THE CHARACTERISTICS
OF COMMUNISM
Communism is a
biggest force in the world, it occupied a half area and a half of population of
the world. All of them follow Marxism and are educated by the same training
centers of Comintern. therefore their thoughts, their acts, even their
characteristics are the same.
I.
MARXISM, A VALUELESS PHILOSOPHY
Karl Marx and Engels followed the materialism, which
is in contrast to idealism, neutral monism, and spiritualism. Karl Marx
and Engels were very proud of their materialism and a number of intellectuals
in the world also appraised Materialism. But today many philosophers and
scientists do not approve the materialism of Communists.
Firstly, Philosophy , History, Politics,
Revolution belong to the domain of Science of Humanity, They are different from
the Natural Science and Pure Science.
Secondly, although materialism and materials
belong to the field of science, but all labels of "Science" do
not certify that the contents of things are science.
The study of science needs the investigation,
observations, and the experiments . A good scientific study needs two
necessary conditions: objective and precise. But Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin
had no time to observe their theory. They carried out their theory without the
scientific experiments.
The professor of Philosophy at the University
of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga criticised it, and the Emiritus Regius Professor
of Divinity Keith Ward suggested that materialism is rare amongst contemporary
UK philosophers: "Looking around my
philosopher colleagues in Britain, virtually all of whom I know at least from
their published work, I would say that very few of them are materialists."
Some modern day physicists and science
writers such as Paul Davies and John Gribbin have argued that scientific finds
in physics such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory have disproved
materialism. In their 1991 book The Matter Myth in the first chapter titled The
death of materialism they wrote:
Then came
our Quantum theory, which totally transformed our image of matter. The old
assumption that the microscopic world of atoms was simply a scaled-down version
of the everyday world had to be abandoned. Newton's deterministic machine was
replaced by a shadowy and paradoxical conjunction of waves and particles,
governed by the laws of chance, rather than the rigid rules of causality. An
extension of the quantum theory goes beyond even this; it paints a picture in
which solid matter dissolves away, to be replaced by weird excitations and
vibrations of invisible field energy. Quantum physics undermines materialism
because it reveals that matter has far less 'substance' than we might believe.
But another development goes even further by demolishing Newton's image of
matter as inert lumps. This development is the theory of chaos, which has
recently gained widespread attention.(Wikipedia)
According to Aleksandr Zinovyev, the Materialism of Marx and Engels and their class struggle, proletariat
dictatorship are the mistakes and idiocies:
"All in all, Engels talked so much rot of
every kind, that now all the world’s academies of science should be directed to
rectify his mistakes and idiocies."(http://izquotes.com/quote/280562)
In the first years of Lenin and Stalin, Russian people's revolt
against Communism, and their failure in economics and politics proved that
Marxism was a valueless philosophy.
II. MARXISM, AS A
VOLUNTARISM
In fact, their philosophy was not materialism but
voluntarism and Idealism. Communists always focused on theory and spirit.
Lenin said:" Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary
movement. [1].
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Hồ Chí Minh, Trường
Chinh, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Lê Duẩn had a lot of books representing
their theory and policy in order to prove that they were the theorists as well
the good leaders..
Marx said:" When, in the course of development, class distinctions have
disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast
association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political
character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power
of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with
the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself
as a class; if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class,
and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it
will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the
existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have
abolished its own supremacy as a class.(Communist
Manifesto)
Karl Marx and Engels also said:" The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from
under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and
appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are
its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally
inevitable.(Communist Manifesto)
Those were the
words of the voluntarists, not the materialists. Those words were pushed by
their ambition, their desire not by careful study of the scientists.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong with their rapid industrialization and central
control of the economy, Stalin with the cult of personality in the Soviet
Union; Mao Zedong with the second Five-Year Plan, known as the Great Leap
Forward,
were the actions of the blind voluntarists.
Richard Pipes wrote:" One of the
controversial subjects is the history of communism is the role played in
it by ideology- specifically that labeled Marxism-Lenism. Some scholars
believed that the movement and the regimes to which it gave
rise were driven by ideas, for which reason they refer to the Soviet Union, and
Maoist China as "ideocracies" that is, systems rule ideas "
[2]
Trần Độ criticized communist materialism :
" Karl Marx 's philosophy is the materialism
but in reality, communists followed idealism. This ideology believes absolutely
in the idea, and the spirit. They think that idea and spirit are
the decisive elements in all their works. They believe that the propaganda and
the slogans would lead them to the success. (MỘT CÁI NHÌN TRỞ LẠI II , 5)[3]
Communism becomes Voluntarism consequently Communism is anti-scientific.
Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a
systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of
testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In modern use,
"science" more often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, not only
the knowledge itself. It is "often treated as synonymous with 'natural and
physical science', and thus restricted to those branches of study that relate
to the phenomena of the material universe and their laws, sometimes with
implied exclusion of pure mathematics. This is now the dominant sense in
ordinary use (Wikipedia).
The objects of
science are the visible, touchable and measurable. The laws of science are
exact in everywhere and every time. But Menchevish and Bolchevish, Lenin
and Marx, Stalin and Trotsky, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are so contradictory
that caused the tragic fighting between them.Their fights prove that communism
is not exact, not precise, and not scientific.
Science has
two characteristics: objective and precise. Marx, Lenin, Stalin always said
that Communism is indispensable, the death of Capitalism is inevitable... In proportion as the antagonism between
classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will
come to an end...Communists have a world to win." Those are the dreams
or the desires of Marx, Engels , but they are subjective and ambiguous.
