On the 21^st of February 1848, Karl Marx published the “Communist Manifesto”. Marx did not simply “create” communism, he evolved a prevalent ideology that Thomas Moore deliberated in “Utopia” which was issued in 1516. It highlighted the notion of common ownership, which to its utilization, the founding dogma contemporaneous in the deep curtails of Communism. You see, Marx simply adopted the main implications in Utopia and viewed it from a different perspective, a class-conflict lens. In fundamental politics and philosophy, schools of thought are viewed as lenses, glasses that color an individual’s reality based on one’s beliefs and understanding relating to the ideology of said lens. Marx was not just known as the father of Socialism, he was the founding father of all conflict-ideology. I’m talking Feminism, Anarchism, Communism and many more, the man himself originated the formula that thinkers would adopt to develop their theories and schools of thought.

Being the avant-garde thinker that he was, Marx instituted a set of principles, said principles constitute the validity of a communist society. These include:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all immigrants and rebels.
5. Equal liability of all to labor and establishment of industrial armies (especially for agriculture).
6. The gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country.
7. Free education for all children in public schools and abolition of children’s factory labor.
8. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state.
9. The state would control communication and transportation.
10. The state factories and instruments of production would cultivate wastelands and improve the soil.

China is known for its extreme dedication to the ideology we now brand “Communism”, similar to its faltered predecessor, the Soviet Union. You see, the Soviet Union was the perfect example of a communist regime but so was it’s perfect fall. The Union became an chief example of why communism simply does not work. On paper, it seemed adequately organised and potentially efficient. Let’s not get into too much detail about why the Soviet Union fell, be it the cold war or an array of multiple reasons.

The Chinese giant adopts a hybrid system of governance, that utilizes elements of pure Communism such as, state control over communication and transportation but they also seem to rely on a market-heavy form of consumerism which is inherently capitalistic. This quasi-capitalistic semi-communist system exists in contrast to the very rich principles of socialism.

I think everyone reading this piece has in some way or form been expecting to read about the humanitarian calamity that is the arbitrary detention of Uighur Muslim. It’s a rather sinister topic to discuss since it reflects on our pride as Muslims. You see, us Muslims have experienced hardship and hate ever since the West decided to turn the world against us for oil gain. If you’ve read my previous post on the United States (Greatest country in the world?), I discuss this briefly. You read leaked documents about the ghastly and sordid acts that Uighurs have to go through on a daily basis, the videos of children younger than 10 years old being beaten by a mob while he cries and pleads to be saved and the interviews of abused men and women barely able to speak about their experiences in the concentration camps.

It really makes you wonder, why doesn’t anyone bat an eye? Where is the “UN” (the biggest joke on the planet)? Is a Muslim life really that worthless? That’s the problem with being informed in such a field, there are never answers, only more questions. You can’t simply live maintaining a false hope that is reliant of your own sense of private security. China’s crime is the first of its kind, it is unprecedented. We live in a world where the value of someone’s life is subjective to one’s racism or odium towards their kind.