Re: [Marxism] PSL on China

[Tom Cod <tcod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

this doesn't surprise me; its part of the whole knee jerk attitude toward 
events in the former socialist countries that WWP (PSL is its offspring) had.  
"your enemies enemy is your friend" etc. is a valuable precept until it becomes 
a knee-jerk caricature of itself.  On this same basis Workers World supported 
the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; a mentality that in these 
contexts puts global political needs of doctrine ahead of individual rights, 
the former meaning that any serious investigation of the facts is really not 
necessary; just dismiss them all as counter-revolutionaries.  In these 
instances, a truly Stalinist attitude.



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