Re: Shining Path, Dmitrov and...

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 1996 Godenas@xxxxxxx wrote:

> for the participants.  Louis, the IU in Peru is not the SPD.  The IU actually
> helped Fujimori to power by jumping off the sinking ship of the Vargas LLosa
> campaign and, together with the catholic church, hooking up with Fujimori
> instead.  In any event, the PCP targets only those who actively organize
> against the subversion (as they sometimes call the revolution), who inform to
> the police and the death squads, who organize civilian militias, etc., etc.,
>  Not the sort of people I'd join up with in any "united front."  I'm amazed

Louis: Godena, the German social democracy supported every rotten "lesser
evil" bourgeois candidate including Hindenburg, who, almost immediately
after taking office, turned the power over to Bruning, who then allowed
the Nazis to terrorize a working-class neighborhood. The working class
was intimitated into accepting new elections in this climate of violence
and Hitler was elected. The German social democracy was *much* worse than the
Peruvian left that the Shining Path wants to kill.

Dmitrov had enough sense to repudiate the "left turn". You and groups like
the RCP, MIM, etc. by supporting the Shining Path are attacking the supreme
wisdom achieved by comrade Stalin in the aftermath of the German misfortune.
What motivates you to attack the class line promoted in the doctrine of
Dmitrov's Third International? Are you afraid of the powerful red fist of
the proletariat as it marches toward victory.

Perhaps life in Western Massachusetts is too pleasant and blinds you from
harsher realities. After all, a revolution is not a tea-party. Political
power grows out the barrel of a gun. If you're not part of the solution,
then you're part of the problem.

Down with porkchops!


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