Ramin Mazaheri - Ill Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China

RAMIN MAZAHERI

Badak Merah Semesta

2020

Ill Ruin Everything You Are:

Ending Western Propaganda on Red China

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Cover Photos by: John Torcasio (cc-by-sa-4.0)

First paperback edition, 2019

My little China girl

You shouldn't mess with me

I'll ruin everything you are

...

And when I get excited

My little China girl says,

Oh baby, just you shut your mouth.

She says, Shhhhhhh.

~ David Bowie - China Girl (1983)

Dedicated to Chinas success in building a

moderately prosperous society for all.

And to the Chinese members of my family.

And to my cousin who loves Chinese BBQ.

Special thanks to two websites: The Saker and The Greanville Post.

These articles first appeared in a serialised form on those two admirable websites, and without their help and support this book would not have been made. I extend my sincere thanks to all of their staff.

www.thesaker.is

www.greanvillepost.com

Socialisms Ignored Success Story:

Iranian Islamic Socialism

E ver since the United States became the worlds main superpower at the end of World War II, they began to behave like they knew everything about the world, and that only they could provide solutions to its problems. Unfortunately, their arrogance has cost themselves and our world very dearly.

I have lived in the US for thirty years. When people ask me if I know the US, I still tell people that I actually do not know America that well. I know my students in the classroom, but I do not know how they interact with their parents when they go home. I know my colleagues and professors at work, but I do not know how they interact with their children and wives or husband at home. Therefore, my knowledge about America is very limited and incomplete. But some American scholars who came to China just a few times or visited other places briefly apparently feel that they know China and other places better than most of the natives.

Of course, Americas ruling elite never want the people in the US to know what is really going on in China. They only want the American people to know what they want them to know about what is going on in China. If American people knew that there is an alternative way of life in the world, the American ruling class will have a difficult time to continue their business as usual. This is the reason behind their many Cold Wars around the world. Much American scholarship about China and the rest of the world was purposely distorted because the rich American foundations, which finance American scholarship, wanted it to be that way. Some scholars, in order to get financial support from these powerful foundations, had to twist their findings to please their funding sources. The irony is that they are deceiving themselves by creating such misinformation about China and the rest of the world. In the end, the chickens will come home to roost.

The Chinese Communist Party did not try to please everybody in China. The Chinese Communist Party in the early days unequivocally stated that it represented the interests of the working class, and that it would suppress the interests of the capitalists. Mr. Ramin Mazaheri justly raises the question of the 1 percent versus the 99 percent because we all live in class societies, and a world of nation states. Therefore, we should realize that there simply is no political policy, which will benefit everybody or every class equally. The Chinese Communist Party never hid its position about this.

What the Chinese Communist Government did - through land reform policies, the policies of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and other programs - was to raise the socioeconomic status of the Chinese working class people, who account for over 90 percent of the Chinese population. When 90 percent of the people in a country benefit from the governments policies, that country is doing the right thing. When 90 of percent of the people in a country are uplifted, that country is uplifted.

In this book Mr. Mazaheri accurately and rightfully denigrates the work of John King Fairbank, one of Americas most influential scholars on China, but we must remember that Fairbank is far from alone. In 2015 the US governments leading China expert, Michael Pillsbury, published The One Hundred Year Marathon: Chinas Secret Strategy to Replace America as Global Superpower, which became a best-selling book in its field. What a historic irony! According to Pillsbury, China has been working on this secret strategy since 1949 - the year Americas elite dismissed the Chinese Communist government by saying that the Chinese would never be able to feed themselves, and that it would have to come back begging for Americas help. Nor should we forget another example of so-called scholarship on China - the blockbuster book Maos Great Famine, by Frank Dikotter. In the book he claimed that over forty million Chinese people starved to death during the Great Leap Forward and yet scandal ensued when it was found that such a lack of proof caused him to use a 1947 Life magazine photo to represent his claims of such starvation on the books very cover! Dikotter also claimed that he had documents which proved that Mao wanted to starve half of the Chinese people to death during the Great Leap Forward so that the remaining half would be able to have more - it was discovered that Dikotter had misread the document, and that the opposite was true. Far more benignly, what Mao meant was to kill half of certain investment projects so that the remaining half of the projects would be completed in time. That a scholar can get away with this kind of dishonesty and fabrication in the USwhose fault is that?

In English-language literature, it is hard to find anything positive about what the Chinese government did. It reaches a point where I have to tell my students sometimes, with a bit of sarcasm, that: It is China - how can we expect the Chinese government to do anything right?

Now, with Chinas rise, there is this nonsense about Chinas secret strategy to replace the US as the premier global superpower but there is no secret strategy on Chinas part. When you choose to deceive yourself, by encouraging bad scholarship on China, when you allow the dishonest scholars to get away with lies and fabrications, who do you blame? When the CIA, the best-financed intelligence service in the world, produces reports on China, which turn out to be false time after time, who do you blame?

The Chinese government and the Chinese people have no desire to challenge the United States of America. They send their children to study in the US and they buy houses in the US. They have been working very hard and have concentrated on solving their own problems. They did not meddle inside other countries. They did not fight any wars unless wars came to them. Yet FBI director Chris Wray recently claimed that China is the most significant threat to the United States. I want to ask him: Why? China became a threat simply because China has done a better job than the United States in the last 70 years. The many US officials who have made similar statements should stop blaming China for their own problems - they can only blame their own stupidity.

It is time that the public in the US and the West wake up to modern reality. I recommend Mr. Mazaheris book to readers in China and the rest of the world because it is a refreshingly new perspective, and one which we urgently need right now. At this critical moment of our world, we need critical views like Mr. Ramin Mazaheris.