NewZeal blog
written by Tevour Loudon
November 23, 2010
The Communist Party USA is preparing to defend China against the US, in what it sees as a looming Washington/Beijing “confrontation”.
While long a loyal ally of the Soviet Union and later the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Communist Party USA has also become markedly pro-China in recent years.
As Moscow and Beijing have openly moved into a military and economic alliance through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the American Communist Party has also staked out a pro-China position.
Now Communist Party USA members are discussing how to help China, in the event of Washington/Beijing hostilities.
Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA is currently advertizing a December 4 meeting at Berkeley’s Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library – “China and the US: The emerging confrontation”.
This is the key paragraph.
The United States government has been committing direct acts of provocation against China’s economy and other aspects of its society, including its military. In addition to disturbances in Tibet and uprisings of Uigurs in China’s northwest province, there are developing showdowns with Japan and South Korea. All have the fingerprints of the United States. If these confrontations are allowed to become full-blown, it will put the current US military ventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the shade, and will demand from all of us new energies to struggle on yet another – perhaps the biggest – domestic front against US imperialism.
Note the phraseology – “The United States government has been committing direct acts of provocation against China’s economy and other aspects of its society“. This is reminiscent of the Communist line of decades past which accused the US of waging “wars of aggression” in Korea and Vietnam, even though both wars were sparked by communist invasions.
This language is designed to condition US communists into loyalty to Beijing, by painting the US as an aggressor in any future hostilities – even if China strikes first.
The message will be: “China only attacked in self defense. The US shouldn’t have pushed China. China only wants peace. Workers must defend China against US aggression.”
This is the most significant sentence;
If these confrontations are allowed to become full-blown, it will put the current US military ventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the shade, and will demand from all of us new energies to struggle on yet another – perhaps the biggest – domestic front against US imperialism.
What does this mean? It is a clear signal that US “comrades” must prepare to act as at least a propaganda and activist “Fifth Column” for China, if and when conflict breaks out between Washington and Beijing.
Will this escalate to full blown treason, should a shooting war start?
The Communist Party USA’s own disloyal history suggests it would.
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