Re: AUT: Re: Re: The IRA and Peace

[billbartlett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Bartlett)]

George Pennefather wrote:

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>Your use of the phrase "murderous armed struggle" would seem to suggest
>that all armed struggle is murderous and thereby morally wrong. I must say
>that I cannot share such moral abstractions or prescriptions.

That is not what he suggests at all, merely that non-violent means are
preferrable, for both moral and practical purposes. I saw no implication
that *all* armed struggle is wrong.

> Armed struggle can be a valid and necessary form of class struggle.

Only as a last resort. If other means are available, then gratuitous
violence is obviously unacceptable.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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