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The ‘national flag’ of Laos was originally the flag of the Laos Patriotic Front (LPF) which was a ‘united front’ opposing Western imperialism in Laos pre-1975 – and which resisted the many (illegal) military incursions into Laos by the US Military! The ‘red’ rectangles represent the victory of the ‘Socialist’ Revolution paid for with the blood of the Laotian people! The ‘blue’ rectangles represent the beautiful land of Laos – and the peaceful and laid-back attitude of the people! The ‘white’ circle symbolises the ‘unity’ of the Laotian people under the leadership of the Laotian Communist Party – and the ‘bright’ future the country has under ‘Socialism’! The ‘white circle’ also symbolises the ‘bright moon’ shining over the Mekong River. Due to the devastation caused to the country by the (illegal) US blanket-bombing campaigns and other military operations into the area during the 1960s and 1970s – the actual number of Laotian casualties remains unknown. Speculations suggests the low thousands to the high hundreds of thousands (and even millions)! These US War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity have never been ‘acknowledged’ or properly ‘investigated’ by the United Nations (UN). Although the Laotian Communist Party successfully militarily defeated the colonial French, the imperialist US (and their allies) - bringing a permanent ‘end’ to these mass-killings of Laotian people – it is now the US that falsely accuses the Laotian Government of committing ‘atrocities’ against its own people (whilst providing no evidence) as a means to ‘camouflage’ its own historical criminality in the area! In August 1991, the Supreme People's Assembly enacted the First Constitution of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The Constitution clearly stipulates that the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is a (Socialist) People’s Democratic Country. As the Soviet Union was being dismantled and reverted to the predatory capitalist system (causing all kinds of suffering to the Russian people) the Laotian Marxist-Leninists were determined that their young Socialist State (founded on December 2nd, 1975) would stay vibrant through ‘reform’. This is why it was confirmed that ‘All Power Belongs to the People’ - and that this will not change! People of all ethnic groups were guaranteed to continue exerciing their rights as equal citizens under the leadership of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP). Furthermore, although the ‘national emblem’ of Laos was altered in 1991 – removing the red star, axe and sickle and replacing these icons with examples of Luang-type architecture – this symbol (and many others) remains distinctly ‘Marxist-Leninist’ meaning. The two ears of rice denote an affluence of the national crop under Socialism: the large tower represents historical Laotian architectural and a future achievement of construction under Socialism, there are also symbols Laotian engineering in the modern sense; there is a gear, a dam, forests, fields and other industrial icons as well as clean water and abundant forestry; The ear of rice symbolizes success in agriculture. The ribbons on both sides read "Peace, Independence, Democracy, Unity, Prosperity", and the ribbon at the bottom reads "Lao People's Democratic Republic". The Laotian people favour Theravada Buddhism which has retained much of the flavour of ‘Early Buddhism’. As Buddhist teaching is known to be friendly toward ‘Socialist’ ideology – the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) has recognised the importance of Buddhism acting as a cohesive cultural force amongst ALL the Laotian people – and a unifying factor that spreads evenly through the rich and poor areas created by historical exploitation associated with outmoded feudalism and Western imperialism. The economic damage inflicted on Laos by the Europeans and Americans will probably take decades to eradicate – but the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) has been instigating widespread educational, welfare, medical, housing and employment reform (in-part) through the already existing infrastructure of widespread Buddhist temples, monasteries and shrines. Traditional Buddhist education, of course, emphasises the similarities and compatibilities between Early Buddhist philosophy and the ideology of Classical Marxism and Marxist-Leninism! This is how Buddhist monks living in the most remote areas of the Laotian countryside directly assist the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) by bringing much need Socialist education and reform to these areas! In this regard, Buddhism is a major component of Laotian Marxist-Leninism and Communist ideology! Many people from China travel to Laos for relaxing holidays to another ‘Socialist’ country where they will be ‘safe’ and very ‘welcomed’. The travel blogs penned by these tourists offer a rare insight into the everyday life of Laotian people which the Americans and Europeans (aided and abetted by the English-language Wikipedia) would like you not to know about – simply because it tends to demonstrate the success of a ‘Socialist’ country and contradicts all the usual ‘racist’ lies propagated by the anti-Asian and anti-Socialist Western media. In this case, a husband-and-wife couple set-off from Shenzhen in China and flew to Vientiane – the capital city of Laos – spending six days exploring the country during April, 2018! The Chinese blogger stated that although the Laotian ‘Socialist State’ has only existed since 1975 (a mere 43-years of reconstruction) - much had already been achieved! The country of Laos is peaceful, clean and populated by a happy and content people! Wealth and infrastructural development have been developing within city areas and spreading outward into the countryside. This socio-economic development is slow but continuous for a country with just a seven-million population. However, the remote Buddhist temples (and other centres) have served as ‘re-distribution’ points for resources and services into villages areas that do not yet have a developed infrastructure. This has allowed for some villages and towns to develop ‘oases’ of Socialist reform even amongst areas (and peoples) who have suffered abject poverty in the past. The Buddhist monks then assist such developed village and town to ‘link together’ to combine the benefits of their ‘Socialist’ development! Of course, this dramatic success of integrating Buddhism and Socialism is ignored in the West – and flatly ‘denied’ by the forces of bourgeois Buddhism which is in the service of the capitalist exploiters! Chinese Language Sources:
