Re: "n5667"

Again most of your information is false.

The murder of around 4 million Koreans was done by the United States when it invaded Korea in the early 1950s.

The food crisis in North Korea is caused by several factors. The primary one being a series of natural disasters. Another important cause is the abandonment by the Communist Party of socialist measures subsidizing food. A third cause is economic isolation from the capitalist countries and an end to the favorable trade agreements they had with the Soviet Union and China. This change in favorable trade with China, most importantly impacting oil imports, happened as a result of pressure from the United States. A fourth is the economic backwardness of Korea caused by imperialist capitalism, colonialism, and imperialist war on the Korean Peninsula. A fifth reason is the amount of money North Korea is forced to put into its military.

North Korea is forced to spend a large amount of its GNP on defense due to threats from the United States. The tragic position of the Iraqi people under the guns of American imperialism is a good example as to why North Korea should not let down its defense.

"In Russia, Stalin killed far more of his own country men than Hitler killed throughout the entire war."

Besides the much shorter time Hitler was in power, this statement still just isn’t true unless you count those who died in the fight against fascism. Stalin was no great guy, but he did inherit a system from Lenin and Trotsky that was far superior to capitalism.

"In Cambodia Pol Pot killed millions - anyone with glasses (who could therefore read), even train conductors were eliminated."

Pol Pot was not a communist. His program was one for the de-industrialization of Cambodia bringing the country back to a strictly agrarian economy. As any communist will point out to Anarchists with similar ideas, the people will starve to death under such scenario. And they did. Pol Pot's regime was a total disaster.

The saving grace for Cambodia came in 1979 when both China and Cambodia invaded Vietnam under the urging of the United States. Vietnam quickly repelled the invasions and took the country of Cambodia in one month, handing out food and guns to the people as they swept through the country.

This, however, was not the end of Pol Pot. He remained based in Thailand for many years where his forces, with direct military aid from the United States, carried out terrorist attacks on Vietnamese and Kampuchean forces.

On China, let us not forget the repressive U.S. backed government of Chang Kai Chek that carried out mass murder against leftists.

While Mao Tse-tung made some pretty big blunders, and built a system after Stalin's model (as opposed to the democratic communist model I adhere to), Mao brought China forward from imperialist subjugation and starvation to a powerful country that will likely never have to face things like it did under foreign capitalist control like Japanese death camps and signs on businesses under the rule of the US and European imperialism that said no Chinese or dogs allowed.

With the Chinese revolution women's rights took a tremendous step forward with the barbaric practice of foot binding finally completely eliminated and other steps forward taken, health care became a guaranteed right provided through the communes, a sweeping land reform brought a much better life for poor peasants, formal slavery under the feudal and repressive Dalai Lama was abolished, etc.

Since Mao’s death many of the advances of the Chinese revolution have been lost. Deng Xiao Ping’s reversal of socialist land policies drove many peasants from the land and created unemployment in the 1980s. Free trade zones with foreign capitalist investment have brought horrible exploitation with little going to workers. Guaranteed health care is now gone due to the fact that health care was provided through the communes and American and other capitalist are not forced to provide this basic right when they set up shop.

To a large degree the action at Tianamen Square was protesting this march towards capitalism and the inequalities being created. While crying crocodile tears for those murdered, the imperialists breathed a sigh of relief knowing that their investments were protected.

China, more than other country led by a Stalinist misleadership, has overturned the tremendous advances made by the workers and peasants when the revolution first happened. What is needed to defend and reclaim these gains is an internal political revolution that overthrows the Stalinist Communist Bureaucracy and establishes a democratic communist republic. Imperialist invasion, more capitalism, or a total capitalist counter-revolution would be a terrible step backward for the people of China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba.

U.S. Hands off of Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and China!

For Democratic Socialist Revolution In The United States To Abolish Imperialism, To Meet Human Needs Such As Health Care And Education, To Stop the Degradation Of the Environment for Capitalist Profit, And To Defend and Extend The Bill of Rights!