[fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut of responses(fwd)

[Jim heartfield]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910101846400.27618-100000 at uhunix1>, Stephen E
Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes
>Max, 
>Your sense of history is bizzare. Food stamps programs are a product of
>struggles from the left, particularly working class based struggles..The
>death penalty? 
>
>Steve

I don't think you can automatically make the equation 
left = anti, right = pro.

Lenin pleaded with his comrades to keep the death penalty, feeling that
it was an essential for the state, having opposed the Tsarist use of it.

Revolutionary movements like the IRA used physical punishments up to and
including killing to punish informants. 

I would never trust the state as it is presently constituted to execute
people, but I do think that the mainstream 'anti' argument has some
flaws.
-- 
Jim heartfield