Lenin,
Stalin, Mao Zedong were not the economists but they pushed for more rapid industrialization,
central control of the economy, and the collectivisation of agriculture that
caused the famine in USSR and in China. The death toll
from famine in USSR and China at that time is estimated at between 60 million
people (Wikipedia). Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong were not the economists, and
their cadres working in the government, in the collective farms and in the
collective workshops were the peasants, not the economists, therefore their
failure was inevitable. Nikolai Bukharin and Alexey Rykov opposed
Stalin's policies, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping criticized Mao Zedong as a
result they were punished by Stalin and Mao Zedong. Stalin and Mao Zedong's
policies were based on their ambition, their pride and stupidity, not on the
scientific and objective study. Moreover, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao
Zedong wrote but they never verified what they wrote and what they said.
Karl Marx 's
materialism is not science but an ideology. Aleksandr Zinovyev was right when
he said:
"Unlike science, an
ideology is constructed of conventional ambiguous expressions, which require
interpretation. It is impossible to verify or experimentally confirm an
ideological statement, one cannot refute these for they are meaningless. […]
While arising, an ideology may have pretensions to be scientific. But having become
an ideology, it loses all the major characteristics of science.
Marxism disguises itself
as science and owing to this it is easier for Marxism to portray the existing
society as acting on the basis of scientific laws of his history, to portray
the leadership’s selfishness and idiocy as ingenious scientific foresight etc...
“None
of the Marxist concepts (literally – not a single one!) matches the logical
rules of scientific concepts.”(
http://izquotes.com/quote/280562)
III. COMMUNISM, A
PHILOSOPHY OF FAILURE
At the end of 20th century, people in the world realized the failure of
the Communism. But from the antiquity, many philosophers had criticized the
Communism. Communism failed due to many reasons:
1. Communism is an imaginary work
What Marx and
Engels wrote are only their dreams if not their deceits. Boris Yelsin said:
"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism
was just an idea, just pie in the sky.(brainyquote)
Ronald Reagan said:
2. Communism is
contrary to people's desire. Communists ' slogan with freedom,
democracy, equality, for people, for proletariat class is communist's
propaganda, communist deception art. When the people realized the Communists'
promises had been lies they refused to cooperate, as everything belonged to the
government. Farmers grew only what they needed, since all surplus went to
the Communist state. Factory workers went on strike and refused to work,
so that production fell far below their previous output. The true communism
needs three characteristics: humanity, democracy, and socialism. If we want to
build a classless society, we must practice a lot of morality such as
compassion, charity, and fraternity. Brutality, dictatorship, totalitarianism
are contrary to communism. Humanity means freedom. Nobody can not deceive
people and force people to do anything. Real communism is real freedom. Seize
people property, force people to work in the collective farms or
workshops are contrary to morality, democracy and freedom. One party state and
dictatorship are contrary to democracy and freedom. Communist parties in China
and Vietnam now practice "Innovation policy", and abolish "
socialism", not supporting the poor people, the proletariat class.
Communists now become red capitalists. They do not care about their aims for a
classless state, abolition of exploitation.They only focus on money, and find
all way to enrich.
3.Communists torture and expel the intellectuals
Communists only focus on the peasants and workers when they consider the
intellectuals as the "enemies of people".
Communist leaders were not the experts but they launched many ambitious plans ;
and communist
functionaries were illiterate but manage the national economy and business.
When Monarchy and Capitalism respect the intellectuals, communism
tortures and expels them. In the revolt 1917, Lenin, Stalin expelled the
intellectuals and promoted the peasants. Lack of experts, Stalin must hire a
lot of foreign experts to design new factories, supervise construction,
instruct workers and improve manufacturing processes. The most notable foreign
contractor was Albert Kahn's firm that designed and built 521 factories between
1930 and 1932. As a rule, factories were supplied with imported equipment.
Official Soviet estimates stated the annual rate of growth at 13.9%;
Russian and Western estimates gave lower figures of 5.8% and even 2.9%. Indeed,
one estimate is that Soviet growth became temporarily much higher after
Stalin's death.(Wikipedia-Stalin)
Richard
Pipes said of the labor force in Russia:
" A 1922 survey of
Communist Party's membership in the Soviet Union revealed that only 0.6percent
had completed higher education, and 6.4 percent had secondary school diplomas.
One the basic of such evidence, one Russia historian concluded that 92% of the
party's membership was functionally illiterate ( 4,7 percent was literally
illiterate)...(Communism, 156)
In a short time,Vietnam now have 30,000
doctors but a majority of them are the false doctors.
Communism is a philosophy to destroy the society when Marx pointed out the
theory of class struggle, abolition of property, and abolition of eternal
truths, all religion, all morality, and all past historical
experience. Communism is a philosophy to
destroy a nation when Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong launched the
industrialization and collectivization. Communism is a philosophy of genocide.
Ernest Renan was right when he said:"Communism is in conflict with human
nature."
Communism is contrary to democracy, so Andre Malraux also said:" Communism
destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.(brainyquote.)
4. The failure of Communism
From the beginning of Soviet Union, until Mao Zedong's death, communism
experienced a great number of failure although they had a number of
success in the field of Military Science.
