Re: [Marxism] Why the Red Army Faction Matters

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

kers-something or other writ: "Finally, even the 1977 campaign to free the
prisoners, which is viewed by everyone as having been a catastrophe not only
for the left, but also for the RAF, was not an unmitigated defeat. By
pushing Schmidt to lurch to the right the tiny guerilla organizations
managed to help lay the basis for breaking leftists away from the SPD, which
in turn contributed to the breakthrough of the Greens. Of course, some of
these folks ended up integrated into the system, so if like me one starts
the discussion with the a priori judgment that that's a dead end, then i
guess this isn't a good thing. But that's a point i've stated, but am not
going to argue here." 

Which reminds me of another Peter Camejo joke, this wasn't part of his stump
speeches, he told it to me one night when I was telling him some of the
jokes I'd picked up in Cuba when I went on the Antonio Maceo Brigade in
1979.

He said back in the 1930's there were two Soviet functionaries who had been
the closest of comrades during the Civil War but hadn't seen each other
since. One was traveling from Minsk to Pinsk, the other from Pinsk to Minsk,
and as fate would have it, their trains met at a watering station between
the two cities. They saw each other, embraced, started talking about the old
days what they'd done since, their wives and children, and eventually
hearing the whistle blow got back on one of the trains together and
continued talking. Eventually one of them asked the other, where are you
going? "To Minsk," he said. "And you?"

"To Pinsk" said the other.

To which the first one replied, "Ah, comrade, aren't dialectics amazing?"

Joaquin


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