----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Wendland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:09 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Will more violence provoke an extension of the US occupation?
Statement of the Political Bureau: About Recent Events ________________________________________________ This is without a doubt either a plant of disinformation designed to disgrace the very word "communist" in Iraq, or the self-delusion of a party that has absolutely no grounding in the reality of events in Iraq. The events in Iraq are the imperialist war cojoined with the civil war, and no surgical team can separate the two. The "sore wounds" the Iraqi people have endured are in no way extended, worsened by this armed rebellion for the wound will/would be inflicted irregardless. The wounds are the product of US capital's need to quite literally destroy the social fabric of Iraq, something not accomplished in the 12 years of sanctions. The armed struggle is a positive development, no less than the armed struggle of Palestinians against the Israeli occupation is a positive development. Communists do NOT condemn violence in all its forms. We do not condemn the violence of the slave against the slaveholder , of the oppressed against the oppressor of the occupied against the occupier. And so we must understand the unreason of reason, and the reason of unreason, the essential, and revolutionary rationality of unreason against the US occupation. Those who thought there was some rationality, that it was reasonable to regard the US occupation as a moderating, constructive, influence on Iraq, holding back the wolf at the door, and the dogs of war, have to account now for the constructive influence of collective punishment, the reasonableness of artillery and rocket strikes against the general population. dms
