Mao Zedong once posed the question “Why can an egg but not a stone be transformed into a chicken?”
In his essay On Contradiction, Mao provided the answer. In educating Communist party members he wrote, “in order to understand the development of a thing we should study it internally and in its relations with other things.”
For Mao as a Marxist the causes of any development were internal and all of history could be explained through the mechanics of class struggle. He wrote, “The fundamental cause of the development of a thing is not external but internal.”
Mao was basically right. No amount of external heat applied to a stone will hatch a chicken.
Mao also knew the dictatorship of the proletariat his Communist party imposed on China was a massive tyranny. Mao’s Communist party was responsible for killing more than 70 million Chinese, a number that dwarfs the imagination of most people as to what modern tyranny can mean.
The chicken of China’s ethnic unrest — the recent instance of Uighur unrest in Xinjiang — comes as a result of endless internal oppression, Han Chinese chauvinism and denial of basic human rights to minorities.
China is not alone as a tyranny. For the past several weeks the world has witnessed the thuggish clerical regime in Tehran brutalizing Iranians for protesting the fraudulent manipulation of the election results.
Tyrants of all stripes shamelessly blame external forces for internal contradictions of their societies.
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“The deafening silence of left wing ideologues in the West, always vigilant to denounce the United States”
Salim is a very courageous Prof of Poli Sci at Western. He’s one of the few in academia who aren’t part of the self-loathing problem expressed as:
all of the world’s problems stemming from the West.
Also his criticism of the corrupt depots running the UN is very unique in academia.
He should be getting an Order of Canada for his brave stance on campus which undoubtedly makes his cause a very lonely battle against the groupthink.
Maybe the reason the western leftists are silent is because the Human Rights game is simply a backdoor means of realizing tyranny? Jennifer Lynch and Barbara Hall come immediately to mind. They don’t believe in individual rights. They, and their comrade Iggy, believe collective rights trump individual rights. They are the modern-day, western tyrants.