Re: Fwd: Re: Shining Path, Dmitro...

[Justin Schwartz <jschwart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996 Godenas@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> This is a difficult question for many on the left, I suspect, whether to
> limit our work to electoral struggles in the legal arena and end up with the
> likes of Jackson, Sanders, Wellstone, etc., who are moving further to the
> right every day (Sanders was a big proponent of Clinton's crime bill, etc.),

This is a pink herring. Even DSA and CoC, which are most heavily committed to
the Dems., do not limit themselves to electoral work.

> a form of "parliamentary cretinism," so to speak.  They play the same role as
> does the IU and its allied groups in Peru; to dull the discontent of the
> masses, turn it toward "safe", non-threatening activities,

If fighting for reforms is so nonthreatening, why does it give the
bourgeoisie fits?

 which,
> simultaneously helps them to line their own pockets (Jackson, for example,
> took some of the money extorted from both the poor and corporations like Nike
> to send his own children to an exclusive all white private school near

Interesting. Did his children become white when they went the way my
Indian (from India) friend from grad school in England changed from Black to
white when she moved to the states? Or is there some other process why
which the school remained all white when the Jackson kids enrolled?

> Paxton, Massachusetts,  his opportunistic alliance with the racist racketeer
> Farrakhan, etc.).  In Peru, the IU goes a step further and acts as police
> agents of the Fujimori regime. maintaining a vast network of police
> informers, organizing "self-defense" groups (that act as wheel-men for the
> death squads, etc).  They are, however, basically the same type as the
> luminaries heretofore referred to; parasites who fatten themselves and their
> labor allies off the sufferings of the people.

So, do we seek the Senderista solution to the problem and form hit squads
to deal with Jackson and other enemies of the people? Is that the idea?

--Justin




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