[Marxism] China, Tibet and U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution

[Eli Stephens]

Many U.S. progressives and liberals are supporting the Dalai Lama and the 
Tibetan opposition to the People’s Republic of China. So are George W. Bush, 
Rush Limbaugh, the CIA and every pro-imperialist government and media outlet. 
The vast majority of the peoples of China, including many in Tibet, oppose the 
U.S.-supported separatist movement.

How could progressive people be on the same side as Bush, the CIA and the 
ultra-right? How do we explain the paradox of progressive people supporting a 
movement that is financed and supported by the proponents of the U.S. Empire, as 
well as by all of the other old European colonial powers that had divided, 
humiliated and looted China for a full century prior to the 1949 revolution?

Complete: http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8845


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