"Remembering Mao's legacy, Seeking Truth from Facts, and counter the order and its revisions"

"Remembering Mao's legacy, 

 Seeking Truth from Facts, 

 and counter the order and its revisions"

At first, this solemn commemoration of Mao Zedong's birth is of remembering one of the greatest contributors in the history of Marxism-Leninism, the man who dutifully transformed China as he created socialism in his country, and whose thought would ever illuminates in asserting one's independence, of seeking truth from facts, and of recognising the ability of the folk as the creators of their country's history.

And for the fact that progressives and revolutionaries are entitled to commemorate revolutionary thinkers and fighters, one would say that the best if not the only way to continue a legacy us to carry the struggle forward, in further cultivating a view and to  take practise even in this ever present conditions. For sure there are those who will dismiss this note, thinking that Mao or any other revolutionary thinker as unnecessary in a time of modern this and that; only to find that these people who dismiss rather bow down obsequiously before the the present order that's of neoliberal capitalism, globalisation, or in the case of China itself, its social-imperialism.

Xi parroting Mao
while continuing the Dengist road

And to think that China under the era of Xi Jinping has trying to "bring back" studying Mao so as to study again the works of Marx, it may deemed meaningless as the country itself has held on to the capitalist road brought by Deng Xiaoping and continued to this present day, having new skills but carrying old ideas such as those of taking the capitalist road and fostering it through exploitation and disenfranchisement, not just on China alone but also in neighbouring countries, becoming flies and mosquitoes which flit endlessly over the garbage dumps of decadence and corruption that has shown today.

But despite these dismissions, those who study Mao and contribute to his works are the awakened folks who tend to carry on the enduring legacy of Mao Zedong and his thought. That by "seeking truth from facts" has further expose and oppose those who stood against the will of the folk, of waging struggles against neoliberalism, globalisation, imperialism be it those of US and revisionist China, and its domestic lackeys. These words may consider as deemphasised if not outright unnecessary in a time when "economic development" or "modernisation" as the mainline dictum, but even in this modern conditions studying Mao Zedong's thought and applying in the present is more than just seeking truth nor exposing and opposing the corrupt order, but also to advance further the cause of the people all for genuine democracy, national and social liberation, and community empowerment.

And as a fundamental contribution to Marxism-Leninism, would say that Mao's works, especially serving the people and in seeking truth from facts is a way to understand local and international situation and to push forward an alternative. Despite ironically, seeing revisionists like Deng Xiaoping up to those of Xi Jinping would speak those words, while the fact that they seriously pursue a different direction and redescribing itself as having a "Chinese characteristic". This characteristic assumes itself as "socialist" when in fact it becomes capitalist and even social imperialist, as it replaced the idea of empowering the people and community with those of capitalist-oriented "economic development" and "modernisation", and letting the idea of proletarian dictatorship be liquidated in favor of "class collaboration" as big businesses assuming themselves as "socialists" or "communists" and to spread the idea of gaining markets to exploit and plunder while pretending themselves as for the people.

With this would say that the once revolutionary country has followed the example of the former Soviet Union in becoming a social-imperialist, and the United States as Neoliberal and an outright Capitalist, in parroting the idea of "development" as a form of soft power to the maldeveloped; if not to see multinational companies gaining profit as it continues to hold its markets in China, and business deals with the United States, Russia, and the European Union continues all at the expense of the laboring folk and its communities.

But despite these statements would say that those who truly serve the people and seriously seeking truth from facts has the will to oppose a view that's deviating from the revolutionary direction and into captalist restoration/consolidation. That by "being rich as glorious" justifies plunder and exploitation, if not the words "reform", "modernisation", and "development" even it disempowers the labouring folk and the community, making a former worker who, from a Washington Post interview since 2012 expressed his personal angst against the "capitalist road" ever taken by "Chinese communists" and desires a renewed struggle:

"They call it socialism, but Deng Xiaoping, [the architect of China’s market reforms], has created a system that combines the worst of all worlds: hyper-capitalism, corruption and fascism,"

"Seeking truth to expose and struggle
against the current of oppression"

As today's China continues to traverse its capitalist direction while keeping the word socialism, developing countries like the Philippines continues to be enslaved by both domestic and foreign interests especially through its modern form of debt peonage.

For as President Rodrigo Duterte acts aa a vassal to Xi Jinping, he surrendered his country to China as he surrendered further to international capital like those of his predecessors.

That by parroting the idea of change, order, and development, the treachery brought by the order aggravates existing problems regardless of its numerous debt-driven achievements and half-baked "reforms" and "programs". And since it bows to Chinese, as any other foreign interests would say that the inital patriotic-laden statements turns out to be words meant to snare the people to support their interests, no matter how controversial its nature be it the surrender of its patrimony or the ever growing terrorism that's meant to consolidate the order.

Apologists may disagree on this as they defend their idol and its "numerous achievements", but as the concerned masses investigate, seeking truth from facts, comes exposing the contrary to what the order dubbed as development. For as developing countries feel the effects of a "debt trap" caused by China's loans and other existing debts, coupled with unjust agreements and concessions, comes the giving up of one's patrimony for some semblance of progress. Worse, to see an order expanding its interests by further entering foreign capital at the expense of labour, community, and the environment.

And also to think that Duterte's policies bear no difference from his neoliberal-monetarist predecessors the people continuously assert the desire for national independence and sovereignty, empowered community, and a vibrant people's democracy that values serving the people faithfully, of seeking truth from facts, and to further cultivate self reliance to promote a truly empowered and developed society.

Sounds idealistic yes, but so long as the country, as any other developing country, continues to be victimised by neoliberal and globalist policies, of debt traps and "reforms" benefiting their ruling orders, would say that their system has failed, much worse, betrayed the people just to maintain their interests while assuming themselves as for the people or for the country; but did their agendas really empower the folk and their community? No, it is the ruling order that disenfranchises them to the point that it has to give up patrimony in any form, no matter it tries to assume as beneficent (such as in a form of infrastructure program or whatsoever) when in fact they carried much about their interest. 

With this would say that national struggle is a matter of class struggle, and the ruthless socioeconomic exploitation and political oppression forced the masses, particularly the worker in the city and the peasant in the countryside to be aware of their society and its problems further, to assert necessary reforms up to those of taking up arms against its rule to assert a radical alternative.

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How come this note, despite commemorating Mao is at the same time assailing the order including those who "praise" him for his contributions? With regard to China, there were internal conditions that bred a variant of modern revisionism as petty-bourgeoisified bureaucrats and intelligentsia seizes political power and declare prematurely that the class struggle has ended.
And his view would reminds of replacing the proletarian dictatorship to those of a vague tagline "state of the entire people" while it systematically remove those who adhere to an ideal, prate about the need for social order, create massive concessions with capitalists as it delivers the working people to exploitation-and redescribing these as "reforms" or "modernisations". This situation has mocked whom they "praised with", while those who adhere to Mao, as in Marx and Lenin, are themselves pointing their arms against the exploiter including those who betrayed a revolutionary view.

Anyway, regardless of the situation brought by today's neoliberals and "socialists", that those who adhere in the teachings of Mao, and seriously seeking truth from facts will still dare to expose and oppose every oppressive order and to transform patriotism into a working class, revolutionary variant in order to assert further independence, a vibrant peoples democracy, and to build socialism that empowers the laboring folk and the community through self reliance and genuine solidarity.