KUHNER: Fascism vs. team USA

It sounds like Jeffery misses the good old commie days.

Since there is no evidence that you've done any research to write this column, I have to ask: Do you think that a high-school educated person with an eye for history gets anything from reading this column? Why do you refuse to undertake any research? How about a little digging into the Nazi Olympics for some less-noticed similarities? How about something, anything, to support, or ideally to substitute for, a pile of adjectives?

The modern Olympics are not set up to be just for Western Civilization. It is a waste of time to preach to the Chinese about "human rights." Their civilization, at present, does not recognize them. I strongly suggest you read Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations..." It will open your eyes.

Mr. Kuhner's piece is well written. please write something about the oppression in communist Vietnam. thanks. Asians are human beings too. They want freedoms and democracy too. Let's allow free secret polling of communist-repressed peoples of Asia. We will find out that Asians don't like dictatorship or persecution.

Jeffrey’s provocative column still suffers from a real denial we have in seeing that what’s hurting China is what’s hurting us--starting with this fabricated "democratic capitalism" idea. Over 400 years of history shows that the struggle for democracy has been literally a struggle against capitalism of every variety. Democracy forms the economic cornerstone of socialism, and it is socialist-inspired reforms to capitalist economics that have given us the celebrated, yet still all too limited, democracy we have now. http://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1957/socialism.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1997/04/socdem.htm Capitalism and modern dictatorship, (regardless of what it calls itself) is based on an economic rule called Master-Servant Law and similar coercive and usurping legal structures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_and_Servant_Act http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200512/ai_n16350407 The struggle for democracy, led historically by socialistic movements, has been a fight against this and similar laws on which capitalism is based—like the Quakers, who first coined the term “communism” for the cooperative democratic townships and businesses they set up, who helped write the Bill of Rights for the US constitution and inspired later writers like Karl Marx.. http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=450004&subid=900021&contentid=251921 As for China, former Soviet Union, etc., Jeffrey is actually right in saying that these are fascist states. The truth is Marxism has nothing to do with central corporate planning or state capitalism. Rather, it is inspired by the basis of both socialism and communism being the democratic control of the commercial enterprises and the economy by workers and their communities. That’s very different from Lenin’s post-revolutionary centrally planned “transitional” capitalist framework. . [URL=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-232X.00302?journalCode=irel]Lenin: Industrial Management under a State Capitalist Monopoly Framework [/URL] [URL=http://tinyurl.com/2hwvh9]Progress Publishers, Moscow; Lenin: State Capitalism during the Transition to Socialism (Index) [/URL] After the Maoist victory in China, a similar model was developed. [URL=http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_30.htm]Mao: State capitalism on Building the Economy-- Conference on Financial and Economic Framework 1953[/URL] What’s changed now is that China is moving away from Mao’s rigid economic nationalism toward globalization. That’s why we no longer hear much whining from the usual right-wing corporate capitalist think tanks about China. Obviously, there’s a common bond between authoritarian state-directed or owned capitalism of the Stalin-Mao variety and the more traditional elite private sector corporate bureaucracy-driven capitalism of the US, British Empire, colonialism etc.

Interesting connections, and taking a stand against the Chinese communist party is clearly the right thing to do. Millions of Chinese are quitting the CCP after hearing about the Nine Commentaries about the Communist Party. Not only they don’t want anything to do with it, they wash clean the stain of the bloody oath it has made them do on dedicating their lives to it, even when they were just kids. This is no joke… For all the others not under its tight grip around the world, let’s think about the Chinese urgently quitting for good reasons, and weather our thoughts on it will bring us somewhere good in the future. If something is doomed because it plays a bad role for humanity and exist only for it’s sake, what about anyone still agreeing to it? Bad actions get their retributions sooner or later, but it’s still time to not be fooled by a bad regime that brings people down.