lefter-than-thou-ness

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Mar 8 11:01:02 PST 1999


In general ,terrorism is a characteristic of rightwingers and bourgeois ideology, not leftwingers, contrary to monopoly media propaganda. The Unabomber's terrorism is indicative of petit bourgeois, not communist, elements in his ideology.

Lenin made famous polemics AGAINST the assasination tactics of the People's Will group in Russia. The Leninist strategy is to win the support of the overwhelming majority of the people (the working class) for socialism, a truly democratic path to state power. The Russian Revolution of October 1917 was not a terrorist coup d'etat, contra slanderous bourgeois historical accounts.

Charles Brown


>>> Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> 03/07/99 01:25PM >>>
What do people think of the Unabomber's salvo against leftists in the opening paragraph of the Manifesto? Michaeli di Leonardo was struck by the bizareness of a terrorist recommending less militant protests by minority activists in order to appease white men. Well, according to the NYT, Theodor seems willing to forgive his brother in the upcoming autobio as long as the rat fink joins the hard environmentalists. yours, rakesh



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