WE WELCOME FLYING SAUCERS BECAUSE THEY COME FROM SOCIALIST GALAXIES
Subject: WE WELCOME FLYING SAUCERS BECAUSE THEY COME FROM SOCIALIST GALAXIES From: Michael Pugliese (debsian at pacbell.net) Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 14:09:16 EDT
Re: PosadasTo: marxism at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Posadas From: "Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky at arnet.com.ar> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:07:05 -0300
En relación a Posadas,
el 4 Sep 00, a las 7:43, Louis Proyect dijo:
> >fascinating to me) papers and pamphlets containing Posadas' immortal
> >words of wisdom, but amongst none of them was any mention of Little
> >Green Men form the Red Planet. Could somebody help me out on this and
> >tell me what it was all about, and maybe refer me to some sources.
> >Ta, James.
>
> Actually Posadas never said he believed in UFO's. This was just an
> accusation made by his factional opponents in the world Trotskyist
> movement. He wrote an article in the 1950s--when speculation about
> extraterrestrials was rife--that made the point: if there are flying
> saucers, then that would probably indicate a higher level of social
> development on the other planet since it would require advanced
> technology to enable space travel, etc. Fairly uncontroversial stuff.
No, you are wrong. In fact he put a great headline, in catastrophe
sized letters, on "Voz Proletaria", which read "BIENVENIDOS LOS PLATOS VOLADORES PORQUE VIENEN DE GALAXIAS SOCIALISTAS" (WE WELCOME FLYING SAUCERS BECAUSE THEY COME FROM SOCIALIST GALAXIES). The newspaper passed to be nicknamed "Voz Planetaria" for a long time after that...
This does not diminish the intellectual achievements of some of the
disciples of Posadas, such as Alberto J. Plá. But truth is truth. Posadas was a good, likable, person of limited wisdom. He was much better soccer player than politician. He was centre-forward in Argentinos Juniors for some time, and it is a pity he abandoned the fields..
> What was much crazier, in my opinion, was the notion that scattered
> bands of Trotskyists would lead proletarian revolution worldwide. It
> is much more likely that we will see space aliens in our lifetime.
Now, this is certainly true.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky