Perhaps not. But I think that The Militant just doesn't get China. But most
American leftists don't. The next article that I came upon coincidentally, and
posted to the list, I think, verifies my point of view.
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The Militant has pretty much always been against the one child policy, but I
don't think they had it back in the fifties.
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through
disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were
so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply
a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the
eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory
scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had
not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely,
you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now
have killed him.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
On 6/29/2021 1:17 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Very interesting. I remember when the anti Communist propaganda focused on
the one child policy and forced abortions in China back in the 50's and early
60's. I wonder what The Militant was saying then? The fact is that China
functions with very different values than American leftists, whatever
American leftists think, or thought in the past. It is a very old
civilization with a huge population and ever since the Communists have taken
power, the goal has been to have a planned economy so that starvation would
be eliminated. Personal freedom and Democracy were never the plan. Neither
was conquering other countries. China has always concentrated on itself. If
you visit China, and I have, the social atmosphere is totally different than
it is in the west. It is also obvious that the Chinese are extremely
competent at whatever it is they choose to do. But from the minute you step
off the plane, you know that you are in a controlled environment.
Miriam
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Beijing control over family size is attack on women
https://themilitant.com/2021/06/26/beijing-control-over-family-size-is-attack-on-women/
BY SETH GALINSKY
Vol. 85/No. 26
July 5, 2021
Worried that its population is aging and there won’t be enough young workers
to exploit to maximize state profits, the Chinese government announced last
month that it was raising the limit on the number of children a family is
allowed to three and began a propaganda campaign to encourage more
childbirth. Now Beijing officials are considering dropping all restrictions
on larger families.
The Chinese rulers fear that having a shrinking and aging population is a
barrier to challenging Washington for greater economic and political
influence.
Government interference in the personal decisions of when, if and how many
children a woman has is reactionary. These decisions should be in her hands
alone in conjunction with her family. To make that possible it is necessary
to fight for access to family planning, including aid in conceiving a child
if needed and the right to safe and secure abortion.
At the beginning of the 1970s the Maoist regime in Beijing pressured women to
have fewer children. In 1979 government bureaucrats imposed a general cap of
one child per woman. Those who violated the law had to pay huge fines or were
forced to have abortions.
At the end of 2015, with Chinese women averaging only 1.05 children, the
second lowest in the world, Beijing raised the cap to two. That did little to
increase the birthrate. In China, just like in the U.S., the U.K., France and
other countries, birthrates have been declining for years.
The decline in workers’ real wages, the rise in the cost of living and lack
of child care, a result of the bosses foisting the capitalist crisis on the
backs of working people, are also key to the decline in family formation
worldwide. Even in the United States, the strongest imperialist power, many
young workers today can’t earn enough to live on their own, so they put off
having children.
An affordable family is even harder to establish in China with low wages,
sky-high rents and mortgages, and meager pensions. Child care as well as
nursing homes and other facilities for seniors are further out of reach for
working people there than in the U.S. And it’s women who face the biggest
burden, with the responsibility for children and the elderly falling almost
entirely on the family.
When Xinhua News in China published the results of a poll that asked
22,000 people, “Are you ready for the three-child policy?” Twenty thousand
chose, “I won’t consider it at all.” The poll was quickly deleted from the
agency’s website.
Working-age couples in China often have to take care of “two sets of parents
who don’t have much income for savings or pension plans if any, plus any kids
they already have,” reports Al Jazeera.
While the rulers in Beijing are trying to get women from the majority Han
population to have more babies, they subject women among the mostly Muslim
Uighur people in the Northwest to strict birth control policies.
Long discriminated against and persecuted by Beijing, Uighurs often face
forced sterilization and abortions, reports The Associated Press.
This goes hand in hand with Beijing’s systematic detention of hundreds of
thousands of Uighurs in forced labor camps.
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