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<<<<He'd be saying that that government gave women freedom, educated the children, was trying to bring Afghanistan out of the 7th century.>>>> Dear Heather, the Afghan Islamist reenactment of the 7th century is something to oppose, but, imposing western values, for the sake of bringing a country out of the 7th century, is not *necessarily* a good thing. David O Q On 12 Jan 02, at 0:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > Richard, > They (before-Gorbachev leaders in the USSR) were for socialism. Can you > imagine them all taking money today from the bourgeiosie and saying nothing > about the death of socialism in the USSR? I guess I can't. > > I am passionately on the side of the working class around the world. Those > who oppose it or who lend themselves to defending capitalism are the enemies > of the children of the world, they are the enemies of freedom and dignity. > > I cannot imagine anyone who I respect working consciously for the foundations > and think tanks taking blood money to live and "work," as Michial Gorbachev > does. He is a class enemy. If he were not, he'd be criticising everything; > poverty, the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, the World Bank, the IMF, WTO. > > He's be organizing Russians to take back their nation by force of arms from > the felons who are destroying it. He's be in the streets of Moscow and (I > hate this name) St. Petersberg (Leningrad, for goodness sake, LENINGRAD!!), > with the workers, on strike, looting the food stores, defying authorities. > Organizing, fighting, agitating. > > He'd be telling the world that the USSR came to the aid of the Marxist > government in Afghanistan because the US and Pakistan was supporting the > feudal brutal Mujahadeen. He'd be saying that that government gave women > freedom, educated the children, was trying to bring Afghanistan out of the > 7th century. And the US, in its most expensive CIA contra war EVER destroyed > it.supporting the Taliban and the Northern alliance and the heroin trade. > Gorbachev would talk truth. Silence. he is silent. > > I don't know who you are, Richard, but you must remember the part in John > Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World in which a revolutionary soldier stopped > a bourgeois group from promenading across a bridge and walking past the > building that housed the Bolshevik government. When they asked to pass, he > refused them, saying that either you were with the proleatiat or the > bourgeoisie, and the only people who could pass were with the proletariat. > > Or do you know the US labor song, Which Side Are you On? > > That is what this is about. This isn't about whether you think it was nice to > have Glastnost or Peristroika, it is about how these policies helped lead to > the destruction of the USSR and led to the wholesale death of the Soviet > people. And the end of revoulionary movements everywhere. > > This temporary cessation of the foward movement of the working class will > have cost several hundred million lives around the globe by the time the > workers of the world finally organize revolution. > > Under socialism ,one can't afford to have well-intentioned policies. One must > fight agaisnt bourgeois tendencies and resist the imperialists who are always > going to try to annihilate socialism. > > That cretin Fukayama talked about an end to histroy. The Enlightenment was > stopped. Capitalism won, all was ducky for the rich. It was not; but in the > 1980s and 1990s capitalism spread around the world like a terrible scourge > and the revolutionary immune system that was found WHILE THE USSR WAS STILL > EXTANT was destroyed. > > Now that the capitalist system is globally tanking, now that the > overproduction in every nation is choking the economies, now that the only > real profits can be found in war, now the working class will be waking up. In > Argentina, the left has put aside their differences and is talking and > working together. In the US, young people are joining together to fight for > civil liberties and agaisnt war. These are small, but indicative > developments. > > Are you familiar with the Turner Thesis? This is the final appication of it. > The US has rub out of frontiers, the capitalists can't invest many more > places, the system has really outlived its usefulness, and Gorbachev isn't > on the same page as those who know this. He worries about pollution. That's > nice. So does the Sierra Club and the Boyscouts, but they aren't on the side > of the working class, and neither does that "great leader" you admire. > Heather > > > > I will stop. > > > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
