China’s neo-leftism

China’s neo-leftism

Marxist professor Sun Daixiao talked about leftism in China on December 3, 2013. He said that leftism reflects the backwardness of China’s economy and society. It is manifested in both the backwardness and deficiency of the level of economic development and in the people’s ability of understanding, ways of thinking, and historical viewpoints.

Leftism is a bad thing, he said.

In the afternoon of December 3, 2013, the Chinese Communist Politburo held its 11th collective learning sessions, this time, “to learn about the principles and the methods of historical materialism.” (Xinhua News, December 4, 2013)

According to the professor, China has gone through three periods of erroneous leftism: 1. August, 1927 to January, 1935. 2. In 1992 when Deng Xiaoping said: “The reason why reforms cannot go forward is that many (in government) fear capitalism and they fear going down the path of capitalism.” 3. The decade leading up to the current “Communique” (November 12, 2013) and “Decision” (November 15, 2013) of the Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress.

Leftist politics is empty talk and launching political campaigns. They do not solve problems. They use mesmerizing slogans, the professor said. Mao Zedong even pointed out in his “Pragmatism”: “We also oppose ‘left’ wing empty talk.” Reason is abandoned in launching political campaigns. Deng Xiaoping said: “For several decades, ‘leftism’ has become a habitual force.”

In recent years, political opportunists, theoretical “scholars” and Chinese Communist Party “mouthpieces” have been popularizing leftism in China and they have amassed a great following.

[Master Chen says]
The “Decision” of November 15, 2013 and the “Communique” of the Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress (November 9 to November 12, 2013) have reaffirmed the “leading role of the state owned enterprises” in China’s economy. They blindly dismiss the fact that these state owned enterprises are exactly the obstacles to a free market. They monopolize resources and capital and entire industrial sectors. These are the “habitual forces” of China’s neo-leftism that are obstructing economic and social progress in China today and in the foreseeable future.

A commentary in the Xiaoxiang Morning News of December 5, 2013, said that historical materialism now has a new face. It is the face of the current policies to “comprehensively deepen reforms”. Efforts must “adapt to the changes in our nation’s basic social conflicts to push forwards social development.”

In the West, We seek conflict resolution. In China, one manipulates conflict. Resolution of conflict eliminates class struggle. Conflict manipulation perpetuates class struggle.

In America today, class conflict is intentionally created so as to bring about class struggle between those who have and can exempt themselves and those who have not and cannot exempt themselves. This conflict is then manipulated to perpetuate those in power.

I see neo-leftism both in China and in America.