중국 제국주의의 위구르 인민 탄압을 지지 서명한 37개국

37 Unterschriften sagen mehr als tausend Worte

 

On a letter of 37 states, including Muslim countries, sent to the United Nations defending China's treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang

 

By Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 16 July 2019, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

The governments of 37 states have written a remarkable letter to the United Nations. In this letter, the signatories express their support for the policies of China’s Stalinist-capitalist regime against its Muslim Uyghur minority.

 

“Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers. (...) We commend China's remarkable achievements in the field of human rights. (...) We take note that terrorism, separatism and religious extremism has caused enormous damage to people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. (...) Now safety and security has returned to Xinjiang." [1]

 

Such words could have been taken from Orwell’s dystopian novel ”1984”! The Muslim Uyghurs are a nationality of an estimated eleven to fifteen million people living in East Turkestan (or Xinjiang as the province is officially called by the Chinese authorities). They have endured long-standing, national oppression by the regime in Beijing. The Chinese ruling class has systematically suppressed the Uyghur population and their culture. It has also implemented a policy of colonizing the province by settling Han Chinese people in order to change the ethnic balance. Many Muslim Uyghurs have been thrown into concentration camps. Last year, the United Nations published a report with shocking details. Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited “estimates that upwards of a million people were being held in so-called counter-extremism centres and another two million had been forced into so-called “re-education camps” for political and cultural indoctrination.” [2]

 

It is with the utmost cynicism that the signatory states call such oppression “a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures” and even congratulate the regime for its “remarkable achievements in the field of human rights”!

 

There is an English language adage that makes the point that "A picture is worth a thousand words". In the case of the outrageous letter of sycophantic praise for the Stalinist-capitalist regime in Beijing you could amend that by saying that “37 signatures are worth a thousand words.”

 

It is highly revealing to look at the list of the signatory states. A number of them are traditional and close allies of Chinese imperialism such as Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Myanmar, and Belarus. These, mostly, authoritarian regimes are either Stalinist-capitalist governments or states that camouflage their capitalist policies with “socialist” phrases (North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela). [3] Or they have, themselves, a notorious record of genocidal oppression of their own Muslim minorities (Russia and Myanmar). [4]

 

Additional signatories of the letter are the reactionary governments of a number of African countries – from Nigeria to Zimbabwe – that have close economic and political relations with the imperialist “Middle Kingdom”. [5] This reflects, we must note parenthetically, the rise of China as the imperialist Great Power that has now emerged as a direct challenger to the traditional hegemon – the U.S. [6]

 

 

 

The “Muslim” traitors

 

 

 

However, what is particularly revealing is the fact that the list of states supporting this letter is complemented by a number of purportedly “Muslim” states. Among these are Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Bahrain. In the case of Syria, this development is hardly surprising given the fact that the criminal Assad regime has slaughtered more than 600,000 people since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution in March 2011.

 

However, it is extremely revealing that the official guardians of the Kaaba and the self-proclaimed defenders of the global Muslim ummah have added their names to the list of signers. So, these supposed “defenders of the faith” now congratulate China for the suppression of its Muslim minority and the staunchly conservative and anti-communist states embrace the supposedly “communist” and “atheist” regime?

 

How can this stunning contradiction be explained? Very simply: money talks! In reality, the Chinese regime has nothing to do with authentic communism that, in contrast to Stalinism, is totally opposed to the persecution of religious minorities. And the so-called “Muslim” governments violate every single of the five pillars of Islam on a daily basis. Is it not illustrative that the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, is the “best buddy” of the crook, tax evader, and porn-star-fornicator, Donald Trump?! Their open or concealed support for the Assad tyranny, the barbarous war against the Yemeni people or the cold-blood murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are straightforward proof of their completely villainous character!

 

“Ideological” pronouncements aside, these capitalist “Muslim” governments and Chinese imperialism jointly enjoy a plethora of commercial and geostrategic interests. And this is what counts in a world dominated by capitalism and the rule of profit! In order to improve their business opportunities, the “Muslim” capitalists have no problem in selling out their Uyghur brothers and sisters.

 

 

 

Erdoğan joins the list of whitewashers

 

 

 

While Turkey, home of a sizeable Uyghur Diaspora, did not sign the letter of shame, one must point out that Erdoğan has also joined the list of whitewashers of China’s policy of oppression against the Uyghur people. In 2009, the Turkish President condemned China’s crackdown on the Uygurs as a “kind of genocide”. However, by 2019 he had changed his tune. Today, Turkey is stuck in a deep financial crisis and wants to join the main global project of Chinese imperialism – the so-called Belt and Road Initiative. [7]

 

As a result, Erdoğan is now praising the Beijing regime’s policy in East Turkestan. "Turkey stays committed to the one-China policy, Erdogan said, "stressing that residents of various ethnicities living happily in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region thanks to China's prosperity is a hard fact, and Turkey will not allow anyone to drive a wedge in its relations with China," Xinhua reported.” [8]

 

So, we see, the Uyghurs have been unceremoniously dumped by Erdoğan for better prospects on the auction block of global capitalism. Shame is evidently a word missing from the man’s vocabulary.

 

There is an additional ancient and famous English proverb asserting that “blood is thicker than water.” Inverting this, we are compelled to update the shifting sentiment by observing that for these types “religious beliefs (and principles) are great but money… is even better”. Better yet, the pursuit of money is their underlying, baseline principle and nothing else even comes close.

