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> From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org
> [mailto:lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org]On
> Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:15 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] What History Will Remember
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>
> At 12:02 AM -0400 4/7/03, Chip Berlet wrote:
> >And if, through some horrid quirk of fate,
> >your type of revolution ever took power,
> >you would dance on my grave,
> >and the grave of all who criticized your lust for power,
> >and your zeal for absolute domination,
> >and your thrill at the certainty of your cause.
> >The masculinist apocalypse dreams of blood.
> >No matter what flag is raised over the carnage,
> >The stench is what history remembers.
>
> You know, Chip, our fecklessness in the face of absolute domination
> and the stench of carnage caused by it is what history will remember.
> --
> Yoshie
Yoshie,
That you would miss my point confirms part of my criticism.
By starting with a quote from Che about true revolutionaries, I was signalling that my prose was not designed to attack all revolutionaries, only those revolutionaries who find glee or indifference in the deaths of their enemies.
When you build a revolution that celebrates blood lust, you are designing a future society that continues the celebration of blood lust.
All revolutions pose the possibility of death for adversaries.
Those revolutionaries that dance on the graves of their enemies build a society that goes on to devour its critics.
Process matters.
The ends do not justify the means.
-Chip