Chinese Politburo to Yale Daily News: Print Everything Great Leader Xiaochen Su Writes, No Matter How Batshit Insane It Is
Last time we wrote about our favorite this-guy-has-got-to-be-joking-but-he’s-totally-not, the Great Leader/Ivy League columnist Xiaochen Su was spewing out weird racist garbage all over the pages of the YDN. After a month-long absence to preside over the Chinese Communist Party’s Annual Congress, the Great Leader/columnist makes a triumphant return in today’s 
YDN.
In a piece entitled “Socialism in U.S. can cure capitalism’s woes,” Great Leader Su writes about socialism, but not in the warm-hearted and well-meaning way of confused New Leftists who like to starve themselves. No, Su is cold, clinical, Chinese:
The historical trend shows that the creation of a new socialism is necessary to prevent the reoccurrence of communist-inspired violence and instability that result in more poverty.”
So far, so good. Maybe Great Leader Xiaochen Su is just another Marxist-Leninist theoretician, right?
With desperation building up within the impoverished, only a brilliant leader – such as China had found in Mao Zedong – is needed to transform them into a formidable anti-government force.”
This is definitely the oligarchy-with-an-inhuman face of the Chinese Politburo. And then the clincher:
The government’s duty ends at pointing the people in the right direction; it is the responsibility of each individual to take that path and work hard.”
Whatever happened to “from each according to his capacity,” Great Leader? Oh, right: CHINA.
After the jump: the article in full. And you don’t even have look for it in your Daily Worker!
The 20th century witnessed the great struggle between capitalism and communism. While the capitalists held on to the wealthy states of Western Europe and North America, there were tendencies toward communism in the majority of the world, in which widespread poverty made the egalitarian beliefs widely accepted. In today’s post-communist world, many nations have accepted socialism – defined as a set of economic policies preached by the communists – without the same absolute power structure and state control that existed in all former communist regimes. The historical trend shows that the creation of a new socialism is necessary to prevent the reoccurrence of communist-inspired violence and instability that result in more poverty.
The lack of equal opportunity for all people is the fundamental reason for communist revolution throughout the developing world in the last century. In all such states, the people had no opportunity for advancement in the economic hierarchy, thereby placing them in a situation where they had nothing to lose in destroying the government already in place. The phenomenon is best exemplified by the Communist Revolution of China, which ended in 1949. Under the capitalist Nationalist government that was in place, the urban elite prospered with foreign investment while securing their higher social status with the monopoly of the large businesses and the minimal higher education system. However, the peasantry was heavily taxed to finance the burden of the continued war with Japan while corrupt officials and large rural landowners allowed little benefits to trickle down to the majority rural population at the time.
With no source for education, the poor were destined to remain poor as they farmed their meager land or faced heavy exploitation as migrant workers in the cities. With desperation building up within the impoverished, only a brilliant leader – such as China had found in Mao Zedong – is needed to transform them into a formidable anti-government force. China was not an isolated case; Lenin in Czarist Russia, Ho Chi Minh in French-controlled Vietnam and Castro in Batista’s Cuba all saw the same inequalities between urban elites and the rural majority. Ironically, the ensuing fights to end such inequality only led to the destruction of infrastructure and outflow of capital with the exile of urban elites and foreign companies, precipitating in greater poverty and extermination of any opportunities to gain economic wealth. The lack of socialist policies in many capitalist countries is the root cause for the instability and poverty brought on by communist-inspired violence.
The threat of violence due to inequality is very much alive in the world of today, especially among the developing countries, exemplified by such groups as Maoist guerrillas in Nepal and rioting Algerian youth in the major cities of France. The only effective way to prevent such instability and violence is to implement a specific set of new socialist policies for the legal residents of the country.
For one, the quality of required education received by all children must be equalized. Today, the difference between the elite private schools and urban public schools in America has never been greater. To alleviate the situation, the government needs to either nationalize all private schools and fund them equally among each other or privatize all public schools and financially assist poorer students.
Second, the joblessness of able-bodied workers must be changed through government-funded job-training programs and job placements. Cutting social welfare payments for many unemployed able-bodied persons would provide funding for these programs. The combination of two policies can effectively prevent the unemployment of many who would otherwise contribute to the country’s economy.
Lastly, all residency requirements for employment should be abolished. Economic flexibility can greatly reduce unemployment in some areas by filling labor shortages in other areas. Eventually, government spending on social welfare, education subsidy and job training programs will decrease significantly with the newly found financial independence of many previously unemployed and their posterity. Guaranteeing equal opportunities, the state can effectively lower unemployment, preventing the sense of economic desperation of the impoverished in order to generate stability and productivity.
Since the rise of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the last century, the word “socialism” has always suggested the subsequent support of communist policies. However, socialism need not be represented by financial subsidy to the jobless or free procurement of such services as medical care and education that countries such as Sweden have interpreted it to be. It is the role of the government to guarantee a job for all who can and wishes to work, thus preventing wealth concentration in the hands of the few and the abandonment of the poor generation after generation.
On the other hand, it should be realized that new socialist policies are not a guarantor of national income. The government’s duty ends at pointing the people in the right direction; it is the responsibility of each individual to take that path and work hard.
Xiaochen Su is a sophomore in Davenport College.
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November 12th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
wow…this is just embarrassing. first off, this kid spews communist propaganda (how many people died during the great leap forward?). but it is even worse that the YDN actually published this shit. i fully support freedom of speech, but it is not sound journalism to publish crap just to create controversy. if xioachen had a well developed argument, perhaps i would not be so furious. so the lesson from all of this is that the ydn sucks…
November 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
The best thing about this is that we get 20% more of this crap. The YDN recently decided that the best way to “solve the speech crisis at Yale” exemplified by the graffiti incidents, etc. was to expand the Friday opinion section to 2 pages instead of 1. Which means MORE XIAOCHEN FOR EVERYONE!