 

 

 

Lessons

 

 

 

As sad as this letter of shame is, it also contains crucial lessons. Most importantly, it demonstrates once more what the RCIT has emphasized again and again: one must not judge political forces by their self-proclaimed ideologies and religious beliefs. Stalin claimed to be a communist but oppressed the people, killed hundreds of thousands of oppositional communists, and deported ethnic minorities like the Crimean Tatars and Chechens. China is headed by a “Communist” party and, at the same time, is home to the largest number of capitalist corporations and billionaires in the world. Shamefully, this regime continues to be hailed by numerous Stalinists and Castro-Chavistas globally. [9]

 

Likewise, Saudi Arabia is allegedly based on the conservative moral doctrines of Wahhabism and, at the same time, is headed by an utterly decadent and corrupt monarchy that counts among its friends Trump, Putin, and Israel.

 

No, one must not judge any regime or political force by their words but by their deeds, by their concrete positions in the liberation struggles of workers and oppressed people. And here, we see that these “socialist” and “Muslim” regimes are uniformly on the side of the exploiters and oppressors!

 

We conclude by repeating that the RCIT has always denounced the Stalinist-capitalist regime in China and its national oppression of the Muslim Uyghur people. [10] Contrary to the cynical denunciations of the Stalinists, the Muslim Uyghurs are waging a just struggle against Han Chinese chauvinism originating in Beijing. We stand in unconditional solidarity with the Muslim Uyghurs and their struggle for national self-determination. We support the struggle of all oppressed nations in China for freedom including the right to form their own nation state. [11]

 

We also repeat our warning against any illusions in Western imperialism. Washington and Brussels want to exploit China’s domestic problems – similar to attempts of Moscow and Beijing to interfere in the domestic issues of rival Western countries. But the Western Great Powers, equally, have blood on their collective hands – just remember their brutal occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq or Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people!

 

The workers and oppressed around the world must fight for liberation without relying on any of these Great Powers! All Great Powers are complicit as they strive to oppress and exploit the working people – both domestically as well as abroad.

 

The only way forward is to organize all liberation fighters in a revolutionary party based on a program of independent and international class struggle. Such a struggle must aim for the revolutionary overthrow of all ruling classes and for the creation of a world without classes, without oppression, and without exploitation. We call such a world “socialism”. Join us in the struggle for that just and honest future!

 

 

 

 

 

무슬림 국가들 포함 37개국이 중국 제국주의를 찬양하는 서한을 유엔에 제출하다

 

미하엘 프뢰브스팅, 혁명적 공산주의인터내셔널 (RCIT) 국제서기, 2019년 7월 16일, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

37개국 정부가 공동 서명한 서한을 유엔(UN)에 제출했다. 이 서한에서 서명국들은 중국 스탈린주의 자본가 정권이 중국 내 무슬림 위구르족 소수자에 대해 취하고 있는 정책에 대한 지지를 표하고 있다.

 

“테러리즘과 극단주의의 심각한 도전에 직면한 중국은 신장(新疆) 지역에 직업교육훈련소 설치 등 일련의 테러 방지 및 순화 조치에 나섰다. (...) 우리는 인권 분야에서 중국의 놀라운 성취를 높이 평가한다.(...) 우리는 테러리즘과 분리주의, 종교적 극단주의가 신장 내 모든 민족 집단의 사람들에게 막대한 피해를 입혔다는 점에 주목한다. (...) 이제 안전과 안정이 다시 신장으로 돌아왔다.”[1]

 

조지 오웰의 디스토피아 소설 <<1984년>>에서나 찾아볼 수 있을 말이다! 무슬림 위구르족은 동투르키스탄 (중국 당국의 공식 명칭으로는 신장성)에 살고 있는 약 1100만에서 1500만 명에 이르는 소 민족이다. 위구르 인민은 중국 정권의 민족 억압을 오랜 동안 견뎌왔다. 중국 지배계급은 위구르족 주민과 그들의 문화를 체계적으로 탄압해 왔다. 중국 지배계급은 또한 이 지역의 민족 균형을 바꿔내기 위해 한족(漢族) 정착을 통한 식민화 정책을 시행했다. 많은 무슬림 위구르 인민이 강제수용소에 수감되었다. 지난 해 UN은 충격적인 사실들을 담은 보고서를 발표했다. 유엔 인종차별철폐위원회 위원인 게이 맥도걸은 “100만 명 이상의 사람들이 소위 ‘극단주의 방지 센터’에 수용되어 있었고 또 다른 200만 명이 정치적·문화적 세뇌를 위해 소위 ‘재교육 캠프’에 강제 수감된 것으로 추정된다”고 말했다.[2]

 

서명국들이 이 같은 탄압을 "일련의 테러 방지 및 순화 조치"라고 부르고, 심지어는 중국 정권이 “인권 분야에서 놀라운 성취”를 이뤘다고 축하하고 있는 것을 보면, 그 이상의 위선과 기만도 쉽지 않을 것 같다!

