Offer of a Joint Forum wiith CCDS to discuss Chinese socialism

["David Ewing" <ewinglaw@hotmail.com>]

The Bay Area CCDS Newsletter (Oct-Nov 2005) carried two letters specifically 
criticizing me for my article on The Atlantic Magazine (June 2005) 
provocation against China.  My article is attached in Word format.  (CCDS is 
the 1991 right-wing split from the CPUSA.)  They reacted most strongly to my 
point that Monthly Review has "embraced much of the Bush hostility to China 
-- from the Left"  They deleted my "from the Left" qualifier to make their 
argument look stronger.  In Bush's Iraq speech yesterday, he specifically 
compared Islamic fundamentalism to the past danger of Communism  and even 
mentioned the Cultural Revolution as one of the great criimes against 
humanity that America must help prevent in the future.  A similiarly 
exaggerated condemnation of the GPCR was used in the CCDS criticism of me.  
My point is that the American Left is split over China. The anti-China 
criticism coming from Social Democrats like CCDS, Monthly Review, DSA, IS, 
and some of the protectionist labor misleaders is used by the bourgeoisie 
(BOTH Democrats and Republicans) to provide a left-populist cover for their 
war plans against socialist China.  That makes supporting Chinese SOCIALISM 
against U.S. IMPERIALISM a question of pricinciple for those who claim to be 
Marxists.  The centrism  (or worse) of social democrats like the CCDS, at a 
time when socialism must be defended, crosses the class line by providing a 
reserve of political support for their own bourgeoisie in the coming 
military showdown with the last surviving large socialist country.  I HERE 
OFFER A PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF THESE ISSUES AT A JOINT FORUM OF CCDS AND THE 
U.S. CHINA FRIENDSHIP ASOCIATION, SAN FRANCISCO, TO BE HELD IN DECEMBER 
2005, IN SAN FRANCISCO, to further explore the issue of Chinese socialism 
and the danger of imperialist war.  I request that CCDS respond with a 
suggested local meeting place and time.  David W. Ewing, San Francisco.