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

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Mon Oct 11 18:02:02 PDT 1999


Lenin, right on many things, was, sorry, wrong on this one...

Steve

Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jim heartfield wrote:


> 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
>



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