1. In economics, communism system leads to famine and the death of
million people in Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Vietnam. In
Soviet Union, the first years of collectivization it was estimated that
industrial production would rise by 200% and agricultural production by 50%,
but these expectations were not realized. Stalin's regime moved to force
collectivization of agriculture. But Collectivization meant a drastic drop in
living standards for many peasants, and it faced violent reaction among the
peasantry. In China, in January 1958, Mao Zedong launched the
second Five-Year Plan, known as the Great Leap Forward.The Great Leap Forward
led to an approximately 15% drop in grain production in 1959 followed by a further
10% decline in 1960 and no recovery in 1961, and
caused the death of some 30 million Chinese peasants between 1959 and
1962 and about the same number of births were lost or postponed. Further, many
children who became emaciated and malnourished during years of hardship and
struggle for survival died shortly after the Great Leap Forward came to an end
in 1962.(Wikipedia)
R.J. Rummel, in his book Statistics of Democide, estimates the death
toll from all causes from 1945-56 in Vietnam:
The
probable democide for this four year period then totals 283,000 North
Vietnamese. There was also those who died in prison or at forced labor from
1945 to 1956. One estimate of 500,000 dead from President Nixon. ..Based on
other estimates of the prison/camp population I assumed a 50,000 camp
population per year and an unnatural death rate of 2 percent per year, on par
with the Chinese rate and much lower than for the Soviet gulag. This gives me a
low of 24,000 dead. . . Putting together all these consolidations and calculations,
I figure that for the years 1945 to 1956 the Vietnamese communists likely
killed 242,000 to 922,000 people.(Wikipedia)
2. Communism eradicates culture.
By the
wholesale elimination of such individuals, the intellectual and moral fibers of
the respective populations were degraded immeasurably. Richard Pipes offers one
example of this phenomenon:
“In Russia, which
experienced Communism the longest, the population has been robbed of
self-reliance. Since under the Soviet regime all orders pertaining to
nonpersonal affairs had to emanate from above and initiative was treated as a
crime, the nation has lost the ability to make decisions in big matters and
small. People wait for orders. Communism also killed in them the work ethic and
a sense of public responsibility.”(Communism, 159)
3. Communism accomplished through
corruption, and blackmail.
In our world, a majority of people are greedy.
Due to education, morality and law, many people do not dare to do wrong.
It seems that all communist leaders are the greedy and ambitious
persons. Greed and ambition are the nature of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong,
Hồ Chí Minh, Pol Pot.
In Communist Manifesto, Marx
expressed his ambition to govern the world and put the york on the
people's neck. Lenin, Stalin. Mao Zedong, Hồ Chí Minh, Pol Pot also showed
their power: the power to force people to obey their command, and the power to
kill million people in a short time.
Hồ Chí Minh robbed Phan Chu Trinh, Phan Văn Trường,
Phan Bội Châu, Hồ Học Lãm of their name and their works. Hồ Chí Minh sold Phan
Bội Châu to the French and sold Vietnam to China. Now, communists seize
banks, and people's land and houses.
Communism's abolition of property also caused ambition and greed for the
communists and people. Richard Pipes criticized Communism: "The goal of communism, abolition of property,
inevitably leads to the abolition of liberty and legality. The nationalization
of productive resources far from liberating men from enslavement by things as
Marx and Engels had envisioned, converts them into slaves of their rulers
and,because of endemic shortages make them more materialistic than ever"
(Communism, 152)
Communism with abolition of property is a occasion for the communists to
robe the public property.The bribery and corruption in the communist
society developed due to the greed of communism and due to lack of justice and
democracy. We can say that communists are more greedy than capitalists.
Communism never worked. It brought wars, suffering and many people died because
of it. Winston Churchill is right when he said:" Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of
misery.
( Brainyquote)
And Alexei Sayle said:
"I always thought communism was crap,
really."( brainyquote)
If we compare communist system to capitalist system, we will realize that
capitalism is better than communist when the GDP per capita in the North
is $900 in the South $ 13.000 ( Pipes, 152)
IV. COMMUNISM, AS A FORM OF RELIGION
Communism now becomes a religion.
Communists are dogmatists. Dogma is the official system of belief or
doctrine held by a religion, or a particular group or organization. It serves
as part of the primary basis of an ideology or belief system, and it cannot be
changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm, or the
ideology itself. They can refer to acceptable opinions of philosophers or
philosophical schools, public decrees, or issued decisions of political
authorities.(Wikipedia)
Dogmatism a method of thinking by which certain propositions are turned into
rigid conclusions that are applied without regard for the concrete conditions
of life. Marxism demands that its adherents endeavor to ’’prevent science from
becoming a dogma, in the bad sense of the term, from becoming something dead,
frozen, and ossified” (V. I. Lenin, Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 18,
p. 138).
Marxist materialist dialectics, with its principle that “there is no
abstract truth, truth is concrete,” is the antipode of the metaphysical
rationality of dogmatism.(E.P.SITKOVSKII. encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dogmatism
)
The
oretically, Marxist-Leninists
criticized religion:"Religion is the opium of the people"
Marxist-Leninists also struggle against all manifestations of dogmatism.
In fact, Marxism now becomes a religion. David Miliband said:
" Communism was meant to be an
alternative religion".( .brainyquote)
Personality cult in Communist world and the
blind believes in Marx's teachings are the manifestation of dogmatism.
Dogmatism is the results of stupidising people in education and in propaganda.
Just like the medieval church, the Communist Party promoted the idea of saints,
people whose total devotion to the Communist cause was a good and holy thing
and entitled them to be worshiped. The Communists even revived the
bizarre medieval practice of worshiping the dead bodies of the saints; they
built massive mausoleums in which they placed the embalmed bodies of their dead
leaders and forced their people to worship them.
