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Jimmy Carter Has Died
Editorial Department of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Proletariat
Editorial Board of League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Proletariat
According to the Carter Center in the United States, on December 29, 2024, local time, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter passed away, ending his sinful life. Regarding Carter's death, American imperialism spent a large amount of money, made a big fuss to commemorate, and extensively promoted the "merits" of this imperialist leader, which is not surprising. What is strange is that even the Chinese revisionists, who have always claimed to oppose U.S. "hegemony," also joined this imperialist mourning event. Even Xi Jinping, the leader of the Chinese revisionists, transformed into a filial son of Carter, talking about how "Former President Jimmy Carter was a promoter and decision-maker of China-U.S. diplomatic relations, and has made important contributions to promoting the development of China-U.S. relations and friendly exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. I deeply regret his passing." [1]
What a "deep regret"! It’s almost as if they have lost face for the Chinese people! A country claiming to be "socialist," a party claiming to "represent the Chinese people," and a "people's leader" who runs to mourn the head of the world's largest and most notorious imperialist country!
Such shameless behavior by the Chinese revisionist group puts the long-standing righteous stance of the Chinese people against U.S. imperialist occupation of our sacred territory Taiwan and resolute opposition to the Taiwan pseudo-government into question.
Such shameless behavior by the Chinese revisionist group also puts the great, glorious, and correct Chinese Communist Party, which has withstood the countercurrent of revisionism under the encirclement of world capitalism, into question.
Such shameless behavior by the Chinese revisionist group also puts the socialist China, which has persistently declared independence and self-reliance, and actively supported the world's people in opposing U.S. imperialism, into question.
Such shameless behavior by the Chinese revisionist group also disrespects the arrogant arrogance of U.S. paper tigers, and on May 20, 1970, issued the "May 20 Declaration" titled "Unite the People of the Whole World, Defeat the U.S. Invaders and All Their Running Dogs," placing Chairman Mao, the great leader of the Chinese people, the great mentor of the world proletariat, and the most red sun in our hearts, into question.
Such shameless behavior by the Chinese revisionist group also disregards the millions of black slaves who were brutally abused after being trafficked from Africa to North American plantations by American colonists for hundreds of years, the tens of millions of Native Americans slaughtered by U.S. imperialism, and the American workers and peasants suffering from brutal oppression for nearly two and a half centuries, as well as the peoples of all countries and nations around the world who have been exploited by the evil U.S. imperialist invaders for many years, placing them into question.
The kowtowing and mourning of the Chinese revisionists not only expose their own shameless and corrupt faces but also shamefully betray the Chinese people and the people of the world, insulting the reputation of the Chinese Communist Party and socialist countries!
So, what kind of person is Jimmy Carter, whom the Chinese revisionists praise so highly and even elevate to a frightening level? Let's look at Carter's evil life and see how this anti-communist, anti-people clown climbed to the throne of the U.S. president and how he strengthened the imperialist order and world position of U.S. imperialism. Only then can we thoroughly refute all the lies about Carter glorified by the Chinese revisionists.
The Opportunistic History of U.S. Imperialist Leader Carter
"People always have to die, but the meaning of death varies," Carter's life was a life of "selling out to fascists". His death is "dying for those who exploit and oppress the people", so his death is "lighter than a feather". [2]
Served in the U.S. imperialist navy, Carter
Jimmy Carter (1924—2024), born into a small bourgeois right-wing family. His father ran a grocery store and farm business, always thinking about how to get rich, deceiving customers with inferior goods and speculating, becoming a reactionary small bourgeois right-wing. He exploited workers on his peanut farm and leaned towards the bourgeoisie. Under the reactionary education of his opportunistic father, Carter developed ambitions to climb to a spiritual aristocrat above the working people from a young age. To this end, he schemed to advance, first entering Georgia Southwestern State University, then trying to transfer to the more prestigious Georgia Tech. Ultimately, Carter relied on bourgeois connections [3] to be admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and after graduation, joined the submarine force, becoming a member of the U.S. imperialist invasion army.
