Re: [Marxism] PSL on China

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Without getting into all the ins and outs of the 1989 Tiananmen protest 
and its crushing, the least that can be said is that this PSL account is 
highly selective both in the facts and in its spin. I wonder if PSL 
heard the student protesters singing "The Internationale," and if they 
did, was that merely proof that they were inspired by the CIA or 
imperialism? Some New York City gays were so incensed at Workers World 
Party's support of the Stalinist crushing of the protest that I 
intervened at one meeting in the Community Center to try to calm them 
down. But WWP and PSL have a one-sided and tendentious version, 
consistent with their longtime Manichaean view of the world. To them, 
everything is black and white, evil or good, progressive/revolutionary 
or counterrevolutionary. If things were only so simple.
David

Eli Stephens wrote:
> Tiananmen Square and the threat of counterrevolution:
> http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=wsArticle&id203
>
>
>   



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