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This bulldog nationalism and Dover Cliffs insularity interact with a suspicion that the Common Market is Catholic and capitalist and would corrupt Protestant and socialist Britain. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, British Journalist Paul Johnson divided Britons into insularists (King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Anthony Eden) and Continentalists (Thomas a Becket. Charles I, Harold Macmillan). "Britain has always chosen the adventure of sovereignty in preference to the presumed security of a Continental system," wrote Johnson. "And history shows that in the end she has always chosen rightly...
Considerably less charmed were the Americans who faced him nine years later across the table at the Korean truce talks in Panmunjom, where Huang led the Chinese delegation. He refused to speak English, would not shake hands with the American delegates and interminably denounced them as "capitalist crooks, rapists, thieves, robbers of widows." At one session, his marathon attacks became so insulting that Arthur Dean, chief American negotiator, gathered up his papers and stalked out of the conference room. One American participant recalls: "Huang Hua was quite stunned. He cried 'Come back!' That was the only time...
These years of revolutionary activity, 1952 to 1959, culminating in the is land's liberation, clearly demonstrated the pathetic plight of Russia's influence in third world revolutions. In 1956 Khrushchev initiated the new Russian policy of peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries, especially America, and encouragement of the peaceful transfer to socialism in non-communist countries. Insurrection activities were out of the question for Russia's allies particularly in 1959 during the friendly Camp David phase of Russo-American relations. As a result, the PSP stayed in the background, viewing dimly Castro's armed uprising...
Trotsky's concept of "permanent revolution" challenged capitalist hegemony in Third World countries. It stressed the possibility of by passing the bourgeois economic stage moving directly from feudalism to socialism. Belated bourgeois revolutions could be directly challenged instead of promoted by communist revolutionaries...
...China this capitalist drive for power was undermined by foreign imperialism which destroyed the old Confucian system and worked to inhibit the growth of an independent bourgeois class. Only the CCP, the strongest domestic force, could unify the country. Across the Sea, Japan stood as a classic counter-example. How could Japan achieve isolation and peacefully transform to an industrial power? Horowitz only circles this basic question. He mentions the belated bourgeois development in Germany and Japan in his discussion of fascism, yet he ignores the unsuccessful bourgeois revolutions in Russia and China...