 

“천 마디 말보다 한 번 보는 게 더 낫다”는 영어 속담이 있다. 중국의 스탈린주의 자본가 정권에 대한 이 아첨어린 찬사 편지의 경우, “천 마디 말보다 서른일곱 개의 서명을 보는 게 더 낫다”고 변주해서 말할 수 있겠다. 서명국 명단을 보면 이 서한의 기만적인 본질이 잘 드러난다. 많은 서명국은 중국 제국주의의 전통적인 동맹들이다. 러시아, 북한, 베네수엘라, 쿠바, 미얀마, 벨라루스 등. 이들 대부분 권위주의 정권들은 스탈린주의 자본가 정권들이거나, 자신의 자본주의적 본질을 “사회주의”적 언사로 위장한 정권들 (북한, 쿠바, 베네수엘라)이다.[3] 또는 자국의 무슬림 소수자 대량학살이라는 악명 높은 기록을 가진 정권들이다 (러시아와 미얀마). [4]

 

또 다른 서명국은 제국주의 중국과의 긴밀한 경제적·정치적 관계를 유지하고 있는 나이지리아, 짐바브웨 같은 아프리카의 반동 정부들이다.[5] 이것은 모두 신흥 제국주의 강대국으로서의 중국의 굴기, 즉 전통적 패권국 (미국)에 대한 직접적 도전자로 지금 부상한 중국의 굴기를 반영하는 것이다.[6]

 

"무슬림" 배신자

 

그러나 그 위선적, 기만적 본질을 특히 잘 드러내고 있는 것은, 그 서한 지지 서명국 명단이 많은 “무슬림” 국가들로 보완되고 있다는 사실이다. 이들 가운데는 사우디아라비아, 시리아, 파키스탄, 오만, 쿠웨이트, 카타르, 아랍에미리트, 알제리, 바레인 등이 있다. 시리아의 경우야 아사드 범죄 정권이 2011년 3월 시리아 혁명의 시작 이래 60만 명 이상을 학살한 사실에 비춰 볼 때 놀랄 일도 아니다.

 

그러나 메카 카바 신전(神殿)의 공식 수호자들과 전 세계 무슬림 공동체 움마의 자칭 옹호자들인 사우디와 쿠웨이트, 아랍에미리트 등이 서명자 명단에 그 이름들을 보탠 것은 놀랄 만 하다. 이들 “신앙의 옹호자들”이 이제 중국 정권에게 중국 내 무슬림 소수자를 탄압한 것에 축하를 보냈다. 독실한 보수적 반공 국가들이 “공산주의” “무신론” 정권과 포옹한 것이다.

 

이 놀라운 모순을 어떻게 설명할 수 있을까? 아주 간단하다. 돈이 말해준다! 중국 정권은 진정한 공산주의와는 아무 관련이 없다. 스탈린주의와는 대조적으로 종교 소수자 박해에 전면 반대하는 진정한 공산주의와 중국 “공산”당 정권은 아무 관련 없을 뿐만 아니라, 서로 적대적이다. 또 사우디 등 이른바 “무슬림” 정부들은 이슬람의 다섯 기둥 어느 하나도 빠뜨리지 않고 날마다 위반한다. 사우디 왕세자 무함마드 빈 살만이, 무슬림에서 용납되지 않는 사기꾼이자 탈세자에 포르노스타 간음자인 도널드 트럼프와 “최고의 친구”라는 것이 사태의 본질을 생생하게 보여주지 않는가?! 아사드 폭정에 대한 이들의 공공연한, 또는 은밀한 지지나, 예멘 인민을 적으로 한 야만적인 전쟁이나, 사우디 기자 자말 카슈끄지의 냉혹한 살해는 이들의 더할 나위 없는 사악함의 직접적인 증거다.

 

"이데올로기적" 발언들은 그만 접고, 이들 자본주의 "무슬림" 정부와 중국 제국주의는 무수한 상업적, 전략지정학적 이익을 공동으로 누리고 있다. 그리고 자본주의와 이윤의 룰이 지배하는 세계에서 이것은 중요하다! “무슬림” 자본가들은 그들의 비즈니스 기회를 증진하기 위해서라면, 그들의 위구르 형제자매들을 팔아넘기는 데 아무 문제도 없다.

 

에르도안도 축소은폐자들 명단에 합류하다

 

상당 규모의 위구르족 디아스포라 [집단이주]의 본거지인 터키는 수치스런 서한에 서명하지 않았지만, 터키 대통령 에르도안도 위구르 인민에 대한 중국의 억압 정책을 축소은폐 해주는 서명 명단에 합류한 사실을 지적하지 않으면 안 된다. 2009년에 이 터키 대통령은 중국의 위구르족 탄압을 “인종학살의 일종”이라고 비난했다. 하지만 2019년에는 “인권 분야에서 중국의 놀라운 성취”로 입장을 바꾼 것이다. 오늘, 터키는 깊은 금융 위기에 처해 있으며 중국 제국주의의 주요 글로벌 프로젝트인 이른바 '일대일로 이니셔티브'에 참여하기를 원하고 있다.[7]

 

그 때문에 에르도안은 지금 동투르키스탄에서 중국 정권의 정책을 칭찬하고 있는 것이다. “에르도안은, 터키는 여전히 하나의 중국 정책을 고수하고 있다며, 다음과 같이 강조했다. ‘중국의 번영 덕분에 신장 위구르 자치구에서 다양한 민족 출신 거주자들이 행복하게 살고 있는 것은 엄연한 사실이며, 터키도 중국과의 관계에서 어느 누구든 사이를 틀어지게 하는 것을 허용하지 않을 것이다.’ [신화통신]” [8] 에르도안에 의해 위구르 인민은 더 나은 조건으로 팔리기 위해 글로벌 자본주의의 경매대 위에 인정사정 볼 것 없이 버려져왔다.

