Perhaps, Miriam, you missed or chose to ignore my point. Members of
the SWP are not "American leftists" by any definition. In fact, a
consistent reading of The Militant reveals that much of its fire is
targeted at the so called left, which includes those who loosely
proclaim themselves "Socialists," outfits such as the Democratic
Socialists of America who draw their legacy from the traitors and
outright collaborators with the German and other European fascists.
That's where reform gets you. The Militant takes a decidedly
internationalist worldview on any subject it covers. I don't, by the
way, necessarily agree with or completely accept all of the editorial
perspectives published in the Militant but by in large, it is a
refreshing departure from the tired old liberal and progressive gang.
On 6/29/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Beijing control over family size is attack on
women
The Militant has pretty much always been against the one child policy, but I
don't think they had it back in the fifties.
___
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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Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 10:41 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Beijing control over family size is attack on
women
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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