Hey Ken Burch when 500 thousand protesters storm Washington congress senate and White House carrying the Chinese flag and hammer and cicle, destroying as much as they can and demanding communism then we’ll talk.
The Peoples Liberation Army has an obligation to protect socialism against cia plants.
Never knew you were such a defender of the imperialist corporate media’s lies.
the 1989 protesters were not fighting to turn China capitalist-they were making a peaceful stand for socialism without repression, paranoia, and endless screaming campaigns against "deviationists". They weren't carrying the US flag. They WERE singing the Internationale. And when Beijing crushed its democracy movement in 1989, Bush didn't care. He said nothing because they weren't on his side.
What happened in 1989 was a legitmate, libertarian socialist revolt from below. Nothing but tragedy came of that revolt being crushed.
BTW, in case you've not noticed, China went capitalist anyway. The democracy movement never wanted China's cities to be filled with western banks and luxury hotels. They didn't march and die for KFC and McDonald's. It's not a victory for socialism that billionaires are Party memberse. It was no victory for socialism that what exists now is a capitalist dictatorship.
Socialism never needs dictatorship to survive, and when dictatorial methods are used, the socialist aspects of the state always end up vanishing, because socialism, in the end, has to be linked to human liberation in all forms.
And the Hong Kong protesters had no alternative but to occupy the airport. They also aren't fighting to overthrow the Party on the Mainland-they are simply fighting an unjust law which would allow Beijing to extradite political dissidents for questioning and trial. There is no reason to have such a law, because there is no reason for Beijing to try to stop Hong Kong from moving to full democracy and no reason to punish anyone for working for it.
What happened in 1989 was not a CIA plot. What's happening at the airport is not a CIA plot.
And nothing the PLA did in 1989 or WOULD be doing if it crushed the airport protests now could possibly be called "defending socialism"-any more than Brezhnev was defending socialism by crushing the Prague Spring, or Krushchev when he crushed the fight for a humane, democratic form of socialism in Hungary, or Stalin was defending it by crushing the socialist rising against Stalin's pointless insistence that the DDR mirror Stalin's model without question or deviation, or that Stalin was ever defending socialism through the purge trials, or the Gulag and the Kolyma-or Lenin was defending it by crushing the Krondstadt rising when all that was about was a defense of free speech and the original idea of the soviets as real decision-making bodies.
None of that was ever about defending socialism.
None of that was ever necessary to defend socialism.
And there is no reason for any reason for any state which claims to be "socialist"-let alone any other state-to ever do any of those things again.
At some point in the far future, Beijing will have to apologize to the people for what it did in 1989. Why not just call on them NOT to act in the same way in Hong Kong this time? Why not just call on them to leave Hong Kong's internal affairs alone and let the place be a full-fledged democracy if that's what the people of that country want?
China doesn't need to be able to intimidate the people of Hong Kong to be secure, for God's sakes. And it would certainly have no justification to storm the place and kill them by the thousands.
It's time for Beijing to just back the hell off here.
Thats a long winded load of US corporate bullshit! I guess you really believe your horse shit hey?
Protestors I Tian An Men square killed unarmed military personnel when they fire bombed them in buses and burned to death! Those were criminals not peaceful protesters.
Keep twisting your definition of capitalism to include those you feel are a threat to your own version of materialism.