 

교훈

 

이 수치스런 편지가 통탄스런 만큼 중대한 교훈도 담고 있다. 가장 중요하게는, RCIT가 거듭 강조해 왔듯이, 정치 세력을 그들 스스로 자임하는 이념과 종교적 신념으로 판단해서는 안 된다는 것이다. 스탈린은 공산주의자를 자처했지만, 인민을 탄압했고 수십만 명의 반대파 공산주의자들을 죽였으며 크림 타타르인과 체첸인, 고려인 같은 민족 소수자를 강제 추방했다. 중국은 “공산”당이 영도하지만, 동시에 세계에서 가장 많은 자본주의 독점체와 억만장자들의 본거지다. 철면피하게도 전 세계의 스탈린주의자들과 카스트로-차베스주의자들은 계속해서 중국의 이 독점자본가·억만장자 정권에 바치는 용비어천가를 불러대고 있다.[9]

 

마찬가지로 사우디아라비아도 와하비즘의 보수적 윤리 교의에 기초해 있다고 자처하지만, 동시에 트럼프, 푸틴, 이스라엘을 절친한 벗으로 두고 있는 철저히 퇴페적이고 부패한 왕정이 영도한다.

 

어느 정권 또는 정치세력을 그들의 말이 아니라 그들의 행동으로, 노동자와 피억압 인민의 해방투쟁에서 그들이 취하는 구체적 태도와 입장으로 판단해야 한다. 그리고 여기서 우리는 이들 “사회주의” 정권과 “무슬림” 정권이 하나 같이 착취자·억압자의 편에 서 있다는 것을 본다!

 

RCIT는 언제나 중국의 스탈린주의-자본가 정권과 이 정권의 무슬림 위구르 인민에 대한 민족적 억압을 규탄해왔다.[10] 스탈린주의자들의 위선적이고 기만적인 비난과는 달리, 무슬림 위구르 인민은 중국 정권의 한족 배외주의에 맞서 정의로운 투쟁을 수행하고 있다. 우리는 무슬림 위구르 인민과 그들의 민족자결을 위한 투쟁에 무조건적 연대를 견지한다. 우리는 중국 내 모든 피억압 민족들의 자유와 해방 ㅡ 그들 자신의 민족국가를 형성할 권리를 포함하여 ㅡ을 위한 투쟁을 지지한다.[11]

 

우리는 또한 서방 제국주의에 대한 어떠한 환상에 대해서도 거듭 우리의 경고를 보낸다. 미국과 유럽연합은 중국의 국내 문제들을 이용하고자 한다. 중국과 러시아가 라이벌 서방 국가들의 국내 문제에 개입하려고 시도하는 것과 마찬가지로 말이다. 서방 강대국들 또한 단체로 자신들의 손에 피를 묻혀왔다. 그들의 야수적인 아프간 · 이라크 점령이나, 이스라엘의 지금도 진행 중인 팔레스타인 인민 탄압을 상기하라!

 

전 세계의 노동자 · 피억압자는 이들 강대국 그 어디에도 의존하지 않고서 해방을 위해 투쟁해야 한다! 모든 강대국은 국내에서나 국외에서나 노동인민을 억압·착취하는 것이라면 언제나 공모한다.

 

전진하는 단 하나의 길은 모든 해방투사들을 독립적이고 국제적인 계급투쟁 강령에 기초한 혁명당으로 조직하는 것이다. 그러한 투쟁은 모든 지배계급들의 혁명적 타도를, 억압·착취 없는, 계급 없는 세계의 창조를 목표로 해야 한다. 그런 세계가 바로 우리가 말하는 “사회주의”다. 사회주의 미래를 위한 투쟁에 우리와 함께 하자!

 

 

 

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[1] 서한의 발췌본이 다음 글에 인용되어 있다. Tom Miles: Saudi Arabia and Russia among 37 states backing China's Xinjiang policy, July 12, 2019 / https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-rights/saudi-arabia-and-russia-among-37-states-backing-chinas-xinjiang-policy-idUSKCN1U721X; Muslim countries defend Chinese 'concentration camps', 12 July, 2019 https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/12/muslim-countries-defend-chinese-concentration-camps; Patrick Goodenough: China Thanks 37 Countries, Including Islamic States, for Praising Its Uighur Policies, July 15, 2019, https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/china-thanks-37-countries-including-islamic-states-praising-its

 

[2] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reviews the report of China, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 13 August 2018, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23452&LangID=E; 또 다음을 보라. Al Jazeera: One million Muslim Uighurs held in secret China camps: UN panel, 2018-08-10 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/million-muslim-uighurs-held-secret-china-camps-panel-180810185817270.html

 

 

 

[3] 북한 정권에 대한 RCIT의 평가로는 다음을 보라. Michael Pröbsting: Has Capitalist Restoration in North Korea Crossed the Rubicon or Not? 15 July 2018, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/has-capitalist-restoration-in-north-korea-crossed-the-rubicon-or-not/ (또 각주에 있는 RCIT의 문헌도 보라); 쿠바에 대해서는 다음을 보라. Michael Pröbsting: Cuba’s Revolution Sold Out? The Road from Revolution to the Restoration of Capitalism, RCIT Books, Vienna 2013, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/cuba-s-revolution-sold-out/; 베네수엘라에 대해서는 다음을 보라. RCIT: Attempted Coup D'etat in Venezuela: Defeat Guaidó and Trump! https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/latin-america/attempted-coup-d-etat-in-venezuela-defeat-guaido-trump/ (또 부록에 있는 RCIT의 문서도 보라). Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 5 May 2019, www.thecommunists.net

 

[4] 러시아의 체첸인 탄압 및 미얀마에서의 로힝야 무슬림 교도들에 대한 탄압에 대해서는 다음을 보라. Solidarity with the Liberation Struggle of the Chechen People! February 2018, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/solidarity-with-the-liberation-struggle-of-the-chechen-people/; Myanmar: Solidarity with the Uprising of the Rohingya Muslims! 27.08.2017, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/solidarity-with-rohingya-muslims/

 

[5] 아프리카에서 중국의 역할에 대해서는 다음을 보라. RCIT: Theses on Capitalism and Class Struggle in Black Africa, 13 April 2017, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/africa-theses/ (Part II).

