Chinese Communist Party
1921 - 2021
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It is mistaken to think that the East, understood in a broad sense that includes the South or the Third World, has, somehow a moral or spiritual superiority over the West, let alone a political one. The Western fable of the 'Eastern' or 'Southern' Noble Savage, absorbed, interiorised and brutally used and manipulated by the ruthless oligarchies of the East to confound and dominate their own populations and intimidate those of the West, is false.
Empirical evidence suggests that, although some 'savages' could have been noble, indeed, as noble as any other Western 'savage' at least, the populations of the 'East' have never been exempt of merciless exploitation, greed and material lust. The most recent history of the world, shows that the eagerness for consumption and material wealth of emerging societies like China, Russia, India or Vietnam, has been as fundamental and pervasive as that found in the most greedy and 'materialist' of Western societies, if not more.
The thin veneer of spirituality, simplicity and modesty in 'Eastern' societies, normally forced on the majority for sheer poverty, deprivation, or impotence cannot fool any serious observer. The numerous nouveau rich, the massive greed of the oligarchs and billionaires and the insatiable thirst for consumption of the 'East', have only parallels in the vane fables of mythical history. Indeed, the ideological and greedy pull exercised by the fake glitter of a 'wealthy' West, that based its real wealth on the bloody struggles of organised labour, has attracted and deluded many 'Eastern' populations to such an extend, that it might have caused the collapse of 'socialist' societies by disinterest, despondency and mass migration to the West.
Glitter, kitsch, pageantry and display of wealth are a common trait among 'Eastern' peoples, even more than among some classes in the West. If neither political freedom, nor political conciousness, is easy to get in the West because of the strenuous efforts of the exploiters to depoliticise the population, in the 'East' there few and far between those who protest, show conciousness or even think about politics. The 'East' still lags behind in political struggle and 'freedom', political 'freedom' is not a commodity on true demand. The West is, like even Mr Zizek mentioned some time ago, catching up, fast, with the depoliticised 'East', the absolute rule of the 'Eastern Mandarins' in which, as Hegel said, 'only one is free'. That is what is going on in the world of today. Sadly, 'East' or West, there is no 'Noble Savage'.
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