International Viewpoint Archive

The Fourth International’s English-language review, from 1982

Asia: Australia: All Together against Hanson

· International Viewpoint No. 291, July 1997 · p 19 · 263 words

PORKLINE:

HANSON

"The Other White cross-section of the community, including Aboriginal and Asian youth, students, trade unionists and families of all ages who were there to express their views peacefully... It is a pity that the media focused on the scuffles with National Action - which lasted all of a few minutes - instead of reporting on the largely peaceful rally, which was, of course, less sensational."

"People are fed up with her lies and attacks on Aboriginal and

ENTPOTA that unlike the incumbent Chinese Communist regime they promise an end to authoritarianism, since the wealth generated by market socialism will give rise to democratic processes. But the notion of democratic procommunities,"

migrant he continued. "Hanson is whipping up a racist atmosphere which will only serve to deny

Aboriginal people and

TPAC cesses - like the labour process - is borrowed from capitalist experience.

As with "liberal Marxist' opponents of the Chinese Communist regime such as Su

Shaozhi, the forms of democratic participation envisaged by market socialists are migrants their democratic rights... It is important to directly challenge the message of racists like Hanson and Howard, so that it

PISS OFF derived from the institutional forms which exist in capitalist societies, and presumes a

PAULINE separation of the political and the economic that mimics the ideologies of capitalism."

The proponents of 'actually existing market socialism' in China offer us less a coherent conception of a feasible socialism, doesn't have the space to flourish." *

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