Carl Webb (was Re: On Krauts and Yankees (was Re: [Marxism] Re: The MilitaryProgramme of the Proletarian Revolution(was Re: Many Vietna...

["Carlos A. Rivera" <cerejota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Carl Webb" <carlwebb@xxxxxxxxx>

> How does the fact that revolutionaries worked clandestinely during
> WWII and now in the USA such work is less dangerous matter?

Thing is that basically comparing Gemrnay under the Nazis in WWII with the
USA under the Reprocrats today is an apples and oranges situation.

1) The battles of this war are not being fought in the USA or even close to
it.

2) The goverment in the USA today is not fascist.

Again, I am all for the victory of the resistance. In concrete terms this
means that a lot of US soldiers will die. AT the *same* time I advocate
trying to convince soldiers and their families of how wrong this war is.
This might sound to ears like Joe's to become vegans who work in
slaugtherhouses, but to me is a simple excercise in dialectics, and a
proven, result-providing, one at that.


> Does this
> make me any less complicit in the war?

That is a question you have to ask yourself. Who am I to judge?

This is the problem I have with moral arguments as strategic principles. As
the pamphlet I recently quoted from Lenin shows, marxists are not opposed to
war, just to wars who don't advance the interests of the workers. And all
war is, morally, hell.

I think morally judging a soldier becomes compeltely unusefull politically
when faced with the truth that a people's army might have to do, in the
prosecution of a just war, exactly what the current armed forces had to do
to prosecute their own war.

So for me it is not primary to idoelogically criticize the actions of a
soldier, in as much as it is primary to criticize the policies and system
who put him or her in that position in the first place.

sks






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