Robert J. Schwendinger: "Migration, "Free" Trade and China in History"

Robert J. Schwendinger writes that "Migration, "Free" Trade and China in History".

The seeds of failure for a prosperous China Trade were being planted during the years in which western nations treated China as a semi-colony, taking as much as they could get and giving little or nothing in return. The failure was also precipitated by the nations in which Chinese nationals were exploited for their labor, but denied universal rights and protections.

The story of Commissioner Lin Tse Hsu and his destruction of the great quantity of opium in 1839 is as important to Chinese history as the Boston Tea Party is to the United States; and although Lin’s actions precipitated defeat by the Western powers, the national humiliation China and Chinese suffered for almost a century is partly responsible for the two revolutions in modern times. With an emphasis on its own needs, China will assuredly measure each petitioner for respect. That nation’s history also suggests the need to be especially aware of challenges to its sovereignty.

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So far, the successful Communist revolutions have all been based on national uprisings against colonialism:

• Russian revolution against French Imperialism
• Chinese revolution against European, American and Japanese Imperialism
• Vietnamese revolution against French and American Imperialism
• Laotian revolution against French Imperialism
• Cuban revolution against American Imperialism
• Venezuelan revolution against American Imperialism

For the nest series of Revolutions, these will have to be in Imperialist countries like Australia. Here nationalism is the natural enemy of social revolution.

This is why it is important to build anti-racism movements around land rights and refugee rights. We have to emphasis the international character of the working class.