-independence,
Tibetan-independence and Xinjiang-independence forces on the scene, our
liberals and their Japanese friends have also put up more banners to split
China, such as Zhuxia independence[2],
the disintegration of China and the Great Shu Republic[3].
This proves that our judgement of November 30 was completely correct. The
liberals are inextricably linked to international imperialism and their
political interests and demands are bound together, which dictates that they
have to make China take the path of being divided, in which case China will be
divided and split into many, many regions, leading to an even more tragic end
than in history. It is an abyss. Most of the voices abroad now pursue such a
reactionary line. There are, of course, revolutionary ones. We must better
unite and support each other with our international comrades, otherwise we
cannot eliminate the influence of the liberals abroad.
This
solidarity movement, held by the liberals, is now beginning to turn more and
more into a reactionary movement. It is only natural that their demand for the
independence of the various nationalities and regions cannot be genuine, as
opposed to the right of national self-determination that the socialist
revolution was intended to give to the proletariat. The Hong Kong independents
are fighting for a return to British rule, the Xinjiang and Tibetan
independents are planning to return to the rule of their local religious
groups, which are undoubtedly bourgeois. The overseas and domestic forces of
the private bourgeoisie everywhere and the forces of international imperialism
have joined forces to use the false rights of a bourgeois democratic republic
as bait to use our students and try to deceive our masses in order to lead our
country to a fractured end. This has to bring to mind the end of the
disintegration of the Soviet Union, which indeed has similarities, but in fact
is much more than that. Our people must realise the historical consequences of
this line, which tells us that we can only follow the path of the socialist
revolution, that we can only apply the revolutionary line of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and that we must gather with the fundamental interests
of the proletariat.
But also
because of the liberals' naive illusions and the fragmentation of the masses,
this solidarity and protest movement is becoming less and less powerful. They
have isolated themselves from the huge potential of the protest movement (i.e.
our proletariat and petty bourgeoisie). Judging by the current situation, this
line will certainly not yield good results at the moment, they cannot yet shake
the rule of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie, which is currently united as never
before in our country and which has learnt many ways of guarding against the
liberals from the example of the end of the Soviet Union.
But it is
necessary for this movement to fulfill its original mission rather than the
mission of the liberals, that is, the opening of the epidemic policy, and the
requirements of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of
information. This requires a shift in the future course of the movement. The
movement needs to be controlled by the revolutionaries and led by the correct
revolutionary method, or for the next new movement to continue to be promoted as
a result of the fundamental contradiction between the proletariat and the bureaucratic
capitalist class in our country.
[1] On Sunday November 27, thousands
gathered on this road, named after Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province, to
protest Covid-19 restrictions that were believed to have contributed to a loss
of life in an Urumqi building fire.
[2] The suggestion that China should
disintegrate into a series of small countries. Some supporters see the
provinces becoming their own countries. Its inspiration is the Spring and
Autumn Period (roughly 770-476BC) when the royal authority of the Zhou Dynasty over
the various feudal states eroded as more and more dukes and marquesses obtained
de facto regional autonomy.
[3] Da Shu, or the so-called Republic of
Basuria, its self-proclaimed “President” is Sichuanese-born Liu Zhongjing who
moved to the US in 2016. He calls for the independence of Sichuan as the home
of the Ba people.
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