Re: bombs

[malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)]

>Paul Cockshott wrote:
>
>> Jorn:
>> Do you really think that a working class could use atomic bombs
>> for any good? Nuclear weapons are offensive weapons which mainly
>> kill *people* (i.e. workers). How could a workers' state argue
>> at the same time as it uses nuclear weapons that those same workers
>> should fight their own rulers and not a foreign workers' state?
>> I think it's impossible ...
>> Paul C
>> ------
>> If the USSR had not acquired the bomb by the end of the 40s, can
>> you doubt that the US would have used nuclear weapons in the Korean
>> war?
>
>Jorn:
>They probably would - but that doesn't say anything about
>what workers could or should do with nuclear arms.
>Unless of course you think Stalin's Russia was some kind
>of state with workers in control? I don't.
>
>
>Yours
>
>Jorn Andersen
>
The state caps can not tell the difference between a trade union and its
reformist leaders. But they also canot tell the difference between the
Soviet union as a deformed workers state and imperialism..

No contradictions everybody is the enemy. Good luck Jorn.. But...

malecki in exile...




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