Just like the Russian Orthodox Church, the Communists also created icons,
pictures of Communist leaders whom people were to worship. In North Korea, for
example, it is even a crime to destroy a picture of the late dictator Kim Il
Sung. In China, the Chinese considered the Red Book of Mao Zedong as a Bible.
In Vietnam, communists forced people to worship Hồ Chí Minh 's picture.
Like all religions, Communism is irrational,
dogmatic and based on faith rather than science. Just like some religions, Communism had its Holy Books which
were treated as Holy Scripture, namely the writings of Lenin, Mao, Marx and
others--all of which were far from scientific. Marx held and promoted some
beliefs which were later disproved by science, for example Marx taught that
many human characteristics we now know to be inherited through genetics were
caused by environmental factors. When scientists in 1930s Russia pointed this
fact out, Stalin reacted by throwing the scientists into the Gulag just like
the Church imprisoned Galileo.
Like most religions, Communism operated on irrational faith; people in
Communist countries had to have absolute faith in the Communist system and its
leaders. Thinking for oneself was strictly verboten in Stalin's Russia, Mao's
China, and Ho's Vietnam. Those who questioned Communism and its leaders were
treated as heretics by the Communist state.
Just like the Church in Medieval Europe, the Communists tortured and killed
those who refused to adopt the official faith. Just like the Church, the
Communists promoted the belief that governmental authorities were all-knowing,
all-powerful and sanctioned by God, and the idea that refusing to bow to
authority was a sin.
Trần Trọng Kim wrote about the Communist religion:" Based on its
organization and action, we can conclude that Communist party is a new
religion. Similarly to other religions, communists pay attention to the faith.
When the old religions believe in the Heaven, communists believe only in
materials, and in the Heaven in this world. The communists must believe in the
theory of Karl Marx and Lenin. They only worship Karl Marx and Lenin
instead of the other gods. If they did not believe in Marx, Lenin, or
protest against the communist leaders, they would be punished like
Trotsky and the members of the Fourth International.
(TRẦN TRỌNG KIM * MỘT CƠN GIÓ BỤI, 37 )
According to Robert
Vincent Daniels: "Bureaucratized
dogmatism, a spreading of mass myth that put entire peoples and continents
under the power cruel and treacherous demagogues and destruction and
degeneration from foresecable
consequences of swift changes in the conditions of life in our planet."[4]
Trần Xuân Bách wrote:
Today, the scientific thoughts replace the
dogmatic thoughts. History now changes rapidily. Marx gave us the weapon of
dialectic materialism and historical dialectics, not the Bible. The
application of Marxism must base on the historical circumstances....We must
have scientific thinking. Following loyally each line in the Marx's Bible we
cannot save Marxism.TRẦN
XUÂN BÁCH * CHỦ NGHĨA XÃ HỘI
V. COMMUNISM AS A FORM OF FASCISM
According to Wikipedia, Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian
nationalism. Fascists seek to unify their nation through a totalitarian state
that seeks the mass mobilization of the national community through discipline,
indoctrination, and physical training. Fascism utilizes a vanguard party to
initiate a revolution to organize the nation upon fascist principles Fascism
views direct action, including political violence and war, as a means to
achieve national rejuvenation, spirit and vitality. Fascism and Communism
followed the Totalitarianism. They are the form of tyranny.
The evil philosophies of fascism and communism were the two great 20th century
mass killers. Of these, communism was the greatest killer. 150 million men,
women and children have been murdered by socialism so far, and the killing
continues today, notably in North Korea, China and Vietnam.
VI. COMMUNISM AS A FORM OF IMPERALISM
Imperialism is a policy of extending
control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or
maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial conquest or through
indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other
countries. The term is often used to describe the policy of a country in
maintaining colonies and dominance over distant lands, regardless of whether
the country calls itself an empire. Imperialism draws heavy criticism on the
grounds that it is a form of economic exploitation in which the imperialist
power makes use of other countries as sources of raw materials and cheap labor,
shaping their economies to suit its own interests and keeping their people in
poverty. When imperialism is accompanied by overt military conquest, it is also
seen as a violation of freedom and human rights, as well as self-determination.
Marx and Engels ' ambition expressed clearly in Communist Manifesto:
- They want to export their communism to the whole world. It is a global plan of the imperialism (They have a world to win...Working men of all countries, unite!)
-They want to overthrow all governments in the world to build the communist society. They want to seize political and economical power and to abolish private property, and destroy all traditional culture. It is an imperialism and a dictatorship in politics and in thought.(The
communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional
relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical
rupture with traditional ideas.In
short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement
against the existing social and political order of things.They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.)
According to Wikipedia, the informal term "Soviet Empire" is used by
critics of the Soviet Union to refer to that country's imperialist foreign
policy during the Cold War. These nations were independent countries with
separate governments that set their own policies, but those policies had to
remain within certain limits decided by the Soviet Union. Failure to stay
within the limits could result in military intervention by the Warsaw Pact.
Countries in this situation are often called satellite states. This arrangement
was always unofficial, and the Soviet government always denied having any power
over other countries.
Though the Soviet Union was not ruled by an emperor and declared itself
anti-imperialist, critics argue that it exhibited tendencies common to historic
empires. Some scholars hold that the Soviet Union was a hybrid entity
containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states. It
has also been argued that the USSR practiced colonialism as did other imperial
powers. China after Deng Xiaoping becomes a wealthy country. In 20th century,
Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, and occupied the border and islands of
Vietnam. In 21th century, they declared that the Pacific Ocean belongs to them.
