"On The Murder Mile"

"Mention brutal suppression of Chinese workers’ labour rights, appalling working conditions, detention without charge, the absence of an independent judiciary, absence of freedom of assembly, hastily expedited death sentences which feed the organ transplant market … and the occupation of so-called ‘autonomous’ regions such as Tibet, and opponents will focus on Tibet to the exclusion of all other charges. Essentially, the contention is that if one opposes the Chinese military industrial complex’s occupation of Tibet (and let’s not talk about any of those other things you mentioned), then one must necessarily favour restoration of a Lamaist theocracy — as if the only alternatives are dictatorship … or dictatorship. Any criticism of the Chinese dictatorship is part of a ‘racist’ ‘culture war’ and a conscious attempt to strengthen the hand of American imperialism. And besides, Beijing rescued Tibetans from feudalism and slavery — from themselves. In other words, Tibetans are children and cannot be relied upon not to enslave themselves, as any return to self-government must entail. Poor little Tibetans, can’t govern themselves. Just who are the racists here?"

- from the Journal of the Internationalist Workers' Tendency.

I've posted it to demonstrate that there really is original, critical thinking arising from what we used to call the Marxist Left (as distinguished from the Pseudo-Left) and it's resulting in ideas with which you can actually engage, either in dispute or agreement. As with the anti-dogmatic IWT, the same can be said about the Alliance for Workers Liberty, and as mentioned only yesterday, Platypus.

They are not "degenerates," and they have not "turned into monkeys":



But seriously. . . here's Slavoj Zizek on Marxism & The World Stage (first of four):