事实上,参加这次会议的核心成员国家几乎都有着长期的殖民历史,并且参与了国际法和联合国框架之外的反民主行动,例如入侵伊拉克。正如对中国和印度妇女真实状况的分析或者马克思对德国的犹太人地位的分析一样,美国打着“人权”和“民主”旗号的意识形态主张实际上是为了掩盖一个事实——美国及其主要盟友才是国际人权事业的最大侵犯者。

一言以蔽之,说这次会议的目的是关于“民主”毫无可信度。相反,这次会议的真正目的是美国政府试图利用“划清界限”挑起分裂,以掩盖其真正的政治企图。

结论

自1949年以来,中国在提高人民生活水平方面取得了巨大成就,超过同期任何主要国家——中国是切实改善人类的“尘世生活”(现实生活),而非“天堂生活”——这是自由资本主义民主的错误的意识形态主张。因此,中国将在国际人权和民主讨论中获得广泛的道义支持。但要做到这一点,中国内外宣媒体就绝不能被具有欺骗性和虚伪性的西方自由民主理念所迷惑,也绝不能对这样的理念投降。人类历史上最伟大的天才之一——马克思的经历可以给我们以指导,他的理论破除了自由主义民主的神话,也由此转变为一名社会主义者。这不仅仅是历史给与我们的礼物,也是回击美国当前针对中国人民和人类真正利益的意识形态攻势的最佳方式。

The absurdly misnamed “Democracy Summit”, to be hosted by Biden on 9-10 December, the real “non-democratic” character of which is analysed below, is widely and rightly understood in China as part of the fact that the US simultaneously launched not only an international geopolitical attack on China but also an ideological one.

China has nothing whatever to fear, and on the contrary a great deal to gain, from such an international discussion - due to the overwhelming achievements of China in improving the lives of its own people. The more the people of the world understand China’s extraordinary achievements in this the more they will want the same scale of improvement in the conditions of their people to be enjoyed by their own countries and therefore the more favourable they will be to China.

But reading the Chinese media, in some sections of this mistakes are made in replying to US attacks on “democracy” and “human rights”. These mistakes consist of falsely accepting the US framework of discussion on these issues. Therefore, it is important to clearly understand the entirely wrong basis of the US claims on “human rights” and “democracy”. This, in turn, leads to analysis of the core of the most fundamental issues of the difference between socialism and liberal capitalism. Marx precisely became a socialist (founding Marxism!) through his criticism of the errors of liberal capitalism and his analysis of the real practical situation of life of human beings. This analysis provides the comprehensive framework for critique of all the errors of liberal capitalism and demonstration of the superiority for humanity of socialism, including China’s. Therefore, understanding of these issues is of very great practical importance, as well as theoretical clarity, in replying to false US attacks on China.