In 1978, Vietnam occupied Cambodia. It is clear that Communists are
imperialists or colonialists although their slogans are anti-imperialist,
anti-colonialist, protecting the peace of the world.
Trần Trọng Kim wrote about the new imperialism:
"The communists do not struggle for their
country, but for liberation of the proletariat class in the world, and
for the abolition of the hostility of one nation to another in
order to build a harmonious world governed by the Pope in Russia. As a
result, the communist countries must surrender Russia like the China in the Qin
Shi Huangdi dynasty. If a communist country do not obey the Russian Pope they
will be expeled like Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslava although the Russian
Communist leaders declared itself anti-imperialist.( TRẦN
TRỌNG KIM * MỘT CƠN GIÓ BỤI 37.)
VII. COMMUNISM AS A FORM OF CAPITALISM
After the communists seize power in a country, they become automatically the red capitalists. They have a lot unlimited power, they can do every thing without the control of people and press. They become the greatest red capitalists because all the national property are in their hand.
After seizing power, Lenin, Stalin, Erich
Honnecker, Nicolai Ceausescu, Mao Zedong, Hồ Chí Minh became the kings, and the
tyrants and the other communist leaders became the red capitalists when people
became slaves. In the USSR in 1933 workers' real earnings sank to about
one-tenth of the 1926 level. Common and political prisoners in labor camps were
forced to perform unpaid labor, and communists and Komsomol members were
frequently "mobilized" for various construction projects. Why? They
are the biggest capitalists because the property in the
country now in the hand of a few communists. They take monopoly of
economic and political power. Moreover, they rob the banks, they occupy land
and houses of people. They sell Vietnam to Chinese communists. They make money
by bribery and corruption.
Willy Lam wrote: "Communist Party Congress closed this week by
putting the spotlight on the rising political fortunes of businessmen. It's a
striking change for an authoritarian party whose declared mission is to defend
the proletariat from the capricious whims of exploitative capitalists. Some 20
entrepreneurs were included in the policy-setting Central Committee of 204 full
and 167 alternate members named by the 2,200-odd delegates.
To be sure, the great majority of the
committee members are still senior officials of the party, government and
military. Yet not a single genuine peasant or worker - whom President Hu Jintao
has vowed to serve under his much-cited "putting people first" policy
- was inducted into the central committee. The "red capitalists" have
arrived.
Members of what critics have called the new
party aristocracy include the chief executives of government-controlled
conglomerates that are listed on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
The top brass of China Telecom, the State Grid Corporation of China, PetroChina
and China Construction Bank, among others, were all elevated. There was one
representative from the private sector, the chairman of Haier, the largest Chinese
maker of home appliances.
The theoretical justification for the
businessmen' s ascent up the party hierarchy is former President Jiang Zemin's
so-called "Theory of the Three
Represents," which says, among other things, that the party
must recruit elite members of the "new classes" who represent
"the highest productivity and the foremost culture."
The controversial theory was enshrined in the
party Constitution at the 16th Party Congress in 2002, which also endorsed Hu
as Jiang's successor.
Since 2003, Hu and his ally Prime Minister
Wen Jiabao have seldom mentioned the "Three Represents." Instead,
they have focused their public campaigns on their so-called "scientific
theory of development," which underscores the need to give peasants and
workers a bigger share of the fruits of economic growth, as well as to promote
social justice and equal opportunities for all. . .Not everyone
approves. There was a groundswell of discontent against the "favoring of
the rich," which was evident from the voting patterns of Congress
delegates, who were chosen from a reasonably broad spectrum of society. Most of
the "red capitalists" scored poorly: Six of the 12 alternate members
who garnered the least number of ballots were state entrepreneurs and managers
of government investment houses.It is probably because of the leadership's
anxiety over alienating the leftist members and cadres, several hundred of whom
wrote a petition to the Congress protesting the rise of businessmen, that these
bosses only qualified as alternate members.. .
What accounts for the success of the red
capitalists?
First, the monopolies seem to be a law unto
themselves. The 160 enterprises control assets of $1.6 trillion - some 60
percent of the nation's GDP - and made more than $93 billion in profits last
year. Chinese consumer associations have complained about the high prices of
the products and services of several of these giants.
While they are in theory under close government
supervision, senior executives give themselves salaries and perks up to 10
times more than those of ordinary state-owned enterprises.
Second, they have prevented smaller but more
aggressive and flexible private firms from entering their lucrative markets.
Even worse, a disproportionately large number of the CEO and other senior slots
have gone to former officials and the offspring of party elders. For example,
the son and daughter of the former Prime Minister Li Peng, who remains
unpopular due to his association with the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, are
running two electricity conglomerates.
It is perhaps for these reasons that in his
political report to the Congress, Hu stated for the first time that it was
imperative to "deepen the reform of monopolistic enterprises by
introducing competitive mechanisms and boosting government supervision and
social scrutiny."
But precisely because so many party cadres -
and their spouses and offspring - are earning big money in these companies,
Hu's instruction will likely fall on deaf ears. This is despite the widespread
recognition that the collusion between officials and business is the biggest
factor behind ever-worsening corruption in China.
And yet there are even more important reasons
why party officials may have decided to tolerate these conglomerates.
First, these behemoths ensure that the
party-state apparatus will maintain control over the most crucial parts of the
economy. When the Soviet empire started crumbling in the early 1990s, the late
Deng Xiaoping warned that the party must never let go of its grip over big
business.