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As a political commissar, one of my main tasks is to assist existing religious practitioners and institutes to ‘align’ their ideology with that of Marxist-Leninism. This is not a ‘choice’ but rather a ‘necessity’. The reality is that millions of people follow a religion of some type, and given that religion is not ‘out-lawed’ in a Socialist Society – but rather ‘guaranteed’ - it is important that the two ideologies understand one another and know how to constructively interact. This process is already far advanced within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and North Korea (DPRK), etc, but is still not understood as a concept amongst many areas of Western Marxist thinking. One thing is certain – Marxist-Leninism does not ‘out-law’ or ‘oppress’’ religion in any way, but rather shifts the place within society within which religions operate. Religion is moved from the ‘public’ to the ‘private sphere for its own protection and security. Religious institutions are shifted out of the political arena and will play no further role in that direction (as the Communist Party develops society through the use of modern science). As religion was founded around the principle of finding existential ‘freedom’ within (or outside of) society, it has no place interfering in the political process. As such, by relocating it into the ‘private’ sphere it may reassert its speciality of providing a vehicle for individual ‘freedom’ from whatever issue or reality it deems responsible for human suffering. In reality, this places religion in a much stronger traditional setting and encourages freedom of worship and tolerance of difference. As no single religion is permitted to ‘dominate’ society (or any other religion), existing in the ‘private’ sphere is a new position of ‘empowerment’ for the religiously minded. As Western religions are in bed with the forces of predatory capitalism, these people resent any attempt at interfering with the positioning of religion within society. From this profit-seeking perspective, moving religion from the ‘public’ to the ‘private’ sphere is deliberately interpreted as ‘oppressive’ - because these people equate ‘religion’ with material ‘profit-seeking’ here on Earth! None of this matters, of course, but Marxist-Leninists must be aware of the process of administering religion within a Socialist society.
Many authors from the US and Western Europe perpetuate the disturbing habit of justifying and normalising the contemporary modal of predatory capitalism, by severely criticising any attempt to move away from it. Authors such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, for example, attempt to ‘normalise’ the capitalist system by demonising and stigmatising any alternative visions of humanity as being ‘dystopic.’ Of course, the deck is stacked in the favour of their objective as they ensure that truly disturbing, unsavoury or nightmarish realities are ‘invented’ and ‘inserted’ in their narratives to give flesh to the bones of their contentions. Anyone can invent a nightmare and use fear to prevent the easily-led from exploring a certain avenue of exploration. Parents have done this to children since time immemorial, but the intended audience of these dystopic fictions are generally not children – but adults! The authors who employ this scare tactic make a living out of their labours, but more than this, they seek to preserve the idyllic (bourgeois) enclave within which they live, and within which most other people do not live. To achieve this objective, the capitalist system must be presented as the only viable alternative for humanity when all other variants have been considered (the latter of which NEVER happens beyond the sensational). Every word they write buzzes with a ‘narrow’ pro-capitalist rhetoric disguised as ‘universal’ concern for the welfare of humanity! Changing any aspect of contemporary capitalism is automatically associated with the agency of ‘horror’. There is a certain ‘technophobe’ element to this style of writing which the capitalist system extols – with a warning that ordinary people do not possess the intellectual ability or physical prowess to take control of society and guide its development in a different direction to the one it has been going in. This style of science fiction is therefore anti-working-class and anti-Socialist – as the true-horror for the likes of Huxley and Orwell is the proletariat taking-over the control of society and eradicating the unjust and unfair privileges currently enjoyed by the bourgeoisie. A question never asked is ‘where does the true horror lie?’ Predatory capitalism, when viewed honestly and across its broad spectrum of manifestation, presents an image of absolute and true horror a thousand times more terrible, frightening and deadly than anything that has emanated from the pens of Huxley or Orwell! Why is the brutal and oppressive (existential) reality of capitalism never assessed by these bourgeois science fiction writers? The answer is simple – it is because that if they admit the genuinely ‘horrific’ nature of capitalism, they will be betraying the interests of their own class. The pointing-out of the ‘horror’ of everyday capitalist existence is to simultaneously point-out the ‘how’ and ‘why’ the bourgeoisie live in an oasis of capitalist excess built on the bones of the millions of workers who have died earning it for them! Starvation, homelessness, illness, injury, high mortality, deformity, illiteracy, criminality, rape, murder and mayhem! The true horror of the heart of capitalism is the physical and psychological impoverishment of the majority of the people who waste their bodies performing soul-destroying labour which keeps the privileged few sat in their studies sipping tea and making-up nightmarish stories as to why it is that things cannot be changed!