 

[6] 제국주의 강대국으로서의 중국에 대한 RCIT의 분석으로는, 다음의 우리 웹사이트에 있는 특별 하위섹션에 있는 문헌을 보라: https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/china-russia-as-imperialist-powers/. 특히 다음을 보라. Michael Pröbsting: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry. The Factors behind the Accelerating Rivalry between the U.S., China, Russia, EU and Japan. A Critique of the Left’s Analysis and an Outline of the Marxist Perspective, RCIT Books, January 2019, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/; Michael Pröbsting: The China-India Conflict: Its Causes and Consequences. What are the background and the nature of the tensions between China and India in the Sikkim border region? What should be the tactical conclusions for Socialists and Activists of the Liberation Movements? 18 August 2017, Revolutionary Communism No. 71, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/china-india-rivalry/; Michael Pröbsting: The China Question and the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, December 2014, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/reply-to-csr-pco-on-china/; Michael Pröbsting: China‘s transformation into an imperialist power. A study of the economic, political and military aspects of China as a Great Power, in: Revolutionary Communism No. 4, http://www.thecommunists.net/publications/revcom-number-4.

 

[7] 이에 대해서는 다음을 보라. Cary Huang: Erdogan abandoned the Uygurs to court China. Will he do same to the US? South China Morning Post, 14 July 2019 https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3018420/erdogan-abandoned-uygurs-court-china-will-he-do-same-us; Sun Haoran: Xi meets with Erdogan on BRI, ties, Global Times 2019/7/2 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1156561.shtml; Killian Cogan: Turkey abandons Uighurs in favor of Chinese investment, January 9, 2019 https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/01/turkey-renounces-historic-defense-of-uighurs.html#ixzz5cATfhaPk; Li Weijian: Economic interests define Erdogan’s China visit, Global Times 2019/7/1 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1156382.shtml

 

[8] 다음에서 인용. Turkey's President Erdogan claims Muslim Uighur minority 'live happily' in China, despite abuse reports, 3 July, 2019 https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/3/erdogan-says-muslim-uighur-minority-live-happily-in-xinjiang

 

[9] 이에 대해서는 다음을 보라. chapter “VIII. Revisionist Whitewashing: Stalinist and Bolivarian Admirers of Beijing’s “Socialism”” in “Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry”.

 

[10] Michael Pröbsting: China: Defend the Muslim Uyghurs against Oppression! 18.10.2018, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/china-defend-the-muslim-uyghurs-against-oppression/; TV Discussion about the Situation of the Muslim Uyghurs in China, Report (with Pictures and Video) by the Austrian Section of the RCIT, 25 March 2019, https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/tv-discussion-about-the-situation-of-the-muslim-uyghurs-in-china/

 

[11] 이에 대해서는 RCIT 강령에서 민족 억압에 관한 장들을 보라: Manifesto for Revolutionary Liberation (Chapter IV), October 2016, https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit-program-2016/; The Revolutionary Communist Manifesto (Chapter V), 2012, https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit-manifesto/; 또 다음을 보라. Michael Pröbsting: The Struggle for Democracy in the Imperialist Countries Today, August 2015, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/democracy-vs-imperialism/

 

 

 

 

Zu einem Schreiben von 37 Staaten, darunter muslimische Länder, an die Vereinten Nationen, in dem sie die Behandlung der Uiguren in Xinjiang durch China verteidigen.

 

Von Michael Pröbsting, Internationaler Sekretär der Revolutionär-Kommunistischen Internationalen Tendenz (RCIT), 16. Juli 2019,www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

Die Regierungen von 37 Staaten haben einen bemerkenswerten Brief an die Vereinten Nationen geschrieben. In diesem Schreiben bekunden die Unterzeichner ihre Unterstützung für die Politik des stalinistisch-kapitalistischen Regimes Chinas gegenüber seiner muslimisch-uigurischen Minderheit.

 

"Angesichts der großen Herausforderung von Terrorismus und Extremismus hat China in Xinjiang eine Reihe von Maßnahmen zur Terrorismusbekämpfung und Deradikalisierung ergriffen, darunter die Einrichtung von Berufsbildungszentren. (....) Wir würdigen die bemerkenswerten Leistungen Chinas auf dem Gebiet der Menschenrechte. (....) Wir stellen fest, dass Terrorismus, Separatismus und religiöser Extremismus den Menschen aller ethnischen Gruppen in Xinjiang enormen Schaden zugefügt haben. (....) Jetzt ist die Sicherheit nach Xinjiang zurückgekehrt. " [1]

 

Solche Worte könnten aus Orwells dystopischem Roman "1984" stammen! Die muslimischen Uiguren sind eine Nationalität von schätzungsweise elf bis fünfzehn Millionen Menschen, die in Ostturkestan (oder Xinjiang, wie die Provinz offiziell von den chinesischen Behörden genannt wird) leben. Sie haben eine langjährige, nationale Unterdrückung durch das Regime in Peking erlitten. Die chinesische herrschende Klasse hat die uigurische Bevölkerung und ihre Kultur systematisch unterdrückt. Sie hat auch eine Politik der Kolonisierung der Provinz umgesetzt, indem sie in der Region Han-Chinesen angesiedelt hat, um das ethnische Kräfteverhältnis zu verändern. Viele muslimische Uiguren wurden in Konzentrationslager geworfen. Im vergangenen Jahr haben die Vereinten Nationen einen Bericht mit schockierenden Details veröffentlicht. Gay McDougall, Mitglied des UN-Ausschusses zur Beseitigung von Rassendiskriminierung, zitierte "Schätzungen, dass mehr als eine Million Menschen in so genannten Zentren für Anti-Extremismus festgehalten werden und weitere zwei Millionen in so genannte "Umerziehungslager" zur politischen und kulturellen Indoktrination gezwungen wurden. "” [2]