Moreover, given the fact that during the 1989
pro-democracy movement, student demonstrators got substantial financial support
from a sizeable number of private businessmen, Beijing harbors doubts about the
loyalty of private entrepreneurs.
But clearly Beijing's attitude toward
free-market entrepreneurs is changing. After successfully persuading more of
the nation's estimated 11 million private bosses to join the Communist Party,
the party leadership has become more confident that businessmen in general will
not jeopardize their fortunes by engaging in anti-Beijing activities.
A much circulated instruction from Hu notes,
"We must more comprehensively rally members of the new social sectors
around the party and government." It is conceivable that once these
nouveau riche party members have demonstrated their fealty to the leadership,
substantial numbers of non-state businessmen may be elevated to the Central
Committee at the 18th Party Congress five years down the road.
It is true that remnant Maoists within the
CCP will continue to oppose the enfranchisement of the capitalists. Yet the
party's left wing is being relentlessly marginalized as Marx's ideals become
more irrelevant by the day in free-wheeling, quasi-capitalist China.[5]
Vietnamese and Chinese communists now become the new class, the red
capitalists. They can invest many million in the USA, and send their sons and
daughters to the USA, Canada, Australia to study. But the slave trade and the
branch of body business developed because they can bring a lot of income for
the exploiting class.
Proletariat class now becomes poorer. In the capitalist and monarchical
society, the poor people can go to schools and hospitals without fees. But now
they have to pay fees. If not, they must die, and their children must be
illiterate. Although the students and patients pay a lot of fees, the teachers,
the doctors and nurses still live in poverty because communists in school and
in hospital seize all profits for them.
Communists are also a kind of exploiting class.
In the capitalist world, the laborer salary merely suffices to prolong
and reproduce a bare existence, but in the communist world, the
worker salary does not suffices his need at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith was right when he said:
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under
communism, it's just the opposite".(brainyquote )
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said:" Communism is
inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the
strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.( brainyquote)
VIII.COMMUNISM, MACHIAVELLIANISM
According the Oriental philosophy, there are two kind
of politic policies.Vương đạo王道 and Bá đạo霸道.Vương đạo means the policy of humanity when bá đạo
is the policy of violence and brutality.
It has been a common view among political philosophers that there exists a
special relationship between moral goodness and legitimate authority. Many
authors (especially those who composed mirror-of-princes books or royal advice
books during the Middle Ages and Renaissance) believed that the use of
political power was only rightful if it was exercised by a ruler whose personal
moral character was strictly virtuous. Thus rulers were counseled that if they
wanted to succeed—that is, if they desired a long and peaceful reign and aimed
to pass their office down to their offspring—they must be sure to behave in
accordance with conventional standards of ethical goodness.That is the politics
of humanity.
Machiavellianism (or machiavellian mask) is, according to the Oxford English
Dictionary, "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or
in general conduct", deriving from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and
writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) , who wrote Il Principe (The
Prince) and other works. For Machiavelli, there is no moral
basis on which to judge the difference between legitimate and illegitimate uses
of power. Rather, authority and power are essentially coequal: whoever has
power has the right to command; but goodness does not ensure power and the good
person has no more authority by virtue of being good. Thus, in direct
opposition to a moralistic theory of politics, Machiavelli says that the only
real concern of the political ruler is the acquisition and maintenance of power
(although he talks less about power per se than about “maintaining the
state.”) Only by means of the proper application of power, Machiavelli
believes, can individuals be brought to obey and will the ruler be able to
maintain the state in safety and security.
He says, “Since there cannot be good laws without good arms, I will not
consider laws but speak of arms” (Machiavelli 1965, 47). In other words, the
legitimacy of law rests entirely upon the threat of coercive force; authority
is impossible for Machiavelli as a right apart from the power to enforce it.
Consequently, Machiavelli is led to conclude that
fear is always preferable to affection in subjects, just as violence and
deception are superior to legality in effectively controlling them.
Machiavellianism is politics of violence.
Communists followed Machiavellianism. Lenin said:" There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A
scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."brainyquote.com
"One man with a gun can control 100
without one."(brainyquote)
Their methods of action consisted of four policies: trick, lie,
deceit and terrorism.
1. Trick
Trick has a lot of meaning, but in this text, trick
means device ; scheme, ruse, craftiness, and mischievous act. After the
assassination of Kirov, which may have been orchestrated by Stalin, Stalin
invented a detailed scheme to implicate opposition leaders in the murder,
including Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev. The investigations and trials
expanded. Stalin passed a new law on "terrorist organizations and terrorist
acts" that were to be investigated for no more than ten days, with no
prosecution, defense attorneys or appeals, followed by a sentence to be
executed "quickly Stalin and Mao Zedong supported Hồ Chí Minh in order to
conquer the world due their ambition of the imperialism not by the spirit of
proletarian internationalism. Lê Duẩn confessed that
Vietnamese communists have the duty to fight for the USSR and China. Hồ
Chí Minh was a lackey of China, he helped China to destroy Vietnam, he sold
Vietnam to China. Hồ Chí Minh invited France to Vietnam in order to
expel Chiang Kai-shek 'soldiers from Vietnam. Hồ Chí Minh spoke ill of
the Vietnamese Nationalist parties to French and American. Those were the
communists tricks.
2.Lie
Lenin believed that "A
lie told often enough becomes the truth". .brainyquote.com
Marx and Engels were the liars when he affirmed
that the capitalists would die and the proletarians would be the digger graves
for them, that communism is a classless and stateless society in which
everybody is equal, and communism is more wealthy than capitalism.
