The Next Front - ‘Introduction’ chapter, from the Document-China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power, by CPI (Maoist).
Introduction
In its 9th Congress held in January 2017, the United Congress of the
Communist Party of India (Maoist) (CPI-Maoist) decided to conduct a
special study on emerging trends in social, economic, political, and
cultural changes with regard to strategy toward capitalist-revisionist
China. The
Central Committee was authorised to execute this decision. As per the
decision taken by the Central Committee during its 4th Conference, it
considered mainly two things: the trends within China, and whether China
has become a social-imperialist power. These were their two study
points. After investigating, the Central Committee adopted the following
thesis at its 5th Conference: “Today China has become a modern
social-imperialist power, an integral part of the capitalist-imperialist
world system, while also playing the role of antagonist towards the
oppressed classes and people in general.” The Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
parties, groups and powers are in solidarity with the worker-peasant,
suppressed, and other oppressed classes of society with the objective of
world socialist revolution, marching toward a creative struggle to win
over antagonistic imperialist China and end its conceptions of
revisionism, social-imperialism, and obscurantism. Our two communist
parties have two global responsibilities: to support the working class
and to support its revolution. To accomplish these tasks, the
social-imperialist nature of China must be exposed thoroughly. We must
understand the process by which China transformed into a major and
competent imperialist state among the imperialist nations of the world.
We must also succeed in the process of segregating global alliances and
enmities in accordance with the principles of international class
divisions. We must evaluate everchanging structural variations and their
specific conditions prevailing in the world. Unless we study these
aspects, we cannot understand modern wars, the politics of modern
revisionists, and the incidental variations in the imperialist system.
Leninism holds that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism – it
is war, it is moribund.
Imperialism affirms the rise of the socialist movement, and the 20th
century has proven this. The Leninist theory of imperialism applies even
today. War is the supreme tool by which imperialism divides and
reorganises the world for its vested interests. Imperialism indulges in
war for the sake of its monopoly on the world. It principally gains
through war. Wars are inevitable so long as imperialism exists in the
world. It penetrates into underdeveloped nations in the guise of
neo-colonialism to continue its obsessive compulsion for loot. It sucks
the blood of the common people and the oppressed, and it is the cause of
their extreme misery and distress. “Modern wars are the result of
imperialism,” said Lenin, time and time again. The two world wars in
first half of the 20th century broke out among the imperialist countries
as a contest to gain supremacy over the world by dividing and
reorganizing it. “The attempt to escape the new political and economic
crises of the imperialist countries led to the last two world wars,”
said Mao.
America has plundered the wealth of the world through imperialist war.
It acquired windfall gains by selling weapons in abundance to countries
who have engaged in war. In this way, America has become the
imperialist superpower of the capitalist world. When America’s
imperialist economic system incorporated a war economy, it focused only
on wars. Hence, it orchestrated aggression and war. We can see this
trend from Korea, Vietnam to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. War
will continue so long as imperialism prevails. If we want to abolish
war, we must eradicate the capitalist-imperialist system. The cold war
between the then superpowers of the US and the USSR had an impact on the
developed and underdeveloped countries. This gave rise to wars directly
or indirectly among them. From 1945- 1990, at the least 125 regional
wars, civil wars, and armed conflicts led to the deaths of more than 40
million people, while millions more were victimized and displaced. The
economic crisis that resulted in these countries because of imperialist
war is greater than that of the crisis that caused the World War II.
Wars continued to break out during the 1990s. American forces waged
treacherous wars in Honduras, Ukraine and in Egypt, and America fomented
incessant armed riots. Military interventions by Britain and America’s
other allies have led to the deaths of nearly 3.2 million Muslims. The
wealthiest and the most secular country in Africa, Libya, was destroyed
by America. Libya, which once warmly embraced migrants, is now being
destroyed, displacing half its population. More than 1 billion people
live in extreme poverty and suffer from malnutrition. Moreover, nearly
17 million people are dying due to poverty every year. Half of them are
children. America is trying to cover the ever-increasing expansion and
expenditure of Israel. Leaving aside the welfare of its own people,
America is amassing more than 20 trillion-dollars in debts to pay the
debts of Israel and massacre Muslims. America is directing trillions
from its budget to do this, subjecting its own people to misery and
thereby causing the deaths of more than 200,000 of its own people every
year.
The imperialist riots unleashed in Syria with the intent to overthrow the government of Bashar Al
Assad have led to the deaths of 500,000 people and another 2 million wounded or displaced. Moreover, millions of people were made homeless, migrating to neighbouring countries as well as some European countries. America destroyed many communities that had lived together amidst their shrines and holy places in brotherhood, peace, secularism and non-violence. The imperialist wars of aggression waged under the leadership of America on Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq and many other countries have caused countless deaths and injuries, destroyed countless homes, and forced countless people worldwide to migrate.
Assad have led to the deaths of 500,000 people and another 2 million wounded or displaced. Moreover, millions of people were made homeless, migrating to neighbouring countries as well as some European countries. America destroyed many communities that had lived together amidst their shrines and holy places in brotherhood, peace, secularism and non-violence. The imperialist wars of aggression waged under the leadership of America on Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq and many other countries have caused countless deaths and injuries, destroyed countless homes, and forced countless people worldwide to migrate.
In order to secure the imperialist system and deceive the people of the
world, imperialists and revisionists mislead the people in all possible
ways with various fictions according to the changing scenery of the
contemporary world. It is time to expose and mortify them. The
contemporary political vengeance of imperialism is a predictable result
of the capitalist economic system. Imperialism is extending its
political machinery to suppress the people by implementing its fascist
dictatorship far and wide. The stronger the repression, the stronger the
resistance. The worker-peasant classes, the petty-bourgeoisie and other
oppressed classes of society, even the endangered species, are
relentlessly waging wars against Imperialism. Our party, the Communist
Party of India (Maoist), is relentlessly striving to exterminate
imperialism from the earth, to install communism, and to unite the
oppressed classes and masses. Our party leads them and shoulders the
responsibility to fight alongside them.
In light of China’s rise as a social-imperialist power, the present task
is for all working-class parties around the world to develop manoeuvres
to sustain themselves. Party leadership, on these principles, must
gather the oppressed classes and people of their societies and lead them
in the march towards socialism. This document was released by the
Central Committee to elucidate how socialist China transformed into a
capitalist and imperialist power and how to develop strategies to combat
it. Let us study this document thoroughly. In the light of five
inherent features and three special aspects of imperialism taught by the
great Lenin, let us analyse and synthesise in the light of
Marxism-LeninismMaoism in order to build a correct scientific
understanding of China’s social-imperialist development.
Translated from Telagu by the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement
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