 

Mit äußerstem Zynismus nennen die Unterzeichnerstaaten eine solche Unterdrückung "eine Reihe von Maßnahmen zur Terrorismusbekämpfung und Deradikalisierung" und gratulieren dem Regime sogar zu seinen "bemerkenswerten Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Menschenrechte"!

 

Es gibt ein Sprichwort in der deutschen Sprache, das lautet: "Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte". Im Falle dieses skandalösen Briefes des kriecherischen Lobes für das stalinistisch-kapitalistische Regime in Peking können wir diese Sprichwort folgendermaßen umformulieren: "37 Unterschriften sagen mehr als tausend Worte.”

 

Es ist sehr aufschlussreich, sich die Liste der Unterzeichnerstaaten genauer anzusehen. Einige von ihnen sind traditionelle und enge Verbündete des chinesischen Imperialismus wie Russland, Nordkorea, Venezuela, Kuba, Myanmar und Belarus. Diese meist autoritären Regime sind entweder stalinistisch-kapitalistische Regierungen oder Staaten, die ihre kapitalistische Politik mit "sozialistischen" Phrasen tarnen (Nordkorea, Kuba und Venezuela). [3] Oder sie haben selbst eine berüchtigte Geschichte einer völkermörderischen Unterdrückung ihrer eigenen muslimischen Minderheiten (Russland und Myanmar). [4]

 

Weitere Unterzeichner des Schreibens sind die reaktionären Regierungen einer Reihe von afrikanischen Ländern - von Nigeria bis Simbabwe -, die enge wirtschaftliche und politische Beziehungen zum imperialistischen "Reich der Mitte" unterhalten. [5] Dies spiegelt, nebenbei bemerkt, den Aufstieg Chinas zur imperialistischen Großmacht wider, das nun zum direkten Herausforderer des traditionellen Hegemon - den USA – wurde. [6]

 

 

 

Die "muslimischen" Verräter

 

 

 

Besonders aufschlussreich ist jedoch die Tatsache, dass die Liste der Staaten, die diesen Brief unterstützen, durch eine Reihe von angeblich "muslimischen" Staaten ergänzt wird. Dazu gehören Saudi-Arabien, Syrien, Pakistan, Oman, Kuwait, Katar, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Algerien und Bahrain. Im Falle Syriens ist diese Entwicklung kaum verwunderlich, da das kriminelle Assad-Regime seit Beginn der syrischen Revolution im März 2011 mehr als 600.000 Menschen getötet hat.

 

Es ist jedoch äußerst aufschlussreich, dass die offiziellen Hüter der Kaaba und die selbsternannten Verteidiger der globalen muslimischen Umma ihre Namen auf die Liste der Unterzeichner gesetzt haben. Diese vermeintlichen "Verteidiger des Glaubens" gratulieren China nun zur Unterdrückung seiner muslimischen Minderheit und die eingefleischten konservativen und antikommunistischen Staaten umarmen das vermeintlich "kommunistische" und "atheistische" Regime?

 

Wie lässt sich dieser atemberaubende Widerspruch erklären? Ganz einfach: Geld regiert die Welt! In Wirklichkeit hat das chinesische Regime nichts mit dem authentischen Kommunismus zu tun, der im Gegensatz zum Stalinismus die Verfolgung religiöser Minderheiten vollkommen ablehnt. Und die sogenannten "muslimischen" Regierungen verletzen tagtäglich jede einzelne der fünf Säulen des Islam. Ist es nicht bezeichnend, dass der saudische Kronprinz, Mohammad bin Salman, der "beste Kumpel" des Gauners, Steuerhinterziehers und Pornostar-Hurenbocks Donald Trump ist?! Ihre offene oder verdeckte Unterstützung der Assad-Tyrannei, der barbarische Krieg gegen das jemenitische Volk oder der kaltblütige Mord an dem saudischen Journalisten Jamal Khashoggi sind ein eindeutiger Beweis für ihren völlig abscheulichen Charakter!

 

Abgesehen von den "ideologischen" Unterschieden haben diese kapitalistischen "muslimischen" Regierungen und der chinesische Imperialismus eine Fülle von gemeinsamen kommerziellen und geostrategischen Interessen. Und das ist es, was in einer Welt zählt, die vom Kapitalismus und der Herrschaft des Profits beherrscht wird! Um ihre Geschäftsmöglichkeiten zu verbessern, haben die "muslimischen" Kapitalisten kein Problem damit, ihre uigurischen Brüder und Schwestern zu verkaufen.

