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India leads in world support for Bush:


International poll results prove MIM right again

By International Minister, June 22, 2006

International poll results released by the U.$. foreign policy establishment June 13 show anti-Amerikanism spreading globally.(1) To those familiar with our organization, this is no longer surprising. Opposition to the united $tates is the main locus of class struggle in the world. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is not dead because, anti-Amerikanism is greater than ever.

Given that most educated people already know where the trend has been going, what is new in these poll results also justifies MIM's rejection of fake communists trying to oppose "both" imperialist countries (none of which are Islamic) and Islamic oppressed nations. There is no middle ground between U.$. imperialism and oppressed nations including their reactionary Islamic governments under attack by U.$. imperialism.

The survey asked the question how confident countries are in the international leadership of George W. Bush. One could guess that Amerikans are most confident in Bush, since Amerikans voted him in in 2004. That is not true.

One might guess I$rael, but MIM has shown that only the minority of Amerikan Jews supports Bush, less than the percentage of Amerikan fundamentalist Christians or even whites as a whole. There was a 2003 survey by Kanadians that is now out-of-date. At a time when Amerikans had 70% confidence in Bush, I$raeli$ had only 63%.(2) The other imperialist countries were all under 50% support for Bush already by 2003.

So one would be wrong to guess I$rael surpassed Amerikans in love of Bush. One might think, "then it must be the British or Au$tralians and it must be close to what Amerikans think." Again, it is wrong.

Now that 50% of Amerikans report confidence in Bush's international leadership, 56% of Indians report the same--the top for all countries surveyed.

This is further vindication of the themes MIM has developed in the last two years against incorrect trends in the international communist movement. The rate for India is so high because Bush has consistently attacked Islamic nations since 2001 and the exploited of India wrongly prioritize attacking Islam above attacking Bush--false consciousness. While there is only a very small Islamic population inside U.$. borders, India itself has a large Islamic population and a history of division with Pakistan, an Islamic oppressed nation.

The rulers in Russia and China have the view that keeping Uncle $am busy with Islam is good for them. It should be a different matter when it comes to communist movements.

Too many supposed communists have looked on indifferently or have given conniving aid to Western Liberal attacks on Islamic culture as if there really is a culture war and not a class war. These Liberals and their pseudo-communist sycophants have helped Bush divide the international proletariat. We can now say they have already succeeded. Bush has made real headway in India.

Recently Nepal has been in the news, but the long-run health of the international communist movement hinges on India above all else. It is going to be a while before the Chinese and Russian peoples shake off the influence of their revisionists, but India has fresh legs for revolution. Revolution in India will influence China and Russia and could easily become a turning point in history. Those who take a lax view of u.$. imperialism, because Iran has the veil or because Palestinians need charity and some want to kow-tow to imperialism to get it or because Afghanistan does not allow bikinis in public--these are profound enemies of the international communist movement.

Another poll discussed by Voice of America that MIM has validated from its own research shows that Islamic wimmin do not view Western wimmin as liberated. To quote Voice of America on this:

"Muslim women have a perception of women in the western societies as free, but surrounded by and degraded by things like promiscuity and pornography. 'While American and western women enjoy legal gender equality, there is a certain cultural degradation of women that they don't favor. So, there are certain things that are admired in the west, but other aspects that are not, that they don't want. This perception is likely taken from Hollywood films, which are, of course, consumed readily in the Muslim world,' she said."

This is the achievement of the imperialists--to divide also Western wimmin and Islamic country wimmin. Fortunately, this division we can accept, because the Islamic wimmin are right and the stupid Western Liberals are wrong. What we cannot accept is that Hindu wimmin fight Islamic wimmin in India. This is currently an Achilles Heel for the international communist movement and also the international wimmin's movement, which achieves its own unity in tandem with the proletarian movement.

The world does not always work in a straight-line national fashion. What Bush does may actually have more impact in Indian public opinion than Amerikan public opinion. That is just another reason we cannot take lightly the fakes and lackeys of Uncle $am polluting our communist movement.

George Bush has done more to unite the international proletariat than any single communist party. Yet he has also had some success exactly where we communists need ours. On June 22nd, Vice-President Cheney re-emphasized the India link. According to the Financial Times:

"The US administration set out its strongest defence of the civilian nuclear assistance agreement with India, when Dick Cheney, vice-president, called it 'one of the most important strategic foreign policy initiatives of our government.'"(3)

The United $tates is the largest single exploiter of Third World people. We call on genuine communists to push aside the lackeys and fake leaders and make sure that their leaders are not aiding or conniving with anti-Islamic culture warriors dividing the international proletariat. If our leaders do not target U.$. imperialism as the principal enemy and they do not specifically undertake a campaign against anti-Islamic chauvinism at this time when the culture warriors are running amok, then they are not deflecting the tactics of the exploiters to divide the exploited. Campaigns to isolate Iran on International Wimmin's Day or attack Iran's nuclear energy program are examples of completely counterrevolutionary activity that must be actively denounced in the interests of international proletarian unity.

Notes:
1. http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/252.pdf
2. http://www.cbc.ca/news/america/poll.html
3. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2f71b550-0234-11db-a141-0000779e2340.html