Re: Why socialism is necessary

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 25 May 2002 12:06:15 +0200, Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
>the military support of the USSR and PRC for
>various combatants in numerous third world
>countries in accordance with their own foreign
>policy designs.

I find this statement troubling. It reminds me of the sort of
commentary you get on op-ed pages or Sunday morning television talk
shows. Those "combatants" you refer to were generally attempting to
eliminate the daily violence of hunger and disease that was the
product of neocolonial "peace". If anything, the collapse of the USSR
has made the world a more violent place as imperialism is freer to
trample on the rights of Palestinians, Iraqis, et al. The kind of
wars I object to are capitalist wars. Wars of social and national
emancipation are not only just, but imperative.

"Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle
hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the
United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be
welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some
receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons
and other men be ready to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato
singing of the machine-guns and new battle cries of war and victory."

Che Guevara, April 16, 1967 Message to the Tricontinental



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Louis Proyect, lnp3@xxxxxxxxx on 05/25/2002

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