Written by: (Contributed) on 4 December 2022
(On December 1, we posted our translation of a contribution sent to us by Chinese comrades. We are now posting an update, dated November 30, which particularly identifies the role of opportunism within the current mass movements, and the reliance of such opportunism on US-led imperialism. This is our translation, and we have not been able to check with our Chinese friends on its accuracy. However, we are confident that it captures our correspondents' meaning. We have added two explanatory notes - Eds.)
November 30. We note the increasingly liberal nature of the
movement as the nature of a mere student protest movement, which degenerated to
a rudimentary stage. But with the death of Jiang Zemin, it seems to have given
these remaining liberal dreamers a chance to redevelop their own movement, and
they began to discuss solemnly whether to take advantage of Jiang's death to
call on other classes to join their liberal movement for their own purposes by
commemorating him. The speculative nature of the liberals is clear to us today,
as Jiang Zemin, one of the key political figures in the suppression of the
student movement and the suppression of the liberals in the June 4 Incident, is
enjoying the tributes of the liberal activists today. Although the Communist
Party's "Letter to the Whole Party, the Whole Army and the Whole
Nation" promulgated today contains passages specifically and loudly
emphasising Jiang Zemin's credit for the suppression of the June 4 incident to
prevent the liberals from taking advantage of it, the rulers wrote: "When
serious political turmoil occurred in our country in the spring and summer of
1989, Comrade Jiang Zemin embraced and implemented the Party's Central
Committee's decision to flagrantly oppose unrest, defend the correct decision
of the Party Central Committee to oppose unrest, defend the socialist state
power and safeguard the interests of the people, rely closely on the Party members,
cadres and the masses, and vigorously maintain stability in Shanghai." But
this does not prevent the liberals from once again using the slogan "those
who deserve to die are not dead, those who should not die are dead",
trying to continue to use similar tactics as they did in '89 to take advantage
of Hu Yaobang's death in the present[1],
without any progress! The use of such a hot face on a cold ass[2],
trying by all means to use Jiang Zemin's death for their own political
purposes, has instead helped the rulers to hoodwink the masses into mourning
the death of Jiang Zemin.
Who is Jiang Zemin? The man who greatly defended the reform
and opening up and promoted the development of Chinese capitalism, the man who
single-handedly wiped out what remained of the social welfare of the Chinese
working class and promoted the great layoffs. At least 30 million workers were
laid off and 70 million total unemployed were created. The man who defended the
high agricultural taxes that drove the bourgeoisification of the countryside
and created mass peasant poverty, even as large numbers of peasants had to
participate in the plasma economy to sell their blood for a living. The
liberals want to exploit this? Want to keep the proletariat deluded to honour their
class enemies while at the same time helping these liberal fantasists to
realise their own beautiful dreams?
Jiang Zemin should be condemned. In this case, it is better
for the proletariat to remain politically aloof even now than to join the
coalition of rulers and opportunists in honouring Jiang Zemin.
We can also see that due to the blockade of communication in
the country, the liberals went over the wall to the extranet and typed out
their demand for constitutionalism in China and to turn China into a bourgeois
democratic republic, which immediately led to a whole bunch of liberals
following the trend and making voices and comments that they wanted to run. Is
turning China into a constitutional state, a state ruled by the Guomindang, for
the betterment of the liberals? What do they take the working people of China
for?
Ah, the general democratic voice of the world is in
solidarity with us, but mainly with our liberals. This means that our liberals
are inextricably linked to the opportunist reformist ideology within foreign
imperialist countries, and this is their international ally. There is no doubt
that liberalism is the most serious opportunism in our contemporary society, a
threatening line second only to “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as the
main enemy. The political interests of the liberals demand that they
necessarily bind themselves to a more radical political line of betrayal of
China and of the proletariat, leading China to a condition even more miserable
than the present rule of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie. They can only rely on
the international allies of the bourgeoisie if they are to overcome the rule of
the now unprecedentedly powerful bureaucratic bourgeoisie in China. We must
call for a break from such a line and come to the line of socialist revolution.
Who are our international allies of the proletariat of
China, the other suffering masses, the students? It can only be the
revolutionary communist parties, the revolutionary proletariat, and the masses
demanding socialist revolution in all countries. They want to achieve an
independent socialist state, and so do we. We must help each other, and we must
help each other in building a socialist state in the future. These are the
forces that are our most reliable international allies, these are the forces
that are our international comrades and will never betray each other. Because
our interests and theirs are united, whether our victory or theirs will help
each other's revolutionary cause.
Lenin said in Imperialism: The Highest Stage of
Capitalism: "In fact, the particularly rapid and particularly nasty
development of opportunism does not guarantee a consolidated victory for
opportunism, just as the rapid development of an abscess on a healthy body only
hastens the festering of the abscess and restores the body to health." The
essence of liberals is also a kind of opportunism, and the earlier they are in
the early stage of the movement, the more they can bluff and deceive the
masses. But the possibility of not being able to overcome them is not allowed,
and overcoming them will help the minds of all of us oppressed to grow.
Our people must recognise their hypocrisy for what it is. We
good students must abandon this reactionary ideology and resolutely break with
the degenerate and opportunistic elements! Break with the erroneous liberal
line and all other lines! We must firmly come to the revolutionary
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist line. We need to embrace and assist the working class
like those in Foxconn in Zhengzhou, and also go and integrate with the
feudalised working masses. Instead of degenerating into the ranks of the
liberals and their foreign imperialist allies, we must resolutely raise the red
flag!
[1] Hu
Yaobang was a noted liberal within the Party’s leadership, the
Secretary-General of the Party and an ally of capitalist-roader Deng Xiaoping. His
death on April 15, 1989 precipitated the student movement that led to the June 4th
Incident.
[2] It
means that they have been flattering and pleasing others, but others ignore
them; the face is enthusiastic, the ass is cold refers to these two different
types of behaviour.
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