> "Nathan Newman writes: > > Crying "redbaiting" is just a form of mccarthyism within the left, an > attempt to shut people up when they raise criticism of policies. Michael > has no power to take jobs away from Workers World members or throw them in > jail-- he is criticizing their support for dictators and thugs around the > world. > > You may find the Soviet suppression of Hungarians in 1968, the shooting of > Czechs in the streets of 1968, and the murder of students in Beijing in 1989 > to be dandy service to the revolution, but Michael has the perfect right > (and I support him) in arguing that those in the WWP who applaud the murder > of other leftists should not be considered comrades.
There cannot be comradeship with the anticommunists in left disguise. They must be exposed as the most dangerous agents of Western imperialism and ostricized from the public realm of communist discussion. We are dealing here with the enormously important and dangerous political phenomenon: modern social-imperialism. We translated recently a chapter on "left anticommunism" from Michael Parenti's book, which was like an eye-opener for our readers. But this is only a tip of the iceberg. Since Lenin's time social-imperialism has grown tremendously and now includes a whole new formation - the millions of "NGOs" directly funded by capitalists and imperialist governments. Only in Russia we have 75, 000 active NGOs funded by them (240 000 registered). Where do they get the money? By plundering our country. First they plunder it, then they spend a part of the loot to buy their local puppets.Millions of Western petti-bourgeois intellectuals, not a few of whom are former Marxists and radicals, have been employed by this Juggernaut of social-imperialism. The political ancestors of a Pugliesie or a Newman cheered up the tortures and murders of Hungarian communist workers and antifascist by the fascist scum, with the US Embassy and the Vatican behind them. I am proud that one of my relatives commanded a tank brigade in 1956 and helped these workers to restore their state. I remember the August of 1968. I was a teenager then, already corrupted by the gentle anticommunist propaganda of the radio "voices". I became ashamed of my country. Such nice people on the streets of Prague, I thought, the champions of "freedom", what our tanks are doing over there?! Eventually I realized what they were doing (and sometimes dying in those tanks) in Prague that August, but too late. By that time the "Prague" had happened to Moscow and the genocide of my people (the Soviet people!) began. And there were no more tanks to stop it. I am thankful to Brezhnev and that last ineffectual bunch of Soviet bureaucrats who went through Stalingrad and Kursk and knew what *real* life and death are about for saving that last generation of the Soviet youth from the Catastrophe. Without those tanks in 1968 the life of my generation could have been broken already by the end of the 1970s. Instead of becoming physicians and teachers, our girls would have been serving guests in Israeli and Japanese bordellos or babysitting for a WASP couple in Washington and washing dishes in a Brooklin restaurant. Half of my university fiends are already dead before reaching their 50s, but at least they had a worthy life in their 20s. Thanks to the silly old bureaucrats in the Kremlin and the Soviet tanks in Prague in 1968. As to the 1989 in Beijing, every honest person who knows what happened to the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Russia after 1989 must shudder in horror at the thought what would have happened to the peoples of China had the Communist Party retreated and the imperialists had their day in Beijing back then. Pugliese et al. is the same crowd that cheered up NATO bombers over Belgrad and joined their imperialists in blackmailing Russia to withdraw from the Caucases. In Russia they work hand in glove with imperialist "foundations" to buy and corrupt whatever honest is left in our intelligentsia and to trasform them into compradors. Above all, these social-chauvinists love to chastise left activists from oppressed countries for being "nationalists. " These people are not worthy of the dust from the shoes of the last WWP activist. And remember my words: the more successful WWP and similar US organizations will become in the current antiimperialist mobilization the more vicious and organized will be the attacks against them from these left anticommunist types. Down with this scum! Expose them everywhere loudly and openly! Build a barricade between them and yourself. There will be no chance even for a partial victory without it. Vadim Stolz editor www.left.ru _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
