[lbo-talk] bashing of designated evil regimes

[Michael Pugliese]

    Once http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937/1937-ussr.htm 
again http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0208/falsifications.htm (heh, 
"Once Again on Falsifications Concerning the Great Leader’s Personality, ") 
on...bashing of designated evil regimes...
   Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, who lives near by, who had a very hard scrabble 
Oklahoma upbringing, (see her Red Dirt Okie book and the follow up from 
City Lights Books on her SDS days, when she was on the leftest edge of SDS, 
when the scions of the bourgeoisie, proto yuppies like Bill Ayers, son of a 
utility co. executive and Kathy Boudin, who went to the "best schools" like 
Vassar, were fucking up, along w/ PLP and COINTELPRO, SDS, in the late 
60's), back in the 80's, working for a UN subcommittee on human rights, 
after her work in the anti-apartheid movement, gathered information, mostly 
from the Iraqi Communist Party, Kurds and Sh'ia, on the human rights 
violations pf the Iraqi Ba'athists. http://mailman.lbo- 
talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040105/000382.html
   Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz...Saw her in the crowd at Modern Times when Bill 
Ayers w/ Bernadine Dohrn was on his book tour.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1548/4_18/105370445/p1/article.jhtml
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   To the Editor:
During my UN human rights work in the l980s, Saddam Hussein's atrocities 
were well known and documented. I worked with Kurds, Marsh Arabs, and Iraqi 
Communists who were in forced exile and whose families had been tortured 
and killed. The nadir was 1988, when Hussein used chemical weapons against 
Kurdish villages and Iranian soldiers in the north. At every step of the 
way, the Reagan, then Bush administrations blocked every resolution.
I resent the accusation in Juan Cole's essay in your May/June 2003 issue 
that "the anti-war movement" did not properly address Saddam Hussein's 
human rights abuses. Had the United States not blocked all diplomatic 
measures in the 1980s, Hussein would have been toppled, just as the 
apartheid regime in South Africa was. The problem is the United States, and 
that's what we need to deal with.
DR. ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ
San Francisco, CA
COPYRIGHT 2003 Tikkun Magazine
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    Deluded "Communists" in Russia now.
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0208/falsifications.htm
...Modern imperialism, with the support from revisionists of various kind, 
does everything within its capabilities to diminish the great leader’s 
name, to erase it from the people’s memory. This is because Stalin means 
Socialism and Communism. That means equality and fraternity of all the 
peoples of the world. The power and the vigorous logic present in his 
teachings, remain the principle weapon in the struggles to establish the 
dominance of Labour over Capital. This is why even a mere mentioning of the 
leader’s name is sufficient to cause a shiver amongst those who pull our 
socialist Homeland backwards in spite of the laws of historical 
development. By using lies, by doctoring and substituting facts, these 
modern human mutants are trying to forge an imager of Stalin, which is the 
direct opposite of what the leader truly represents. The ideological heirs 
of those responsible for the acts of terror in the young Soviet country (1) 
accuse J.V. Stalin of terrorism. The descendants of those that created the 
theory of "kulaks’ socialism" and the 1933 Famine are trying to hold 
Bolsheviks responsible for causing some of the population to starve.

The newborn leaders of the present day Russia’s totalitarian pseudo- 
democracy accuse Stalin of totalitarianism. The traitors and the 
gravediggers of our Soviet Homeland who are now following the catastrophic 
path dictated by US and NATO, spread lies about our heroic History.

But rather than contemplating the past, slandering one’s own people, is it 
not more appropriate to deal with the current affairs first? For example, 
as total robbery of Soviet people, its extinction as a result of pseudo- 
reforms, is this not genocide or a compelled starved existence? J.V. Stalin 
was the leader, whose genius is recognized worldwide. It was under his 
leadership that our country made a huge leap out of centuries-long 
backwardness to the heights of world excellence, in quite extreme 
conditions, with enemies inside and outside the USSR. Can anyone question 
this?

However, it is important to do much more than just clear the great leader’s 
name of the slanders. The latter is essentially obvious. It is imperative 
that we defend his teachings! So what is the essence of Lenin’s and 
Stalin’s concept of changing the world?...

...To give readers outside the boundaries of the USSR an idea of the amount 
that the governmental Mafia of Ukraine seized from the personal savings in 
formerly State-owned banks, we shall quote some figures. These figures were 
reported by people’s deputy of Ukraine Jurii Donchenko… the sum is around 
132 billions (3) Grivnas, which is the estimated national budget 
expenditure for Ukraine for the year 2002. So, who is the scoundrel robbing 
the masses – a communist (o)r a bourgeois?

Today over 40% of the working population in the Ukraine are unemployed. 
Every year, 3 to 7 million Ukrainian citizens are compelled to leave the 
country for other countries, seeking jobs on legal or illegal basis.

...THIRD aspect is also a very important one, is that a true Communist, 
Bolshevik, Stalinist is a convinced internationalist. The Soviet Union was 
a perfect example of the unity and friendship of peoples, united in 
pursuing common aims and tasks. Soviet patriotism had been the greatest 
ethico-psychological and political achievement of the Soviet power. Quoted 
in the newspaper Communist, December 21, 2001.