In 1949, at a time when the Chinese Communist-led Chinese People's Liberation Army was marching across the country with the great goal of "overthrow Chiang Kai-shek and liberate all of China" [4], the treacherous U.S. imperialism, not willing to see China unified, colluded with Chiang Kai-shek, fabricated peace talks, and attempted to continue occupying Qingdao, relying on the U.S. military stationed there to resist to the end. Carter, following the orders of U.S. imperialism, went to Qingdao as part of the submarine force to carry out anti-China, anti-communist, and anti-people imperialist invasion activities. When the U.S. was forced to withdraw its troops from Qingdao due to fears of direct conflict with the PLA, Carter desperately jumped around, doing the bidding of U.S. imperialism's "Far East policy." Because he vigorously carried out the "Far East policy," even when he was ordered to retreat without fighting and returned the submarine to the U.S., he was still rewarded with a minor official position— in 1951, Carter was appointed deputy commander of a submarine and obtained the rank of captain.
From then on, Carter, as a bourgeois military officer, made a fortune by relying on U.S. imperialism. In 1953, Carter's father died early after serving as a congressman for only a year. He hurried back to inherit the family business, managing the peanut farm. With the money, reputation, and status of a bourgeois military officer, he easily profited from speculation, establishing a capitalist farm of 3,100 acres with a total value of $1 million, based on the destruction of countless small producers' families [5].
The bourgeoisie’s insatiable greed for fame and profit led Carter to not only become a millionaire but also to aspire to be the "great leader" of the United States. He began to enter politics, running for governor of Georgia. He hypocritically praised Martin Luther King, claiming to promote black political participation and eliminate racial discrimination, but in fact, he was advocating reformist policies. His proposals, which suited the bourgeoisie’s deception of the people, gained support from the bourgeoisie. He was elected governor and was praised by bourgeois media as "the most accomplished governor." Carter's rise to fame reflected the shift in class struggle strategy of U.S. imperialism amid internal and external crises—abandoning overt class and racial oppression, replacing them with intoxicating class reconciliation and "multicultural" policies, causing the American people to abandon their fundamental interests within capitalism, indulge in trivial concessions, and ultimately be unable to organize effective resistance under continuous counterattacks by the American bourgeoisie, leading to the complete loss of all struggle gains.
When Carter became the head of U.S. imperialism
After Carter's four-year term as governor ended, the ambitious Carter immediately announced his participation in the presidential election. He repeated his old tricks, making numerous unrealistic promises to deceive the American people. The American monopoly bourgeoisie, exhausted from fighting the people, was overjoyed to see such a "kind-hearted," "approachable" "good person," and easily helped him win the 1976 U.S. presidential election with an overwhelming 297 to 240 vote margin, becoming the 39th president of the United States.
The "Promoter" of China-U.S. Diplomatic Relations?
Regarding Carter's performance during his presidency, the Chinese revisionists and U.S. imperialists fabricated many "myths" about Carter's achievements. The main reason they defend Carter is that he "promoted" China-U.S. diplomatic relations. However, from the entire process of establishing diplomatic relations, this is entirely a lie.
The earliest advocates for establishing diplomatic relations with the U.S. and promoting friendly exchanges between China and the U.S. were none other than socialist China and the Chinese Communist Party. Shortly after its founding, the Chinese Communist Party repeatedly demanded that, based on abolishing all unequal treaties imposed by foreign powers and the privileges they held in China, China should develop friendly relations with countries around the world. During the First Great Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party even used Sun Yat-sen's slogan of "United in the world to be equal with all nations" to advocate establishing diplomatic relations with all willing countries, including the U.S. When Mao Zedong responded to American journalist Edgar Snow's questions about the diplomatic policy of the Chinese Soviet government, he also said: "For friendly countries, China is willing to negotiate peace treaties based on equality and mutual benefit. For other countries, China is prepared to maintain cooperation on a broader basis." [6]
Later, during the Anti-Japanese War, Mao Zedong also pointed out in "On United Front Government": "The basic principle of the Chinese Communist Party's diplomatic policy is to thoroughly defeat Japanese invaders, maintain world peace, respect the independence and sovereignty of all countries, and promote mutual interests and friendship. Based on these foundations, establish and consolidate diplomatic relations with all countries, and resolve all issues of mutual relations, such as joint military operations, peace conferences, trade, and investment." [7]
During the Liberation War, Mao Zedong again quoted Sun Yat-sen's will, declaring the goal to "unite all nations that are equal with us in the world to fight together" [8], and said: "We are willing to establish diplomatic relations with all countries on the basis of equality." [9] The Chinese People's Revolutionary Military Committee and the People's Government also expressed their willingness to consider establishing diplomatic relations with foreign countries, on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and primarily not to support the reactionary Kuomintang regime [10].
