| In
fact the communists of the Third World became more opposed to their
own native religions than to the Christianity that the original
Marxists were so against because native beliefs could be a greater
challenge to their own coming to power. Not surprisingly Marxism in
India has come to recognize Hinduism, its country's own
traditional culture as its main enemy, not capitalism or
Christianity. This only reveals how inherently antagonistic
communism inherently is to non-Western belief systems. It is only
the logical outcome of the Western cultural bias inherent in the
communist ideology.
In short, the non-European communists
incarnated not so much an indigenous uprising against colonialism,
but rather a rejection of one form of Western cultural domination
for another. They embodied the very struggle within the Western
world not against world domination, but for which form of Western
culture would come to rule the world. Instead of defending or
excusing the British or French Empires they came to support the
Soviet or Chinese communist empires, which were even more
tyrannical. Communism itself became a new form of colonial
expansion, eliminating native traditions and further promoting
Western culture and values, though of an alternative type, Marxism,
we must remember, is a European intellectual political system. It
promotes European civilization and its materialistic values. Marx
and his followers had neither knowledge nor understanding of
Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism or other non-Western religions. |
