Re: DPRK and Louis Godena, Kevin Cabral, Charlotte Kates and Jerry Levy

[CKates@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 96-01-28 22:52:03 EST, you write:

>       From the same people who supported a hard-line coup against
>Gorbechov, and held up Stalin as a world hero for all those years. Call it
>CP-baiting, call it Kates baiting; but I can never agree with any
>organization which apologizes for DPRK by lying about traditions.
>
>       DPRK is a failure in freedom, and in economics. When Gus Hall
>listed DPRK in his honor roll of socialism during his New Year's Day
>address on C-SPAN I'm sure the bourgeoisie secretly celebrated as the
>self-proclaimed vanguard of the proletariat, honored hell itself.
>                               
>       I must ask for the record whether, if the CPUSA takes power, we
>will all be required to wear a lapel pin with a picture of Gus Hall on it?
>And is that a hallmark quality of socialist tradition?
>
>

I'll tell you what the bourgeoisie celebrates: socialists too busy attacking
the Communist Party to ally themselves with an effective organization,
leftists too busy denouncing CPUSA to denounce capitalism, radicals too
concerned with the DPRK to worry about the ROK and other sundry means of
disuniting the progressive forces. Failure, huh? Sounds like the same
bourgeois line about "collapsing communism" to me. Too bad for them, it's not
true. Hell itself?? Now really, c'mon, I expect better from you than
this....I mean, I didn't think that you were into mimicking the shrill lies
of bourgeois media.
As for your question, it is simply too ridiculous. I don't know what exactly
you are hoping to acheive here, maybe a flamewar or something, but you're not
going to get it. My party and I have more important things with which to
concern ourselves.
Comradely, Charlotte


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