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Post-1949 China and Soviet Russia: A Social Comparison Lev Navrozov A while ago I studied China via articles and books. As for video and documentary films, I ignored them because I believed that I could mentally reconstruct from my Soviet experience the post-1949 China as another large-scale slavery. I understood that in Western languages, the word "slavery" denotes relatively small-scale or "private" slavery (no more than several thousand slaves). But when the number of slaves runs into millions or billions, the West calls such mega-scale slavery "the state," and the mega-scale slave owner "the government," or, for example, "president." I also understood that in the West, it is widely believed that peace depends on "good-neighborly relations," just like those between the owner of a country house somewhere in Kansas and his or her neighbor over the fence dividing their properties. "Good-neighborly relations" were established between the United States and China way back, when China's mega slave owner was Mao Zedong. Imagine Presidents Nixon, Clinton, or either Bush calling the Chinese owner of about a billion slaves "Mr. Mega Slave Owner"! However, a while ago I began to pay attention to Western video and documentary films about China, such as the three DVDs of 120 minutes each, produced by Ambrica Productions with WGBH Boston and Channel 4 Television UK. Not that the authors, producers, and directors of these DVDs found a Chinese political thinker who said before their TV cameras: "Those who gathered in Tiananmen Square in 1989 erected on the Square a replica of the Statue of Liberty. The existence of the democratic West is, in our epoch of globalism in information, the key cause of rebellion in China against mega slave ownership. The only way for China's mega slave owner to preserve his property for himself is to annihilate the democratic West by superweapons or make it surrender unconditionally." There are no such internationally audible political thinkers in the West, and the authors, producers, and directors of the those three DVDs would not find such a thinker in China, where such a thinker would, if publicly audible, be seized and tortured to death, the relevant DVD destroyed, and the creators of it compelled to leave China. Yet there are other video revelations in these DVDs. Every nation stereotypes all other nations. Chinese? Ah, those exotic beauties, bejeweled, with tiny eyes, on the vases "said to be Ming." In real life in these DVDs, many Chinese can well be taken for Russians or Europeans or white Americans. This makes their slavery all the more human and tragic. Story Continues Below
Mao, to whom the second DVD (1949-1976) is devoted, has been compared by his critics to Stalin. Both were mega slave owners, of course. But the video evidence of the DVD demonstrates that Mao was a more ruthless mega slave owner than Stalin was. For the first time I saw his portraits in his old age. He looked like a cross between a Neanderthal and a giant swine. Yet all women in China belonged to him automatically, for the refusal to sleep with him was like the rejection of God's love. His mega slave ownership was as monstrous as his image. Pay no attention to a trifle like the death from hunger of 30 million farmers because he had taken their grain from them. He owned the Chinese as slaves for 27 years, but the worst decade was his last – the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). He had decided that the key threat to his mega slave ownership came from some members of his "Chinese Communist Party." He was right: It was easier for members of this "party" (criminal gang) to conspire against him and remove him than for a rank-and-file slave to do so. Hence all young people were encouraged to form criminal gangs that could pronounce "reactionary" any member of the "Chinese Communist Party" and kill him outright or torture him to death. Yes, those members of the "Chinese Communist Party" who seemed suspicious to the roving gangs were their victims. Universal gangsterism, countrywide mob KGB, national free-for-all, banditry without bounds. The number of victims of Mao's slave ownership exceeds 100 million. Knowing how dreadful the history of China has been since 1949, a viewer of the three DVDs might well expect to see the Chinese as frightened, afraid even to look at the authors, producers, and directors of a Western DVD! Another video surprise – they are calm, bold, heroic, considering their social background. The Tiananmen Square movement is in the third DVD. In video, it is far more grandiose than in print. Yes, the mega slave ownership nearly collapsed, as it did in Russia two years later. China's 1.3 billion slaves are a huge reservoir of rebellion, inspired by the very existence of the democratic West. The video ends in 1997. What about the last decade? Nearly all of those Americans who are publicly audible do not wish to understand the words "communism," "socialism," or "capitalism" – they just assume that while "communism" and "socialism" are the poles of evil, "capitalism" is the pole of goodness, including "freedom and democracy." Actually, "capitalism" flourished in Nazi Germany as much as it did in the United States, but Nazi Germany was a mega slave ownership as much as was post-1949 China or Soviet Russia. German capitalism helped Hitler come to power and made money out of the raw materials and manpower in the conquered countries. While officers and officials tried to assassinate Hitler after his military setbacks, German capitalists were loyal to him to his bitter end. If China's superweapons make the United States surrender unconditionally, Chinese capitalists will rob and kill their Western competitors no less ruthlessly than will the "Chinese Communists." The Chinese capitalists are the mega slave owner's, bidding his will, while the Western capitalists are free to make the rope with which to hang the West. Incidentally, it would be not amiss for Americans to know what "communism" means. Marx believed that if money is abolished and machines produce all necessities, the entire population will devote itself to creativity, while crime will disappear because there is no money and everything is free. What has this to do with Mao's Cultural Revolution or Hu Jintao's persecution of Falun Gong? A specific song was woven throughout the DVDs. As a Russian, I immediately knew what it was: "The Internationale," the anthem, introduced by Marx, about the need to "destroy the entire old world" in order to create that paradise on earth that he called communism. The Chinese capitalists can well consider "The Internationale" their hymn as far as the contemplated destruction of their competition outside China is concerned. As for paradise on earth, it may ever be coming yet will never come, for it is a utopia. You can e-mail me at navlev@cloud9.org
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