Re: [Marxism] the right of the victim to use violence

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Fred Feldman wrote (re Hamas) -
> But I believe they have the unconditional right to continue to
> attack  Israeli troops as long as they are stationed in Gaza, and  
> even beyond
> if that  proves possible. I think they have a fundamental RIGHT to  
> shell
> Israeli towns  and cities as long as their people are being starved  
> and
> debilitated  economically and physically by the blockade.


No.  Never.  Not in my name.  To bombard towns and cities, for any  
cause whatsoever, is to attempt to kill and maim civilians, from  
unborn children to the most elderly.  It is to slaughter workers in  
supposed reprisal for crimes committed by their rulers.  Genocide  
(Hamburg), murder (Gaza), and attempted murder (Sderot) are all crimes  
whose authors merit punishment.  That different crimes incur, and  
deserve, different penalties leaves them crimes nonetheless.  Has Fred  
really learned  nothing from the overwhelming discredit still  
afflicting the Left and caused by the stupidity of so many Leftists  
who insisted, and even still insist, that there was something  
"socialist" about the Stalinist Russian and Chinese empires?  Does he  
really want socialists to be regarded as people who claim the "RIGHT"  
to kill and maim civilians, from unborn children to the most elderly?   
If so he has a lot of--the worst--company.

Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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