Marx and Engels correctly observed that external conditions influence the type of inner psychological and emotional terrain an individual experiences, whilst the functioning mind-set – through thought and action – can influence (and change) how the external environment manifests and operates! These observations can be read in the ‘Theses on Feuerbach’. The type of society a child is born into – conditions the ‘type’ of mind-set the child develops – whilst how an individual ‘thinks’ (following education and other experiences of life) can influence the type of behaviour (and interaction) the individual exerts upon the physical environment. Obviously, the logical suggestion is that a fully functioning physical environment pre-exists the ‘birth’ of each individual – and serves as a ‘rich’ depository of influences that channel the human-mind into a particular frequency of functionality. However, as the human-mind can be further influenced by all kinds of stimulus which direct its thinking-process into multitudinous directions, it is possible that given the right kind of influence, the ‘true’ reality of the external world can be clearly grasped, and a Revolutionary direction of behaviour embarked upon! The thinking is that once a Socialist Revolution is successfully achieved in the outer world – then an entirely ‘new’ inner terrain for humanity is experienced! Where meditation is useful is that it can ‘clear’ the inner mind of the ‘delusion’ and ‘confusion’ caused by the external environment of a capitalist society! Meditation can achieve this as an ‘act of will’ which allows an individual to ‘detach’ themselves from the strictures of predatory capitalism, and whilst still living in a capitalist society, and mould their behaviour in such a way so as to live in a progressive manner that helps assist the development of physical conditions that bring a successful Socialist Revolution ever-closer! This can happen because Buddhist meditation ‘uproots’ the essence of the capitalist system from deep within the habits of the mind. What is this ‘essence’ of the capitalist system? Is is greed, hatred and delusion. Being outwardly ‘non-attached’ to physical stimulus and inwardly ‘calm’ and ‘still’ can only result in the reality of Socialism! This means that by realising ‘empty’ space in the mind is directly linked to perceiving the ‘empty’ space of the physical environment – with the two experiences ‘integrating’ into one reality. This is how Buddhist meditation can bring a further layer of developmental structure to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist ideology. Buddhist meditation allows for the idea that individuals can ‘free’ their minds and bodies from being ‘directly’ influenced by capitalist ideology whilst still physically existing within a capitalist society! Of course, the external reality is still ‘capitalist’, but individuals can ‘detach’ their psychological processes and sensory reactions from the habitual ‘predatory’ nature of the capitalist system. Such an achievement propels the individual into a permanent state of ‘transition’ which has the tendency of moving all thought and behaviour into the direction of Socialism. This is a ‘new’ state of achieving ‘Socialism’ that acts in accordance with the thinking of Marx and Engels – but which was not developed in their writings during their lifetimes. This is despite the fact that Marx and Engels knew about Buddhism (via their friend ‘Karl Koppen’), but never had to time (or experience) to develop a ‘theory’ in this direction. Buddhist meditation, as a method of ‘uncoupling’ the inner-being from the outer capitalist system could well be developed into an objective science free of all religiosity no different to studying the written works of Marx and Engels!
The above document is my research suggesting a philosophical link between the Buddha's theory of matter and transformation (as recorded in the 'Chain of Dependent Origination') and the theory of 'Historical Materialism' as developed by Karl Marx! The bourgeois publishing industry in the UK and the USA is not interested in this type of 'Socialist' research and so will not consider disseminating any of it through conventional publishing deals. Furthermore, although Buddhism, Daoism and Confucanism are thriving philosophies and religions within Mainland China - the same bourgeois publishing companies continue to perpetuate the Japanese and US (racist) 'myth' that Chinese religion no longer exists, etc. This ignorance about a country whose population numbers over one billion, and which possesses the oldest 'unbroken' culture in the world - is truly staggering! As I am an expert in Chinese philosophy, culture and political development - and the foremost scholar in the world concerning the correlation between Classical Marxism and Early Buddhism - I made a decision a long time ago to by-pass the corrupt bourgeois publishing industry and as well as sharing my research with fellow academics around the world, to also make it 'directly' available to the general public. Those who need it will surely discovver it and make a good use of it.