Lenin was a liar when he proclaimed that Proletarian democracy is a million times more democratic
than any bourgeois democracy... Soviet power is a million times more democratic than the
most democratic bourgeois republic.... The present form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, is a
million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republic.http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/democracy.htm
Communists always tell lie, so Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said:
""When a Communist lies to you, stand up and tell him that
he is lying. If you don't dare to say that he lies, walk away. If you do not dare
to walk away, do not recite the lie that you heard to anybody."
" In our country the lie has become not just a
moral category but a pillar of the State." (brainyquote)
3.Deception
Communists use education, propaganda, and media to deceit people.
The teachers, the poets, the novelists become their tools.With the theory of
Realist Socialism, communists force the writers to praise the leader and party
although all of them are the thieves. What Marx and Engels proclaimed
such as the proletariat class has a the world to
win, that Capitalism is inevitable. communists supported the workers and build
a classless state, are the deceitful
words.Deception is the important
methods of communists in all countries in the world. Lenin focused on the
education when he said: Give me four years to teach
the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted"; Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a
Bolshevik forever." (brainyquote)
Communists follow the education indoctrination and
the method of brain washing.
Communists use the deception in order to achieve
quick victory, to conceal their failure and their stupidity. Professor
Phạm Thiều said:" Because of
stupidity, Communists do wrong. Because of their faults, they tell lie" MỘT CÁI NHÍN TRỞ LẠI 2
Lenin proclaimed his method of deception without
hesitation:
"We
would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the
masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the
immediate task of the coming revolutionary action."[6]
Deception becomes popular in the
communist society, the communists tell lie, people tell lie too.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also said:
"The communists make the people deceitful "
visiontoamerica
In memoirs " Một Cơn Gió Bụi"
(A Dusty Wind), Trần Trọng Kim complained the deception and violence of
both Vietnamese communists and the French in 1945-50 ( 58-60).
4.Brutality
Some writers said that communism is aliened but in
fact, at the beginning, Communism expressed itself the cruelty. At the beginning, it had the
seeds of own destruction in its body. Brutality and failures
began with dictatorship of proletariat and abolition of private
property.Brutality and abolition of private property lead to the revolt
of people and prove the faults and failures of Communism.
The most important characteristic of
Communism is brutality. Communists use brutality to depress and to punish
people. Brutality is a method to terrorize people.
Communism is a philosophy of
anti-humanity. Class struggle, proletariat dictatorship, abolition of property,
industrialisation, and collectivisation are the policies of
tyrants, killers, thieves and robbers. Dictatorship is a method of terrorism.
When decided the policy of dictatorship of proletariat he decided to kill many
million people to establish his communist society. Lenin gave his
followers the unlimited power to kill, to imprison and torture
people when he defined the "dictatorship
as "power that is limited by nothing, by no laws, that is restrained by
absolutely no rules, that rests directly on coercion" [7].
Communists use violence and terrorism to
govern people. They tell lie, but people do not believe in them; they do
wrong as a result, people revolt against them. It is time that communists kill
people , imprison people and oppress people.
Police, Army and trials are communist's tools. It is estimated that by
the late 1980's the KGB had a staff of at least 480,000 of whom about a quarter
of million, assisted by tens of millions of informants, engaged in domestic
counterintelligence and surveillance. ( Pipes, 84)
The Great Terror struck at the Party membership as well as ordinary
citizens. At it height, in 1937 and 1938., at least one of half million people,
the vast majority of them innocent of any wrong doing even the communist
criteria, were hauled before troikas, tribunals made up of the first secretary
of the regional party, the procurator, and the local security police chief.
The Red Army did nor escape the Terror. of its five marshals, three
suffered " liquidation", of the army's fifteen generals , thirteen
perished, of nine navy admirals, only one survived. The purge also
affected the party elite. 139 members and candidates members of the Central
Committee elected at the Seventeenth Party Congress in 1933, 70 percent were
executed. All of Lenin's close associates including Zinoview, and Kamenev
suffered arrest and torture, and one physically and mentally, were forced to
stand staged "trials" in which they confessed to the most heinous
crimes including espionage, terrorist acts, and attempts to restore
"capitalism? (Pipes, 64)
The collectivized peasants were required to work a designated number of days
per year for minimal wages in money and grains to fulfill the delivery
norms imposed by state, the state paid the farms kopeks and resold the grains
to consumers as flour and bread for rubles, earning a profit of several hundred
percent. Farmer who failed to meet this norms went hungry. And those who out of
desperation stole food were treated as danger criminals: a notorious decree of
August 1932 provided for the death penalty or ten years of hard labor for any
thief or damage of socialist (read communist party) property; which term
covered stealing a few stalks of grains. Under this law, in the sixteen months
that followed, over 125,000 peasants were sentenced, 5,400 to death. (Pipes,
60-61)
Ordinary citizens, were imprisoned and disappeared because of a charge
remark or denunciation by personal enemies. During 1937 and 1938, the
Security organs detained for alleged "anti Soviet activities
" 1, 548,366 persons of whom 861, 692 were shot, an average of 1,000
executions a day. The majority of the survivors ended up in hard labor camps.
