“民主峰会”的闹剧

综上所述，我们可以得出结论：资本主义国家的自由民主理念具有欺骗性和虚伪性。当然，同样的分析适用于当下的国际问题——清晰地展现出拜登将于12月9日至10日召开的“民主峰会”是多么的荒唐虚伪和名不符实。这恰恰是由地球上最反民主的国家主导的一场会议。

无数事实表明，美国政府在国际社会有着系统性地侵犯民主的记录。没有其他国家在入侵其他国家、支持反民主的政变和其他形式的侵略他国等方面可与美国相提并论。仅入侵伊拉克、空袭利比亚，发动针对阿连德政权的政变，无视联合国几乎一致的投票、对古巴实施长达数十年的经济封锁这些例子就足以证明，美国声称其政策以民主为准则是一场彻底的欺骗。

这些例子表明，美国政府支持哪些国家？唯一依据是谁听命于美国，美国就支持谁！包括那些没有任何哪怕是形式民主的国家，比如沙特。美国侵犯哪些国家？那些维护其国家利益而反对美国的国家！无论该政府实行什么样的政治制度。因此，即便是完全认同（错误的）西方自由民主理念的国家也被排除在峰会之外，比如玻利维亚和尼加拉瓜。

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.

The following article therefore deals both with key practical examples of the real bases of human rights and democracy and relates them to Marx’s epoch-making analysis – which provides the foundation for all real examination of the issues of human rights and democracy. It is an expanded version of a speech made on these issues to a conference organised by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 2 December.

This article therefore deals with:

· What are the real differences regarding human rights and democracy between the US and China?

· Why China’s position on human rights and democracy, in the real life of real human beings, is far superior to the US?

· How Marx analysed the fundamental issues on these questions - and why his framework could be expanded from his own first analysis to all the most important issues of humanity’s life?

· What is the real character of the US pseudo “summit on democracy”?