 

 

 

Erdoğan reiht sich in die Liste der Beschöniger ein

 

 

 

Während die Türkei, die Heimat einer großen uigurischen Diaspora, den schändlichen Brief nicht unterschrieben hat, muss man darauf hinweisen, dass Erdoğan auch der Liste der Beschöniger der chinesischen Unterdrückungspolitik gegen das uigurische Volk beigetreten ist. Im Jahr 2009 verurteilte noch der türkische Präsident das Vorgehen Chinas gegen die Uiguren als "eine Art Völkermord". Doch im Jahre 2019 hat er seine Meinung grundlegend geändert. Heute steckt die Türkei in einer tiefen Finanzkrise und will sich dem wichtigsten globalen Projekt des chinesischen Imperialismus - der sogenannten Belt and Road Initiative - anschließen. [7]

 

Infolgedessen lobt Erdoğan jetzt die Politik des Pekinger Regimes in Ostturkestan. "Die Türkei bleibt der Ein-China-Politik verpflichtet, sagte Erdogan, "und betont, dass es eine Tatsache ist, dass die Einwohner unterschiedlicher ethnischer Herkunft dank des Wohlstands Chinas glücklich in der Uigurischen Autonomen Region Xinjiang leben, Die Türkei wird es niemandem erlauben, in ihre Beziehungen zu China einen Keil zu treiben", berichtete Xinhua.” [8]

 

Wir sehen also, dass die Uiguren kurzerhand von Erdoğan entsorgt wurden im Austausch für bessere Aussichten beim Versteigerungspodest des globalen Kapitalismus. Scham ist offensichtlich ein Wort, das im Vokabular dieses Mannes fehlt.

 

Es gibt ein weiteres altes und berühmtes Sprichwort, das behauptet, dass "Blut dicker ist als Wasser". In Anlehnung an diese Redewendung können wir feststellen, dass für diese Leute "religiöse Überzeugungen (und Prinzipien) großartig sind, aber Geld... ist noch besser". Besser noch, die Gier nach Geld ist ihr zugrundeliegendes Grundprinzip, und nichts anderes ist auch nur annähernd so wichtig.

 

 

 

Lehren

 

 

 

So traurig dieser schändliche Brief auch sein mag, er enthält auch wichtige Lehren. Vor allem aber zeigt es einmal mehr, was das RCIT immer wieder betont hat: Man darf politische Kräfte nicht an ihren selbsternannten Ideologien und religiösen Überzeugungen messen. Stalin behauptete, ein Kommunist zu sein, unterdrückte aber das Volk, tötete Hunderttausende von oppositionellen Kommunisten und deportierte ethnische Minderheiten wie die Krimtataren und Tschetschenen. China wird von einer "kommunistischen" Partei angeführt und beherbergt gleichzeitig die größte Zahl kapitalistischer Unternehmen und Milliardäre der Welt. Schändlicherweise wird dieses Regime weiterhin von zahlreichen Stalinisten und Castro-Chavistas weltweit bejubelt. [9]

 

Und während sich Saudi-Arabien offiziell auf die konservativen Moralvorstellungen des Wahhabismus stützt, steht an seiner Spitze eine völlig dekadente und korrupte Monarchie, die zu ihren Freunden Trump, Putin und Israel zählt.

 

Nein, man darf ein Regime oder eine politische Kraft nicht nach ihren Worten beurteilen, sondern nach ihren Taten, nach ihrer konkreten Stellung in den Befreiungskämpfen der Arbeiter und Unterdrückten. Und hier sehen wir, dass diese "sozialistischen" und "muslimischen" Regime alle gemeinsam auf der Seite der Ausbeuter und Unterdrücker stehen!

 

Wir wiederholen abschließend, dass die RCIT das stalinistisch-kapitalistische Regime in China und seine nationale Unterdrückung des muslimisch-uigurischen Volkes stets angeprangert hat. [10] Im Gegensatz zu den zynischen Anschuldigungen der Stalinisten führen die muslimischen Uiguren einen gerechten Kampf gegen den von Peking ausgehenden Han-chinesischen Chauvinismus. Wir stehen in bedingungsloser Solidarität mit den muslimischen Uiguren und ihrem Kampf für die nationale Selbstbestimmung. Wir unterstützen den Kampf aller unterdrückten Nationen in China um Freiheit, einschließlich des Rechts, einen eigenen Nationalstaat zu gründen. [11]

 

Wir wiederholen auch unsere Warnung vor jeglichen Illusionen in den westlichen Imperialismus. Washington und Brüssel wollen Chinas innenpolitische Probleme ausnutzen - ähnlich wie die Versuche von Moskau und Peking, sich in die innenpolitischen Fragen rivalisierender westlicher Länder einzumischen. Aber auch die westlichen Großmächte haben alle zusammen Blut an ihren Händen - denken wir nur an ihre brutale Besatzung von Afghanistan und Irak oder an die anhaltende Unterdrückung des palästinensischen Volkes durch Israel!

 

Die Arbeiter und Unterdrückten auf der ganzen Welt müssen für die Befreiung kämpfen, ohne sich auf eine dieser Großmächte zu verlassen! Alle Großmächte sind mitschuldig, wenn es darum geht, die arbeitende Bevölkerung zu unterdrücken und auszubeuten - sowohl im In- als auch im Ausland.

 

Der einzige Weg nach vorne besteht darin, alle Befreiungskämpfer in einer revolutionären Partei zu organisieren, die auf einem Programm des unabhängigen und internationalen Klassenkampfes basiert. Ein solcher Kampf muss auf den revolutionären Sturz aller herrschenden Klassen und auf die Schaffung einer Welt ohne Klassen, ohne Unterdrückung und ohne Ausbeutung abzielen. Wir nennen eine solche Welt "Sozialismus". Kämpft mit uns gemeinsam für eine gerechte und ehrliche Zukunft!

