The author of the book is introduced as a “business professor” at the University of California–Irvine. Chapter 5 of his book (p. 87) begins with Lenin.

In the United States, to call anyone a Marxist, a Leninist, or even a socialist, a leftist, a liberal, is often the same as to call him or her a criminal. But to propound Lenin’s views is “correct.” This is how “business professor” Peter Navarro begins Ch. 5 of his book:

In 1916, Vladimir Lenin, a forefather of Chinese Communism, described imperialism as the “highest form of capitalism.”

The chapter is entitled “The ‘New Imperialist’ Wars and Weapons of Mass [!] Construction.”

While reading this and the next page, the reader is supposed to forget that Lenin meant by “imperialism” the “highest form of capitalism” in the Western countries, engaged in 1916 in a world war, which he called “imperialist.” According to Lenin, “capitalism” (private enterprise) inevitably leads to “imperialism,” including “imperialist wars.” Its “weapons of mass production” are actually its “weapons of mass destruction.” The only way to avoid this calamity is to eliminate “capitalism” and establish the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” as was done in Russia in 1917, and in China in 1949. In 1922, the dictator Lenin permitted private enterprise, controlled by his dictatorship, and a similar permission was later granted in China.

It is only on the next page (p. 89) that we read: “At the root of China’s new imperialism is an economic appetite for resources and raw materials that is voracious.”

So, speaking of imperialism, Lenin meant, according to Navarro, not only the United States and Europe in 1916, but also today’s China, in which Marx, Lenin, and Mao are its three apostles, and its “party” at the head of its dictatorship is called “Communist.” The historical guilt of China is to permit private enterprise controlled by the dictatorship, as Lenin had done in Russia in 1922. That permitted private enterprise, controlled by the dictatorship, is imperialism leading to (“new imperialist”) wars. Navarro injects the word “wars” into whatever China’s private enterprise does. Thus, the section of his book that begins on p. 83 is entitled: “The China Wars for Minerals and Raw Materials.” Since 1949, 22,000 large dams have been built in China? The title (p. 129): “The Damnable Dam Wars. . . .” The title of Chapter 8 on p. 143 begins, “The Bread and Water Wars. . . .” And title of Chapter 9 (p. 157) is: “China’s Wars from Within—The Dragon Comes Apart at the Seams.”

Lenin was not interested in movements for freedom, constitutionalism, legal justice. The only movements worth his attention were the movements of the poor (proletarians) against the rich (bourgeoisie) to establish the “dictatorship of the proletariat” (that is, of Lenin). Navarro fills pp. 158-160 with movements of the poor against the rich. The title of the next section (pp. 180-183) begins: “The Marxian Struggle. . . .” So even the “Marxian struggle” is there. But the Tiananmen Square movement is not mentioned. Why? A replica of the Statue of Liberty was installed in the Square. So the protesters had Western constitutional goals. To Lenin (and hence to Navarro), protests should only be those of the poor against the rich. Marx—yes! But no Statue of Liberty, please!

The last chapter of the 261-page book, Ch. 11, is entitled: “How to Fight—and Win!—The Coming China Wars.” On p. 212, Navarro explains that his book is devoted not to wars in the military sense, “with a real possibility of exchange of nuclear weapons,” but to “wars” in the economic sense. Obviously, the “nuclear weapons” of 1945 are the latest and most dangerous weapons Navarro has heard of. Now, how to fight and win those “China [economic] wars” his book describes?

According to Navarro’s book, I see only one way. First of all, all permitted private enterprise, no matter how tightly controlled by China’s dictatorship, should be forbidden as “imperialism” with its (economic) “wars.” The dictatorship of China must transfer its economic leadership to the University of California–Irvine, and above all, to its “business professor” Peter Navarro. They will show China how to avoid all those economic “wars,” and in this way, they will fight and win them.

There is only one difficulty. From Navarro’s explanation of the purpose of his book (p. 212) it is clear that he has not heard of post-nuclear super weapons. So, the solution is simple. The dictatorship of China forbids as “imperialism” all private enterprise, no matter how tightly controlled by China’s dictatorship. Then the latter transfers its economic leadership to Peter Navarro and the University of California–Irvine to enable them to show how to fight and win all those economic “wars.”

But what if the dictatorship of China retains under its secret leadership just the secret development of post-nuclear super weapons, of which “Business Professor” Navarro seems to have never heard. Then on D-Day, these post-nuclear super weapons will turn the United States, including the University of California–Irvine, to dust. This will be a war that will not be fought and won by Peter Navarro because this will be a war in the military, not economic, sense (that is, not one of the “China wars”).

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