Left organizations that refuse to characterize China as an imperialist power disarm the mass movement

By Juan Giglio

A few days ago, two senior representatives of the Yankee government arrived in the country, the second from the State Department -Wendy Sherman- and the head of the Southern Command of the Armed Forces of that country -Laura Richardson- both agreed to "recommend" the government to "stay away from china!”. A few hours later, the chief of advisers to the presidency, Antonio Aracre, who was closely linked to the great Asian power, since for years he was the CEO of Syngenta, a multinational controlled by Chinese capital, blew up. 

While all this was happening, Lula and several of his ministers were holding meetings with Xi Xin Ping and other CCP leaders, with the purpose of consolidating commercial and financial relations. At the same time, Sergei Lavrov, Putin's foreign minister -China's great ally- landed in Brazil and other countries on the continent with similar intentions. These moves show that China is competing for South American markets, which is exactly the same as it is doing on other continents. 

The great power, which disputes this place with the United States, long ago ceased to be a mere supplier of cheap goods, to become an exporter of highly elaborated goods and capital, which circulate throughout the planet. To consolidate this dynamic, the leaders of the CCP, in addition to designing and building the "Silk Road", are preparing for a direct military confrontation with the Yankees, carrying out provocations in the sea surrounding Taiwan.

Despite the figures and facts that demonstrate the high and sophisticated industrial, commercial and financial development of China, there are still leftist parties that deny its imperialist character. This refusal is not a minor issue, since by not characterizing that power as imperialist, these organizations end up assigning it the role of an oppressed country, which, when attacked by Yankee imperialism, must be defended, like Argentina in the recovery period of Malvinas. 

The characterization of these parties matches that of the Stalinists and other sectors, who say that China and Russia are playing a progressive role because they are breaking the US "hegemony", promoting the existence of a "multipolar" world, in which there would be greater development possibilities for semi-colonies. This analysis is wrong, because the commercial war between powers -and the most direct one, which is approaching- is a counterrevolutionary confrontation to pillage markets, which when they fall into the hands of one or another imperialism, are equally looted and exploited! 

Neither the Yankees, nor the Chinese, nor the Russians, Japanese or Europeans play a progressive role, since the crisis of the capitalist system forces them to apply the same policy towards the working class, which is to super-exploit it to guarantee such an increase. of productivity that allows them to stop the fall in the rate of profit and maintain their "competitiveness". It is necessary to draw lines with all the imperialists, telling the mass movement that it has to conquer the second and definitive independence, kicking out all the powers!

This line, which is expressed in slogans -Neither Yankees nor Chinese! Liberation or dependency! and other similar ones- is not assumed or agitated by the parties that minimize the role of China and Russia -such as the PTS, the PO or the PSTu- that deny the imperialist character of these countries. By doing so, these groups end up creating illusions in which Argentina could emerge from the crisis hand in hand with another empire. They disarm the working class, in the face of the imperial offensive of these countries, which are gambling to replace the old empires to do exactly the same! 

From CS we propose to open the debate around this question, which will be crucial for the development of the revolutionary left in the coming period, full of great rebellions due to the terminal crisis of Capitalism. In September, our International Revolutionary Communist Current will hold its World Congress in Argentina, through which we will summon all the currents that claim socialism and the revolution to openly debate this issue. 

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