The comparison Tsarist regime between 1825 -1910 the executed for
political crimes 3, 932 persons or in 1942, when German invaded, the
USSR, camp run by Gulag the main administrators body help 2, 350.000
inmates or 1,4 percent of the country's population (Pipes 66-67)
In January 1958, Mao Zedong launched the second Five-Year Plan, known as the
Great Leap Forward, but it was an economic failure. The Great Leap's
failure reduced Mao's prestige within the Party. Forced to take major
responsibility, in 1959, Mao resigned as the State Chairman, China's head of
state, and was succeeded by Liu Shaoqi. In July, senior Party leaders convened
at the scenic Mount Lu to discuss policy. At the conference, Marshal Peng
Dehuai, the Minister of Defence, criticized Great-Leap policies in a private
letter to Mao. Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to wreak revenge on
those who had dared to challenge him over the Great Leap Forward.The Revolution
led to the destruction of much of China's traditional cultural heritage and the
imprisonment of a huge number of Chinese citizens, as well as creating general
economic and social chaos in the country. Millions of lives were ruined during
this period, as the Cultural Revolution pierced into every part of Chinese
life. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, perished in
the violence of the Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong committed many crimes and
mistakes but he did not repent, he still destroyed Chinese culture and caused a
genocide in order to conceal his failure. (Wikipedia)
In Vietnam, in 1954, Ho Chi Minh launched the Land Reform and killed
about 500,000 poor people. In Land Reform and Party Reform, Hồ Chi Minh killed
even the peasants, the communists, the cadres following him. At that
time, Hồ Chí Minh, Trường Chinh, Tố Hữu punished brutally the
intellectuals in the Nhân Văn Giai Phẩm movement that revolted for
freedom and democracy.
Communists chose brutality because they think
that violence would lead them to the fast victories.
Cruelty and terrorism are the usual
methods in the Communist world. Trần Độ criticized the Vietnamese communist
police:
It is equipped with the modern
terrorist tools which are more abundant than the old regimes (feudal and
colonial regimes)... The police investigate with setting the trap, making the
false evidence and torturing people violently in many days. When we did not
seize power yet, we condemned them but today we use them earnestly, and
defend them ferociously. (MỘT
CÁI NHÌN TRỞ LẠI 2 ,3)
Deception and violence always get along.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said:" Any man who has once proclaimed violence
as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Violence can only be concealed by a
lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.(brainyquote)
They did not hear Boris Yeltsin proclaiming:
You can build a throne with bayonets, but
you can't sit on it for long. Communists are incurable, they must be eradicated. (brainyquote)
They also did
not understand Vladimir Putin's words:"
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing
in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is
vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
History proves that all
dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only
democratic systems are not transient. (brainyquote)
Communists followed Machiavellianism as a
result, they followed violence and practiced trick, lie, deception, and
brutality.Thus immorality is also their nature and their policy.
One of the most important aims of Communism is
destroy all tradition culture. Communism disdains the morality. For the
communists, morality is a difficulty for the revolution. Without morality, they
can do everything, they can kill people, rob people and maltreat people.
Without morality, they can easily deceit, sell their people and sell their
country.
Trần Trọng Kim was right when he wrote of the
immorality of the Communism:
In reality, Communists do not accept
morality. They think that morality is the depraved custom of the feudal society that carried out to deceit
people, hence they must abolish it . Who believe in the morality
are the dull persons. The radical people are the immoral people. Thus,
the communists abandon their parents, their brothers and their friends.
They only obeyed their party leaders. The communists can do every thing
although they have to kill, to deceit people. Who make profits for party are
the good communists.The good communists do not care about family, society,
traditional customs They abolish traditional
culture to build a new society. They do not struggle for their nation and
people, but only for the class.If they say they fight for their nation, it is a
temporary policy (36).
Communist party is the party of thieves, robbers and
killers. Hồ Chí Minh was a professional thief when he robbed Phan Chu
Trinh, Phan Văn Trường of name "Nguyễn Ái Quốc" and their revolution
works, and he robbed Hồ Học Lãm of name Hồ Chí Minh, when he sold Phan Bội Châu
to the French, and sold Vietnam to China. In the Land Reform in Vietnam,
communists forced sons to denounce their parents,wife
to slander her husband, and they destroyed the friendship between the
villagers.
Thus communism caused the death of ten million people
and destroyed traditional morality and spiritual life of the whole
nation. Richard Pipes wrote :
The survivors, too, paid a price. In their
effort to impose total conformity, communist regimes drove into exile,
incarcerated, and silenced those who would not conform, often the ablest
and most enterprising. As a result, some like reverse evolution was set in
motion, which is most dependent and conformist having the best chance of survival.
The enterprising, truthful, and public-minded perished. Communist societies
thus lost the best and found themselves correspondingly impoverished.
In Russia, which experienced Communism the longest,
one of the effects is that the population has been robbed their self-reliance. Since under the Soviet
regime all orders pertaining to non-personal affairs had to emanate from above
and initiative was treated as a crime the nation lost the ability to make
decision, whether in big or small matters (except where criminal
enterprise in concern), people wait for orders. After a brief outburst of
enthusiasm for democracy, the yearning for a strong guiding hand
and reasserted itself . The nation has found itself both incapable and unwilling to stand on its own feet and
take charge of its destiny. .. It has also labeled in them the work ethic and a
sense of public responsibility". (Pipes,158-59)
Communism is a disaster for human kind.
Karl Marx and Engels made their experiments with a cost of the
death of hundred of million people, and million
sufferings of million people. Communism contains in its body the seed of
failure and crimes. Communism destroys everything. It abolishes the
national economy, national education, traditional culture, traditional
morality and spiritual life of people. It has many characteristics, but trick,
lie, deceit and terrorism are its four main methods of action.
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