Even though the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people have repeatedly expressed their sincere desire to establish diplomatic relations with countries including the U.S. on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, U.S. imperialism, driven by its desire for domination and hegemony, has maintained a resolute hostility towards socialist China representing the broad people's interests. The U.S. stubbornly adheres to its reactionary foreign policy of anti-China, anti-communism, and anti-people, supporting the Kuomintang regime on islands, refusing to recognize the legitimate status of socialist China, and even using its hegemonic power as a superpower to mobilize its various agents to attack socialist China internationally, repeatedly excluding socialist China from the United Nations. As a result, the process of establishing diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. has been slow for a long time.
However, the urgent desire of the peoples of both countries for friendly exchanges cannot be obstructed by any superpower. They have made relentless efforts to promote diplomatic relations. On the Chinese side, socialist China's diplomatic line is to uphold proletarian internationalism, unite all oppressed nations and peoples worldwide, and break the diplomatic blockade imposed by U.S. imperialism. China has supported the American people's righteous struggle against racial, class, and gender oppression, cleared up anti-China and anti-communist rumors spread by the American bourgeoisie among the American people, increased socialist China's prestige among the American people, and gained their friendship. The revolutionary strategy of socialist China's diplomatic line has increasingly opposed the reactionary policies of U.S. imperialism refusing to recognize socialist China and establish diplomatic relations, plunging U.S. imperialism into internal and external difficulties.
In the United States, as early as shortly after the Long March ended, American journalist Edgar Snow, as a petty bourgeois democrat, traveled thousands of miles through Kuomintang blockade zones to Yan'an, engaged in friendly exchanges with local people and the Chinese Communist Party, and later wrote the world-famous documentary "Red Star Over China," which enhanced the reputation of the Chinese Communist Party among the people of the world, especially in the United States. Subsequently, the Soviet people's friend and American progressive Anna Louise Strong also came to China during the Liberation War, interviewed Chairman Mao, and spread a positive image of the Chinese Communist Party in the U.S. American progressives like Handing, Yang Zao, and Han Chun, influenced by the victories of the Chinese Liberation War and "Red Star Over China," personally participated in socialist revolution and construction, using their experiences to refute the slanderous rumors fabricated by American imperialism against socialism, convincing the American people of the selfless internationalist spirit of socialist China and fostering friendly exchanges. When the American people launched waves of struggle against the brutal rule of American imperialism, they also demanded that American imperialism change its hostile attitude towards socialist China and establish diplomatic relations. Among them, the Black Panther Party, which praised Chairman Mao and Mao Zedong Thought, played a significant role. Ultimately, American imperialism was dragged into the quagmire by Soviet revisionism and suffered heavy blows from revolutionary peoples worldwide, forcing it to lower its arrogant head as a superpower and seek opportunities to ease relations with socialist China. In 1971, on the occasion of the "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger secretly visited China to negotiate diplomatic recognition with socialist China. In 1972, Nixon officially visited China, and after a series of consultations, the two countries jointly issued the "Sino-American Joint Communiqué." In the communiqué, American imperialism was forced to abandon all factors hindering the establishment of diplomatic relations, including no longer recognizing the legitimacy of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, recognizing socialist China as the sole legitimate government of China, and promising to withdraw all U.S. military forces and facilities from Taiwan, among others. After the release of the "Sino-American Joint Communiqué," relations between China and the U.S. eased, with Americans visiting China and socialist China sending delegations to the U.S., engaging in a series of political, economic, and cultural exchanges that strengthened friendship between the peoples of both nations. Since then, establishing diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. has become an unstoppable historical trend. The history of China-U.S. diplomatic normalization shows that the establishment of relations was an established policy during socialism in China, and all achievements are inseparable from the joint struggle of the two peoples against American imperialist anti-China, anti-communist, and anti-people reactionary foreign policies. The formal establishment of diplomatic relations was merely based on the fruits of this struggle. The true "promoters" and "decision-makers" of China-U.S. normalization could only be the peoples of both countries; revisionist Deng Xiaoping and imperialist Carter made no effort whatsoever and merely gained the reputation of "promoting" China-U.S. normalization out of thin air, which is shameless and a credit to heaven.
Carter signs an unequal treaty allowing the U.S. to continue occupying the Panama Canal with the traitorous general Torrijos
The "Good Guy" Returning the Panama Canal?
