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As the professor knows full 11, THERE IS NO CONCRETE D A TO "PROVE" THAT THE P PLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS AN IMPERIALIST COUNTRY. the data to which the pro- f 'sor refers is nothing more the usual slanders aga- i t People's China that are cocted by the imperialist i oologues such as fiOn one d China says it is against n clear warfare, on the other C ina is developing nuclear weapons“, and that, ” If China is such an anti-imperialist country then why did the Chi- nese leaders invite Nixon to visit China?”. These slanders and innuendoes against Peeple's China are so flimsy they do not deserve an answer. The practice of the People's Re- public of China speaks for itself. However, imperialist ideologues and scholar despots present these argumats as "concrete data" in order to -"prove" the "contradictions" 'between China's anti-imper- ialist foriegn policy and China's practice in order to confuse the students and the world's people into thinking that China is an imperialist country and that there is no such thing as upholding prin-' ciple. The very "concrete da- ta" however show that the very opposite point -- that is BECAUSE China is an anti-im- perialist_country that she is developing nuclear weapons and that she invited Nixon to China.

If we look at the exam ques- tion, the professor is asking us to argue a point whether we believe in it or not. In the capitalist world this is known as "debating a point”. To "debate a point" means to present a very good argument to prove a point and to use concrete data to suit the argument. This demands that one be most unscientific in one's approach. Rather than seek truth from facts, one uses the facts to suit ones- elf, which is the essence of fascist science whereby the pseudo-scientist first de- clares some fascist theory such as "blacks are inferior to whites” and proceeds to find the 'concrete data' to 'prove' the point. In a 'de- bate' the person that pre- sents the most '1ogica1' ans- wer 'wins'. This 'proving of a point' through the use of logic exposes the real fascist essence of bourgeois logic.Pure logic, as perfec- ted by the philosopher Kant, is a thoroughly idealistic system whereby so long as one point is the logical consequence of the other, then it does not matter whether. they have anything to do with the real world or not. The conclusion arrived at is then paraded as being equivalent to the 'truth'. In this way, the bourgeois world outlook whereby everything is a mat- ter of discussion, defin- ition and interpretation and the real world is unknowable becomes entrenched and 'every-

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one is entitled to their own opinion'. Thus, for instance, if I say that: "All acts of U.S. foreign policy are for peace. The U.S. invasion of Viet Nam is an act of for- eign policy. Therefore the U.S. invasion of VietNam is an act of peace."; or again "In statesto-state relations ideology is of little conse- quence. Ideology only lends a cover of legitimacy to the underlying pursuit of state interests. China's ideology is socialist, therefor social- ist ideology is used as a co- ver of legitimacy to the un- derlying pursuit of China's state interests." The fal- sity of this logic is self- evident. It is uded by the imperialists to train in- tellectuals to ignore the real world and concoct truth be confuse the people. The main ‘feature of'logic' or of 'pure logic' is that it is based on a false or a priori premise in the first place and every conclusion that is drawn from the premise is as incorrect as the premise itself.

Underlying this method of .work is the imperialist men- tality of a sell-out which the imperialist universities attempt to inculcate in the

students. The exam question makes no distinction between an imperialist country and its foreign policy and a so- cialist country and its for- eign policy. For instance, when the U.S. imperialists talk about 'treaties of fri- endship and co-operation', they mean 'the better to plu- nder your land and labour'; when they talk about 'arms limitations' they means arms expansion and when they talk about 'alliance for progress' they mean progress for them- selves in plundering the land and labour of the underde- veloped and over-exploited countries. This is because they are imperialist countr- ies. The U.S. is an imper- ialist superpower whose one aim is to dominate the world and lord it over the world's people. The essence of im- poeialism is agression and war. A socialist country,

however, is based on the opp- osite principles. The People's Republic of China, together with the People's Republic

of albania is the bastion of socialism in the world and

the red bastion of the world anti-imperialist United Front. Just as the imperialists did everything in their power to slander and discredit the' Soviet Union of Lenin and Sta- lin and weaken the inter- national support of the wor- ld's people for the young socialist state in order to prepare conditions to 'wipe out', so now, the imperialists and their ideologues want to discredit the People's Repub- lic of China. The main trick used by them is slander, go- ssip and rumour campaign. And this examination question is most trecherous in its use

of these tricks. -

The basic point of the exam question is that there is no such thing as upholding prin- ciple in the world, that ba- sically everyone is a sold- out character and there is no other way to be. The pro- fessor puts the students into a position wherin they are FORCED TO WRITE LIES AND SLANDERS as passes it off as , 'concrete data'. According to the professor, one should ignore 'one's personal views on the matter' -- that is to say that necessarily one's

/personal views are unreliable,

based on 'subjective bias'. In this manner the view ispf put over that there is al- ways a hiatus between theory and practice and it is im- possible to have a practice that.is consistent with one's principles. But the imper- ialists themselves have a con- sistent theory and practice in that they set out to plun- der and exploit the world's people and that is precisely what they do. Similarly, the People's Republics set out

to defeat imperialism and all reaction the world over and ghis is precisely what they

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The role of the imperialist universities however is to train a section of the pop-