[Marxism] Re: Earl Browder

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

.    On  02.10.05
  wrote  cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Brown)
     on  /ALIST/MARXMAIL
     in  B0038481945@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  about  [Marxism] Earl Browder


CB> At the time of the party position, it wasn't clear that the Red
CB> Army would defeat the Nazis somewhat on the Red Army's own, so it
CB> might have been necessary to have places like the "Arsenal of
CB> Democracy" going full blast to defeat the Nazis.

   OK, what would an "Arsenal of Democracy" have meant
in the Second World War?

   First: Declare all colonies to be independent, and mean it.
   French colonies, British colonies, Netherland colonies, Belgian  
colonies, Danish colonies, and of course, US colonies (Philipines,  
Puerto Rico, Hawaii, other Pacific Islands). Promise all peoples  
occupied by the Nazis and Japanese imperialism complete and real  
independence, including the Italian and Spanish colonies. Hand back  
the Malvinas to Argentina, and Gibraltar to Spain (or promise to do  
that right after the defeat of Germany).

   Real Democracy is incompatible with the dictatorship over hundreds  
of milliones of colonial slaves.


   Second: Abolish race segregation in the US armed forces (and other  
imperialist and colonialist forces).

   How could a racial segregated army fight against racial oppression  
and genocide?


   Third: give full democratic rights for dissentint ideas, instead of  
jailing revolutionary socialists for their ideas, as the USA has done.



CB> Thus, no strikes during the war in Detroit , etc.,
CB> was a reasonable position.

   I don't think so, because that meant to subjugate the political  
freedom of the working class to the political police of the  
colonialism, and in the verbal sense of spying against other workers  
and supporting the suppression of the right for dissent. The US CP  
actually _did_ support the jailing of the leaders of the SWP and the  
local 544 of the Teamsters for their socialist ideas.



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