 

 

 

Fußnoten

 

[1] Auszüge aus dem Brief sind zitiert in: Tom Miles: Saudi Arabia and Russia among 37 states backing China's Xinjiang policy, July 12, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-rights/saudi-arabia-and-russia-among-37-states-backing-chinas-xinjiang-policy-idUSKCN1U721X; Muslim countries defend Chinese 'concentration camps', 12 July, 2019 https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/12/muslim-countries-defend-chinese-concentration-camps; Patrick Goodenough: China Thanks 37 Countries, Including Islamic States, for Praising Its Uighur Policies, July 15, 2019, https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/china-thanks-37-countries-including-islamic-states-praising-its

 

[2] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reviews the report of China, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 13 August 2018, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23452&LangID=E; siehe auch Al Jazeera: One million Muslim Uighurs held in secret China camps: UN panel, 2018-08-10, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/million-muslim-uighurs-held-secret-china-camps-panel-180810185817270.html

 

[3] Zur Einschätzung der RCIT des Regimes in Nordkorea siehe z.B. Michael Pröbsting: Has Capitalist Restoration in North Korea Crossed the Rubicon or Not? 15 July 2018, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/has-capitalist-restoration-in-north-korea-crossed-the-rubicon-or-not/ (siehe auch die in den Fußnoten angeführte Literatur der RCIT); zu Kuba siehe z.B. Michael Pröbsting: Cuba’s Revolution Sold Out? The Road from Revolution to the Restoration of Capitalism, RCIT Books, Vienna 2013, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/cuba-s-revolution-sold-out/; zu Venezuela siehe z.B. RCIT: Attempted Coup D'etat in Venezuela: Defeat Guaidó and Trump! https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/latin-america/attempted-coup-d-etat-in-venezuela-defeat-guaido-trump/ (siehe auch die in den Fußnoten angeführte Literatur der RCIT), statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 5 May 2019

 

[4] Zur Position des RCIT zur russischen Unterdrückung der Tschetschenen bzw. zur Unterdrückung der Rohingya-Muslime in Myanmar siehe z.B. Solidarität mit dem Befreiungskampf des tschetschenischen Volkes! Februar 2018, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/solidarity-with-the-liberation-struggle-of-the-chechen-people/; Myanmar: Solidarity with the Uprising of the Rohingya Muslims! 27.08.2017, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/solidarity-with-rohingya-muslims/

 

[5] Zu Chinas Rolle in Afrika siehe z.B. RCIT: Theses on Capitalism and Class Struggle in Black Africa, 13 April 2017, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/africa-theses/ (Part II).

 

[6] Für die Analyse des RCIT über China als imperialistische Großmacht verweisen wir auf die Literatur, die im speziellen Unterabschnitt unserer Website angeführt wird:https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/china-russia-as-imperialist-powers/. Insbesondere verweisen wir auf: Michael Pröbsting: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry. The Factors behind the Accelerating Rivalry between the U.S., China, Russia, EU and Japan. A Critique of the Left’s Analysis and an Outline of the Marxist Perspective, RCIT Books, January 2019, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/; Michael Pröbsting: The China-India Conflict: Its Causes and Consequences. What are the background and the nature of the tensions between China and India in the Sikkim border region? What should be the tactical conclusions for Socialists and Activists of the Liberation Movements? 18 August 2017, Revolutionary Communism No. 71, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/china-india-rivalry/; Michael Pröbsting: The China Question and the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, December 2014, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/reply-to-csr-pco-on-china/; Michael Pröbsting: China‘s transformation into an imperialist power. A study of the economic, political and military aspects of China as a Great Power, in: Revolutionary Communism No. 4,http://www.thecommunists.net/publications/revcom-number-4.

 

[7] Siehe dazu z.B. Cary Huang: Erdogan abandoned the Uygurs to court China. Will he do same to the US? South China Morning Post, 14 July 2019 https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3018420/erdogan-abandoned-uygurs-court-china-will-he-do-same-us; Sun Haoran: Xi meets with Erdogan on BRI, ties, Global Times 2019/7/2 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1156561.shtml; Killian Cogan: Turkey abandons Uighurs in favor of Chinese investment, January 9, 2019 https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/01/turkey-renounces-historic-defense-of-uighurs.html#ixzz5cATfhaPk; Li Weijian: Economic interests define Erdogan’s China visit, Global Times 2019/7/1 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1156382.shtml

 

[8] Quoted in Turkey's President Erdogan claims Muslim Uighur minority 'live happily' in China, despite abuse reports, 3 July, 2019 https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/3/erdogan-says-muslim-uighur-minority-live-happily-in-xinjiang

 

[9] Siehe hierzu z.B. Kapitel “VIII. Revisionist Whitewashing: Stalinist and Bolivarian Admirers of Beijing’s “Socialism”” in “Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry”.

 

[10] Siehe z.B, auch. Michael Pröbsting: China: Defend the Muslim Uyghurs against Oppression! 18.10.2018, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/china-defend-the-muslim-uyghurs-against-oppression/; TV Discussion about the Situation of the Muslim Uyghurs in China, Report (with Pictures and Video) by the Austrian Section of the RCIT, 25 March 2019, https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/tv-discussion-about-the-situation-of-the-muslim-uyghurs-in-china/

 

[11] Siehe dazu die entsprechenden Kapitel über nationale Unterdrückung in den Programmen der RCIT: Manifesto for Revolutionary Liberation (Chapter IV), October 2016, https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit-program-2016/; The Revolutionary Communist Manifesto (Chapter V), 2012, https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit-manifesto/; Siehe auch: Michael Pröbsting: The Struggle for Democracy in the Imperialist Countries Today, August 2015, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/democracy-vs-imperialism/