November 12th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
technically that’s 100% more
November 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
50 percent more? fuck i always hated percentages.
maybe 200% more?
November 12th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Can we just deport this idiot? No doubt he’s a communist spy.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/10/fbi.espionage/index.html
November 12th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I want to see the YDN ever publish a “fascism will solve America’s problems” piece.
November 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Enlightened despotism in support of a totally capitalist system is clearly the only way to go. I think I’ll start my rebuttal editorial right now.
PS we all know the REAL media never publishes/says things just to be controversial/get people’s attention.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Since when did we become so toolish and self-righteous so as to think only mainstream ideas (and ideas close to it) don’t count as “garbage?” talk about tyranny of the majority – these IvyGate forums are becoming embarassing. (p.s. y10 — YDN ran a piece on why America should be more of a police state last week.)
November 12th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
It isn’t “toolish” to understand that communism caused the deaths of 90 million people and that by allowing communist drivel to be published only reinforces the fact that the ydn is a piece of crap.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Well said. y08, kill your ideas, and go read a history book.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
“No, Su is cold, clinical, Chinese”
I realize you’re joking, but that’s just as racist as what he said…
November 12th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
He gonna su yo ass for racism.
November 12th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Mao Zedong as a “brilliant” leader? Has this kid ever heard of the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution?
November 12th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I don’t want to take this forum too seriously, but as an econ. major and somebody who knows something about China, I want to say that this guy is off his rocker.
If he were to take a look at his beloved China and the US, he might claim that they share similar Gini coefficients. However, whereas the United States never hears of popular and violent uprisings in response to unemployment, even the many reports coming out of China grossly misrepresent the level of discontent among the populace, especially in the western provinces. Why? Because even under China’s communist, “egalitarian” system, a poor farmer in China will always be a poor farmer, and government systems won’t be able to bail him out. The income gap in China has no possibility of being ameliorated any time in the near future.
As for job-training, it is neither the responsibility nor right of the national government to undertake job-training or placement programs, and fiscal unemployment adjustment policies create inflation much more than they help workers.
I will support his point about free capital flows, though. Too bad China instituted a hukou system that they’ve only recently taken significant action to repeal.
Alright, enough of the rant. Screw Yale.
November 12th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
college!
November 12th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
According to Title II, Chapter 2, Act 212 of the Immigration & Nationality Act:
Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.
One way out of this is if the person is deemed to have been coerced to become a member. Seeing how this kid loves the commies, someone should report him to immigration officials & kick his commie ass out.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Try reading through it with a chinese accent… I wonder if he’s as good at stand-up?
November 12th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Is this the same Xiaochen Su? This isn’t nearly as radical as b4, but he lost all street cred after the xenophobic piece last wekk.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Is this the same Xiaochen Su? This isn’t nearly as radical as b4, but he lost all street cred after the xenophobic piece last month.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Is this the same Xiaochen Su? This isn’t nearly as radical as b4, but he lost all street cred after the xenophobic piece last month.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
@ y08: I thought the police state piece was a joke?
November 13th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
You seem to prefer the petri dish procreating pinnochio plutocratic fascist naziesque orwellian roveianlly infanticidal caligulesque mengelesque smiley faced sadistic self medicating sociopathic infantile lemming paramecium shit with grandiose desires of beastiality bank welfare state model of nationalism. The subprime meltdown is such a massive indicator of so much. The E.C.B. was forced to dump $300 Billion into the market to prop up the DOW, the media refuses to discuss the cummulative total of losses thus far but it’s easy to put them at at least half a Trillion minimum. The industry was maxed out at $ 200 Billion per year before the experimental anomalic low borrowing rates over the last few years. The sub prime loans, an entire industry that sprang up because minorities can’t secure the same access to loans as white’s who earn the same, pushed to $ 1.7 Trillion dollars per year and spread through S.I.V.’s, collateralized debt obligations and commercial paper after years of ” buy with no money down and flip it infomercials “. You suckered in everybody and wove the mess so deeply the fed was forced to bail out the biggest baddest of the banks, again. Interesting Socialism isn’t it.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Would someone please get Xiaochen a hot girlfriend who (1) only wants him for his future earning potential, and (2) removes extremist words from his vocabulary: (only, must, never, always, …)? This dude NEEDS sexual healing.
“It is the role of the government to guarantee a job for all who can and wishes [sic] to work, thus preventing wealth concentration in the hands of the few and the abandonment of the poor generation after generation.” No. That is not why governments arose historically nor is it a sensible role. Hazlitt and Carnegie must be spinning in their graves.
November 14th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Guys, what he’s saying is rough around the edges, but give him a fucking break. The substantive points of his argument are actually pretty pragmatic, and not at all communist. The guy obviously needs to improve his rhetoric, but it’s closed-minded xenophobes like you who bear the real shame here.
Cheers!
November 15th, 2007 at 12:52 am
@y07: Xenophobia? Maybe two posts are racist; a few mention what the law is (not should be, is). I don’t see a lot of xenophobia in the posts; but, I do see a lot of anti-communism. I’m sure you didn’t mean to confuse the two.
If you like his ideas, you are welcome to try living under communism. But none of the posters deriding communism and central planning should feel one whit of shame. And nobody owes him a break; his columns are published material.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
why do you swear on the internet it is not polite or mature so everyone who swears I hope you read this comment #***##$*#$$#**