[Marxism] Re: SWP: "U.S. troops consolidate victory in Fallujah"

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

.    On  25.11.04
  wrote  walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Walter Lippmann)
     on  /ALIST/MARXMAIL
     in  01a401c4d360$c88950e0$cf9d37c8@D8S7XM51
  about  RE: [Marxism] Re: SWP: "U.S. troops consolidate victory in Fallujah"


WL> Luko: I'm glad you're now beginning to see these things
WL> and are pointing them out. It's not some obsession on
WL> the part of those of us who've been saying these kinds
WL> of things since THE MILITANT began being on the other
WL> side of the barricades during the Elian struggle.

   Dear Walter, I observe and comment an _evolution_ on the part of  
The Militant and the SWP. And I hold on to my rule that one should  
stick to the facts in this case as in every other, and not hasten to  
premature conclusions and sweeping generalizations.

   As to the Elian case, you might remember the letter which I had  
written to The Militant on their article back then, and which I made  
public to this list not long time ago (and which was sent to all SWP  
branches and CLs back then).

   "The most pernicious lies are truths, slightly distorted" noted  
Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, a German physicist and writer of the late  
18th and early 19th century.

   The Militant was correct in stating that the INS raid on the house,  
where Elian Gonzalez were kept, was an exercise in the way that the  
INS was raiding many other working peoples homes, but The Militant  
left out the context, i.e. that this was the last resort of the US  
government to avoid the mass mobilization that Elian's father had  
announced, that he would march to that house with thousands of US  
citizens to fetch his son. This context was also left out by many many  
people who applauded Janet Reno's initiative.

   With their description of the US offensive against Fallujah as just  
a game between them and the "Baathist remnants", as if it did not  
concern the general Iraqi population, is a distinctive step in the  
rightward evolution of the US SWP.

   BTW, there is one other development in the SWP which worries me -  
their seem to revert their stance on nuclear power. While I too do  
defend the right of Iran to develop their country and their weaponry  
as they see fit, without a dictate of imperialism thru the IAEO, I see  
it as completely wrong to assume that a workers and farmers government  
or a socialist society could turn artificial radioactivity into a safe  
source of energy, as some phrases in The Militant seem to suggest.  
That would be rather a return to the charlatanery of Lyssenko, but not  
to scientific thinking in the spirit of Karl Marx.


Yours,
Lüko Willms                                     http://www.mlwerke.de
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