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Thursday, October 14, 2010

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Liu Xiabo: pro-capitalist
EXTRACT: "So, what do communists think of Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08? The answer is quite simple on one level. As revolutionary democrats, who believe that the struggle for democracy and socialism are inseparable, we have nothing but sympathy for his platform of democratic demands and individual plight: you cannot help but admire his personal bravery. After all, he has spent a total of nine years in hellish Chinese jails or labour camps. In the shape of Liu Xiaobo we have the politics of sincere conviction and deep commitment. To belittle or denigrate such a person or activity would be cynicism, pure and simple.
But having said that, we are obliged to tell the truth. Liu Xiaobo and his comrades, for all their courage, have no real democratic answers for China - no idea of what is to be done to free the Chinese masses from oppression and exploitation. Rather, when it comes down to it, Xiaobo and the other Charter 08 signatories and activists essentially look to western ‘bourgeois democracy’, especially the United States, for their model or inspiration."
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