Posted on 10/10/2010 4:02:30 PM PDT by unspun
Many Western analysts make a huge mistake when commenting on changes inside communist countries.
This mistake has huge huge consequences in terms of Western foreign and trade policy and ultimately for the survival of Western civilization itself.
The mistake is to assume that because a communist country seems to be adopting capitalist production methods, that this signals a softening on the part of communist leaders and even an eventual abandonment of communism per se.
In the 1920s many Westerners claimed that Lenin's New Economic Policy, which allowed some free enterprise to operate signaled the death of communism.
For thirty rears commentators have been heralding "market reforms" in China as a sign that Beijing will eventually abandon communism and somehow become a capitalist, democratic nation.
This is of course wishful thinking at best and in some cases may be deliberate disinformation.
US foreign policy has been based on this assumption since the 1970s. This has resulted in a US economy indebted to China and considerable Chinese money and influence inside the US political process.
It has resulted in a foolish attempt to ally with China against Russia, while behind the scenes, the Russians and Chinese continued to collaborate against the US and other Western powers.
In my opinion, as Western economic, military and political unity continue to deteriorate, the Russians and Chinese will continue to plan for a "one closed fist" strike to finish off America for good.
If Russia and China and their allies in Latin America, Africa and the Islamic world are allowed to take out America, this planet will enter into a new Dark Age of unparalleled human suffering and universal slavery.
The stakes are very high, this is not merely and academic question....
(Excerpt) Read more at gulagbound.com ...
Please ask your candidates and politicians The Three Sovereignty Now Questions.
Understand America's Problems, But You Want The Solution?.
It’s more Fascist than Communist.
The day the chinese communist party feels that free-market reforms have run their course and are no longer helpful to the state, it will be shot and its organs harvested.
Is America still on the communist road?
In Vietnam the communists have a 3-way laboratory.
The north is more authoritarian, even if more economically open since the Doi Moi (open door?) policy of the late eighties.
The center, Hue, Danang...to about Nha Trang is a little more of a mixed bag...noticeably freer economically yet the reins are still about, if a little looser.
Saigon though is essentially wide open, HCMC be dammned. The commies must be in on the take somewhere, but that place is a hot-bed of free enterprise.
Thus goes the war, which is still being fought...by Americans through ideas if not numbers. Whether we ultimately win is still up in the air, more a function of how well we succeed against islamism.
Several generations ago, the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn told us that even the Soviet hierarchy knew that Marxism was a joke, but one which they clung to only because it justified their power. Ever since then, commies in various countries have exploited the free market in order to keep their elites in power, and useful idiots in the West have used “free market” rhetoric to support the transfer of manufacturing and technology to Communist slave states.
It’s actually State Capitalism.
Is this observation correct? Does anyone have any insights?
Well put.
Ask the tycoon Marxofascists, from Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, Rhodes (and yes, some Rothschilds) to the current set... Soros, Strong, Gates (and Gorbachev) -- (and yes, some Rothschilds).
See prior answer.
Power and control -- the mindset of dictators and many CEO's and COB's.
America is the essential geopolitical threat to global authoritarianism.
I suggest you start with the Tower of Babel -- and move on to what Norman Dodd discovered here in America.
I have been arguing for a long time that all of this was planned, including the fall of the USSR. The goal of the apparatchiks to control the world has not ended..
So you're saying the Left wants to industrialize everywhere except America? Then why is the Left opposed to industrialization in all Western countries (such as Europe)?
I suggest you start with the Tower of Babel
That was in last week's Parashah.
That's what James Simpson has researched, as well. Look for a major new article by him, soon.
That's what James Simpson has researched, as well. Look for a major new article by him, soon.
The Left is run by those who seek global empire, done in the most effective way they see it done -- the Marxist way.
The West are the bourgeoisie -- the rest of the world is the proletariat. Pretty much explains it.
Kind of what I thought. But that just makes it weird to see a Western Communist (anti-industrialization) party/publication praising Communism in China because it enabled it to rapidly industrialize.
“In the 1920s many Westerners claimed that Lenin’s New Economic Policy, which allowed some free enterprise to operate signaled the death of communism ... [And the Westerners who trained the soviet workforce ended up in gulags.]
Yes, needs emphasis!
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