The second reason the Chinese revisionists praise Carter is that he "returned" the Panama Canal in 1977, making him a "good guy" committed to world peace and charity.
But all of this has proven to be a lie.
In 1977, U.S. President Carter signed the new version of the Panama Canal Treaty, also known as the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, claiming to "return" the Panama Canal and withdraw all U.S. military from Panama.
However, "In general words claiming freedom, abolishing freedom in the conditions" is a bourgeois trick, and the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty is no different; it is just a new bottle with old wine, and it has not changed U.S. imperialist control over the Panama Canal.
First, the treaty did not stipulate that the U.S. imperialists would immediately return the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government, but instead stipulated that before December 31, 1999, the Panama Canal would be jointly managed by U.S. and Panamanian canal authorities, and only afterwards would the management be fully transferred to the Panamanian government, effectively prolonging U.S. imperialist control over the canal for another twenty-two years.
Second, the treaty was signed simultaneously with the "Treaty on the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal." This treaty stipulated that after taking over the canal, the Panamanian government must guarantee the "permanent neutrality" of the Panama Canal, ensuring "free passage" for all ships, including military vessels. This effectively deprived the Panamanian government of sovereignty over the canal, using "neutrality" as a cover to allow the Panama Canal to remain an American inland waterway where U.S. warships could act arbitrarily without Panamanian interference.
Furthermore, the shameless U.S. imperialist bloc also passed the "DeConinck Amendment" in 1978 to maintain control over the Panama Canal. This amendment stipulated that before 2000, the Panama Canal would be jointly managed by the U.S. and Panama, and after that, its sovereignty would be "completely returned" to Panama. But even after the "complete return," the U.S. still retained the right to station troops at the canal and could take any political, economic, or military measures under the pretext of "protecting the neutrality of the canal."[12]
This amendment fully exposed the hypocrisy of the U.S. imperialist "return," and even Panamanian President Torrijos, who signed the traitorous treaty, had to admit that the "DeConinck Amendment" was essentially a version of Brezhnev's "limited sovereignty" theory in the U.S.[13]
Finally, by the end of 1999, as the "return" date approached, U.S. imperialism still refused to give up the "flesh" of the Panama Canal, staging a farcical struggle over the port management rights. This event thoroughly exposed the brutal reality of the Panama Canal still being trampled by imperialist forces. After the signing of the Panama Treaty, although the Panamanian government established relevant management agencies, it still outsourced the port operations to foreign companies, turning the canal ports into concessions controlled by imperialism. In the fight over port operation rights at both ends of the canal in late 1999, Hong Kong Hutchison Port Holdings defeated U.S. companies and won the bid. The loss of control over the Panama Canal greatly damaged U.S. interests, and the U.S. reacted furiously, claiming that Panama had been infiltrated by China and posed a serious threat to the U.S.[14]
The fierce reaction of U.S. imperialism in this incident clearly reveals its relentless desire to control the Panama Canal. It is evident that the U.S. imperialist group is not as willing to "return" the canal as it claims.
As shown above, Carter is by no means a "perfectly returning" good guy who hands back the Panama Canal. On the contrary, he, like all previous U.S. imperialist bandits, is just a hypocrite full of virtue and morality, a "clever fake" full of false righteousness. The Chinese revisionist group shamelessly praises Carter's "achievement" of "returning" the canal, which is a shameful betrayal of the people of the Third World, especially the Panamanian people.
