Thanks Saul, I'm resending to the whole list. Greetings from SF. Dave E. >From: Saul Thomas <stthomas@uchicago.edu> >To: "David Ewing" <ewinglaw@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: Offer of a Joint Forum wiith CCDS to discuss Chinese >socialism >Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:34:12 -0500 > >Dear Mr. Ewing, > >Your article didn't come through on the Zhongguo list. Could you please >send me a copy? > >Thanks much, > >Saul Thomas > > >At 07:53 PM 10/7/2005, you wrote: >>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. >> > >
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