Re: [A-List] The nature of WSF rhetoric

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The question is not what you want, but how you must do you to get what
you want.  Some people, all self-styled liberals, rave about what they
world do if they have a million dollar to make the world better, but
have no idea how to go about making a million dollars under or outside
capitalism.  US liberals ought to stop telling the rest of the world
what to do, and starting opposing their own government at home with some
real rigor, like Ramsey Clark.  Unless US liberals show some concrete
revolutionary achievements in their own country, they have no status to
give advice to those who have made concrete achievement by blood and
sacrifice and yes brutality.  Now that some in the oppressed Third World
are beginning to show concrete results from their hard-earned
anti-imperialism struggles, these First World parasites who never were
even able to even moderate the systemic oppression in their own country,
let alone stop it, are now trying to tell those who faced death and
economic sanction how to be more perfect, as if the fact they came from
the US and its rotten academic institutions automaticaly annoint them
superior revolutionaries.  Their own understanding of the US system and
how the evil operates in it is pitifully inadequate, kept in the dark by
their self comforting posture of being ideologically purer than Third
World real fighters in the field. Types like Bond opposes brutality and
promotes "democracy", but they seem to do that with more passion in
their criticism of revolutionary forces than they do of the imperialist
establishment.

Revolutions are movements of stages without ultimates. To condemn the
lastest revolutionary stage for not reaching yet the ultimate stage is
to protect the obsolete stage now under siege.  China is not perfect,
Venesuela is  not perfect, but the progress these countries are making
does not warrant the biased attacks from the like of Bond, and not for
the hidden-agenda arguments he tiresomely makes. Not a word about the
progress toward the elimination of poverty, the defeat of imperialism,
but lots of noise about brutality and repression.  How many on this list
really buy Bond's anti-communist line? Or that if the "repessive" CPC is
overthrown, the poor in China would be better off?  Be serious.

Henry C.K. Liu


Jurriaan Bendien wrote:

> (Michael Albert speaking at the WSF on anti-capitalist strategy)
>
> "So let me summarize. I think wanting workers and consumers self
> management, economic equity, classlessness, fulfilling distribution,
> and anti authoritarian political self management, together entail a
> great many strategic priorities for us all, such as building councils,
> elevating self management, incorporating balanced job complexes,
> avoiding coordinatorism, opposing markets, and reapportioning power."
>
> From:
> http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=9602
>
> So now you know!!!
>
> J.