The Second Camp David Fake
Carter orchestrates the second Camp David fake
The so-called "Camp David Accords" never brought genuine peace to the Arab region; it was merely a cunning means for Israeli fascists to cover up their larger clandestine counterrevolutionary invasion activities. Simultaneously with the signing of the treaty, the Begin government began implementing the so-called "Allon Plan," aiming to carry out even larger-scale colonial invasions on the West Bank, through establishing more "settlements" to usurp Palestinian territory, and to impose "barbed wire, electronic devices, and colonization" on the Palestinian people, exposing the true nature of the Begin government’s false peace as a cover for actual invasion. On June 7, 1981, the Begin government brazenly ordered the Israeli Air Force to bomb Iraq’s nuclear reactor, and afterward, they glorified the overtly aggressive act of invading Iraq as a so-called "self-defense operation." Ultimately, to further suppress the Fatah in Lebanon, the Begin government invaded Lebanon under the pretext of the injury of the so-called Israeli ambassador to the UK, entered Lebanon en masse, suppressed Fatah armed forces, forced Fatah to withdraw from Lebanon, and committed the horrific Beirut refugee camp massacre in Beirut, with estimated thousands of victims. The Israeli fascist invasion war against Lebanon declared the complete collapse of the "Camp David Accords" and fully exposed the crimes of U.S. imperialist leader Carter’s support for Israeli fascists’ continuous aggression in the Arab region.- https://www.mfa.gov.cn/wjdt_674879/gjldrhd_674881/202412/t20241230_11523922.shtml. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Serve the People," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
- In 1943, James Carter's friend—U.S. Congressman Stephen Pies—pleaded on his behalf, securing Jimmy Carter's admission to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, beginning his 11-year naval career. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Declaration of the Chinese People's Liberation Army," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
- In the mid-1970s, the exchange rate between the Renminbi and the U.S. dollar was approximately 2:1, so 1 million USD at that time was equivalent to 2 million RMB! ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Quoted from Edgar Snow's 'Red Star Over China'," Life·New Knowledge·Sanlian Bookstore, 1979. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "On the United Front," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Declaration of the Chinese People's Liberation Army," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Report at the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Statement by the Headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on the British Warship Atrocity," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
- Marx: "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," "Marx and Engels Collected Works," Volume 8, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1961. ↑
- U.S. Congress: "DeConinck Amendment," "Letter from the Panamanian Permanent Representative to the UN to the Secretary-General on March 28, 1978," Chinese edition, United Nations, 2016. ↑
- Torehous: Quoted from "People's Daily," April 22, 1978. ↑
- https://mooc1.chaoxing.com/mooc-ans/ztnodedetailcontroller/visitnodedetail?courseId=200669280&knowledgeId=111223788. ↑
- Meinhard Békijn early in his life joined the Zionist paramilitary groups Betar and Irgun, both of which had close ties with German fascists, and attempted to realize the arrogant ambition of establishing the so-called "Israel" in Palestine with the support of German fascists, acting as the vanguard of German fascist aggression in Arab regions. For specific evidence of Betar and Irgun colluding with German fascists, see Klaus Polkehn's paper "The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941," 1976. ↑
- Jordan's Permanent Representative to the UN: "Transcript of the 2123rd Meeting," Chinese edition, United Nations, 1979. ↑
- https://www.163.com/dy/article/JKLVVO6Q05504DPG.html. ↑
- The "monetary tightening policy" according to bourgeois vulgar economics refers to a policy of capitalist countries issuing paper money. According to bourgeois theory, "tightening" means reducing the amount of circulating paper money in the market, attempting to solve the crisis of hyperinflation. The specific measures generally include issuing more government bonds, raising the statutory reserve requirement ratio, increasing the discount rate, etc. It is essentially a means for the bourgeoisie to obtain more interest and dividends through capitalist states, strengthening the plunder of the working people. ↑
- The "monetary expansion policy" according to bourgeois vulgar economics refers to a policy of capitalist countries issuing paper money. According to bourgeois theory, "expanding" means increasing the amount of circulating paper money in the market, creating inflation, attempting to solve the crisis of "too low" inflation. The specific measures generally include lowering the statutory reserve requirement ratio, increasing government spending (especially publicly purchasing bonds), etc. It is essentially a means for the bourgeoisie to covertly lower workers' real wages and intensify the plunder of the people. ↑
- Lenin: "What is to be done?," "Collected Works of Lenin," Volume 25, First Chinese Edition, People's Publishing House, 1958. ↑
- Same as above. ↑
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jimmy-carter-who-led-the-country-during-high-unemployment-and-stagflation-is-dead-at-100-213315147.html. ↑
- The revolution resulted in the People's Party, representing the interests of the Soviet Union, and later the Khomeini Islamic theocratic group usurping the fruits of the people's revolution and seizing power in Iran. ↑
- Stalin: "Summary of the Seventh Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU," "Collected Works of Stalin," Volume 11, People's Publishing House, 1955. ↑
- https://www.mfa.gov.cn/wjdt_674879/gjldrhd_674881/202412/t20241230_11523922.shtml. ↑
- Mao Zedong: "Constitutional Government of New Democracy," "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Volume One, People's Publishing House, 1967. ↑
