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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fine-- I recant. But my analogy has been
completely between the Cubans and the CPUSA, so why did you throw out the "cold
war liberal" stuff that I was accusing the CPUSA of advocating violent
revolution? I thinks you are acting a bit rhetorically virtuous when
you're own rhetoric was a bit muddy-- NN</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com
href="mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com">andie nachgeborenen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Cuba
petition</DIV>
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<DIV>Speaking of baseless accusations, where have I even characterized, must
less accused, Cuban dissidents of anything? I was responding to your very own
comoarison of the Cuban dissidents to the CPUSA, which would charm bith sides.
So in an extraordinary dishonest, i mean breathtaking creepy, rhetorical
reversal, you make a bad analofy, defend it fiercely, and when I point
out that the factual basis of one side if it is flawed, you accuse me of
smearing the Cubans -- with your own analogy! Nathan, that is worthy of Leo
Casey. Moreover, you also know that I have expressly condemned the
repressiveness of the Cuban govt in thsi and other instances, so why are you
trying to lump me with those who defend it? I just won't sign Casey's lousy
petition. (I wouldn't sign a petition he wrote to get my _kids_ out of
jail.) I will write letters for Amnesty. I challenge you to do likewise.
This isn;t about building ficticious moral capiral to decide who is worthy to
oppose the! US invasion of Cuba whena nd if it comes. It's about getting some
people out of jail. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Nathan Newman
<nathanne@nathannewman.org></I></B> wrote:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Who said anything about violent overthrow of
the government? The Cuban dissidents involved in these trials
specifically supported political overthrow of the system-- that was the
point of the Verela petition and movement.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The morphing of accusations against the Cubans
involved is exactly the kind of rhetoric that McCarthy used.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why is it so hard for people just to say,
Castro is engaging in human rights violations of a high order here. He
is executing people and imprisoning non-violent dissidents. Whether
you agree with the "timing" of the petition against those acts, the refusal
of people to just call a human rights violation a human rights violation is
exactly the problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And why I'm doubly glad I signed the petition
and hope many leftists follow suit.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Nathan Newman</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
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<A title=andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com
href="mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com">andie nachgeborenen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:33
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Cuba
petition</DIV>
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<DIV>The CPUSA never wavered in its official view (from 1936 on) that it
was seeking change by peaceful electoral means. It predicted fascist
dictatorship during the McCarthy period, and asserted the right of
revolution in the face of fascism, but it did not take an RCP like
position that violent overthrow was its strategy. And while the CPUSA took
money from the Soviets, who, btw, did not use the specific language of
peaceful coexistence during the Pop Front Era, neither did the Soviet
Union ever _officially_ adopt as its goal (at least after Lenin's death)
the violent overthrow of the US govt; the chill of the Cold War period
was, like the CPUSA's, due a prediction that US woquld initiate conflict,
not to am unrealistic long or short term aspiration to overthrow it. You
cold wat liberals buy all the old anticommunist myths -- Reds under the
Bed, seeking to Overthrow Our way of Life and make us all learn the
Cyrillic alphabet. You'd think people would know better by now. jk! !
s<BR><BR><B><I>Nathan Newman <nathanne@nathannewman.org></I></B>
wrote:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, to get the facts correct-- the
coexistence language was abandoned after Browder until Krushchev and it
was that period that coincided with the height of McCarthyism.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And the folks being imprisoned in Cuba are
themselves officially committed to working within the Cuban system and
changing things politically. Most are associated with the
grassroots Varela petition project.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So again, there is no condition in that
regard that is really different about the CPUSA in the early 1950s and
the Cuban dissidents presently being jailed in Cuba.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Nathan Newman</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com
href="mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com">andie nachgeborenen</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 15, 2003
3:10 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Cuba
petition</DIV>
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<DIV>Actually, oddicially, the USSR had abandoned the goal of
ovethrowing the US system under Khrushchev. The watchword was
"peaceful coexistence." The CPUSA was (whatever some its members may
have privately hoped) officially committed to peaceful change through
electoral means (Practically speaking it was (since 1936 or so) and is
entirely under the wing of the Democratic Party.) You cold war
liberals never get even the basic facts right.
jks<BR><BR><B><I>Luke Weiger <lweiger@umich.edu></I></B>
wrote:
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Officially, the Soviet Union was trying to overthrow the US system,
which<BR>is<BR>> one reason they were funding the CPUSA.
Everything people say seems to be<BR>> supporting McCarthy in his
arguments.<BR>><BR>> -- Nathan Newman<BR><BR>The only
difference is the likelihood that the government in question
might<BR>be overthrown.<BR><BR>--
Luke<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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