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Petty bourgeois refugees from Viernam wade into China "One theme emerged particularly clearly. Our shared views outweigh our differences. We both oppose efforts by. others to seek a monolithic world. Neither of us m dispatches international marauders who masquerade as non-aligned to advance big power ambitions in Africa. Neither of us seeks to enforce the political obedience of our neighbours through military force" (Applause).

The speaker. not surprisingly was Brzezinsii. chief hawk oi the Care: administration.

But he was not speaking in some two-bit Mid-west town in the USA but at a banquet in Peking.

Chairman Hua in reply denounced not only "social-imperialism" throughout the world, but also Vietnam's role in aiding USSR expansionism in S.E. Asia.

To make it absolutely clear that in no way would they support the struggles against imperialism-and its agents in Africa, • Huang Hua, Chinese Foreign Minister, rushed out to see the dictator Mobutu to assure his regime of Chinese support and to join in with the growing anti-Communist witch-hunting currently directed against the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Not Huang also mounted the rostrum • at the United Nations session on disarmament to denounce the USSR as the "most dangerous source of a new world war"

Now, it is true that these statements are not new coming from the Chinese During. the struggles in Angola they supported the pro-South African forces against the Cuban-backed MPLA liberation fighters.

What is new is the growth of a cold war situation. The Chinese bureaucracy makes these statements now under conditions of the developing economic crisis of capitalism and increasingly predatory advances towards the workers states.

The actions of the Chinese leadership serve only to aid imperialism and are used as a weapon against the developing struggles of the working class internationally:

How is it then the of one (deformed) workers state can have arrived at such a situation as to endanger the existence of the other workers states?

It is also to be remembered that. revolutionary China was considered by many to be less bureaucratic and with a less Stalinist leadership than existed in the USSR.

Many of the contradictions and pressures on the Chinese leadership are not peculiar to China.

Most experienced Stalinism internationally balances between the pressures of world imperialism and nationalised property relations.

When it comes to making deals with imperialism and holding back the struggles of the working class, the Stalinist bureaucracies are the most experienced and vicious force in the workers movement.

The reactionary "theory" of socialism in one country imposes insoluble contradictions on the development towards a socialist society.

These states are forced into compromises and making concessions to imperialism.

In the case of China, which unlike the USSR is not surrounded by dependent buffer states and still has a predominantly peasant economy, the problems are 1mmense.

75% of China's 950 million people live in the countryside. Unmechanised but intensive production is the rule.

Total production of foodgrains, despite great efforts, has remained at about 0.3 tonnes per person per year ever since 1952.

This is about the lowest possible consumption to keep people alive and in reasonable health.

Splendid isolation

Industrial production too, although far greater than in other developing countries, has not provided the material basis on which to build socialism.

Both steel and coal production, for example, have had a growth rate of only 1.5% per annum.

The methods adopted by Mao and expounded by the so-called "Gang of Four" were ones of splendid isolation and moral exhortations to the Chinese masses as during the "Great Leap Forward"

The new bureaucratic clique around Teng and Hua refugees however favour capitalis: style methods of material incentives, bonuses and heavy penalties for any dissenters.

Aiong with these measures goes the new emphasis on training technocrats and party and military elite.

The most chauvinist, anti-foreign culture aspects of the Mao era have been discarded.

Enshrined

But agreements made out of necessity have been exhalted to the level of great components of communism.

Thus, for example, piecework is enshrined in the new constitution, adopted on March 5 this yeat, as a 'socialist principle' as is the right to accumulate personal wealth. The new official position is that "the fight for production takes precedence over the struggle of the classes"

Because the new bureaucratic clique has continued with Mao's "ultra-left" Stalinist line that "socialfascism" and "social-imperialism" are the main enemy, they cannot turn to the other more developed They also reveal their Stalinist position by placing no confidence in or reliance upon the world working class.

Instead, following the example of Stalin in his 1939 pact with Hitler, the Chinese bureaucrats turned to imperialism looking for favours in return for their anti-Soviet diatribes.

First pay-off Trade agreements have lately been made with Japan, Britain, West Germany, France and the USA -who agreed only last week to supply the People's Republic of China with sounding equipment for mineral deposits which could be put to military use.

No doubt this is just the first pay off for the bureau-

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workers' states, especially the USSR, for assistance.