For Marx religion is like a fix of opium designed to take the minds (and bodies) of the collective working-class off of the daily suffering implicit within the life of a capitalist society! Whilst for Lenin, religion of any sort is nothing but a ‘fog’ which distorts the collective thinking of the working-class. Furthermore, Marx exposes the underlying philosophical premise of any form of theism as being the product of ‘inverted’ thought processes, or to put it another way, a body of knowledge built upon a foundation of illogical thinking and incorrect conclusions. Marx explains that the idea of an ‘all-knowing’ God is nothing but a ‘thought’ in the human mind – a product of wishful thinking and imagination – which is then mistaken as existing ‘independently’ somewhere ‘out there’ in the universe. This argument is as powerful as it is simplistic and straightforward. For Marx, the vast body of theological literature does not matter – as it is all premised upon a false understanding of reality that relies upon ‘blind faith’ to exist and continue to exist. This is where religion receives its greatest support, as ‘faith’ does not require logical though or correct scientific scrutiny to ‘exist’ and ‘function’ throughout society. The Church Authorities are political entities that support the predatory capitalist system, and they sustain this influence (regardless of its obvious ‘corruption’) through the propagation of the agency of ‘faith’. Just as the Medieval Church gained its political power by aligning itself with the imperial Roman apparatus – modern Christianity has been developed by the bourgeoisie to represents its own best class interests – and grew-out of the process of industrialisation over the last four-years or so. Modern Christianity, therefore, exists as a statement of class dominance by the bourgeoisie which masquerades as a vehicle for personal development and deliverance. By transferring ‘religion’ from the ‘public’ to the ‘private’ sphere – as Marx and Lenin agree – the power-mongering of its modern priesthood is dismantled and disempowered. Religious doctrine is then replaced into a position of its founding – where it becomes a vehicle for self-cultivation with NO political ambitions or political power. An argument can be made that by placing religion into the ‘private’ sphere – religion is being returned to its ‘genuine’ state and purpose of being a vehicle for ‘inner’ development. This private-undertaking should be the only ‘lawful’ function that religious possesses. The ideology of Marxist-Leninism suggests that as times unfolds throughout a ‘Socialist’ society (which sees the working-class seizing control of the means of production) - it is believed that the ‘impulse’ toward religion will eventually die-out quite naturally as society is transformed from one of exploitation’ to that of ‘collective co-operation' - from ‘daily suffering’ to ‘daily collective and personal empowerment’! As the outward aspect of social organisation becomes ‘classless’, ‘just’, ‘productive’ and ‘equalitarian’, etc, the ‘inner’ health and vibrancy of the human-condition will becomes so ‘purified’, ‘positive’ and ‘progressive’ that there will no longer appear the impulse for the need for religion to arise as a psychological, emotional and physical habit. Therefore, Marxist-Leninist ideology offers a critique of religion that is so devastating to the Bourgeois Church that its power-brokers would rather support the ideology of ‘fascism’ and declare Marxism to be ‘evil’ than honestly and truthfully face the allegations levelled by Marx and striving to work with its conclusions rather than propagandising against it. Religion, if handled the right-way, can be useful for the development of a Socialist society, with any Socialist government possessing the moral responsibility of ‘integrating’ religionists into a new Socialist world-order with as little friction as possible. ACW (15.4.2021)
This new blog is entitled 'Red Metta' for obvious reasons and will be a place for posting political commentaty and important research breakthroughs! As the social media platforms in the West are under the control of the United States - and given that the US is inherently 'anti-Socialist' - these platforms cannot be trusted to 'share' our posts properly, or give Marxist-Leninists (Maoists) a fair-hearing! This being the case, The 'Revolutionary Steering Committee' has decided to retain the 'Jeremy Corbyn' section (as a 'legacy' post) and to initiate this excellet blogging platform designed to further the propagation of the philosophical relationship that exists between Classical Marxism (of Marx and Engels) and the Early Buddhist philosophy of the historical (Indian) Buddha! Our in-house researcher - Dr Adrian Chan-Wyles - will be in-charge of compiling and regulating this blogging space with the RSC making a formal statement in due course.
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