> All those polemics from the time of Plekhanov, Lenin, Trotsky
>against individualistic terrororism were not written by Reaganite
>ideologues...
But the incriminated speech from Aristide was spoken to the masses, not to individuals. And the incriminated passage (which did not include the words "tire" or "necklace") directly targeted the Macoutes. Obviously this was not a trivial danger.
In a revolution, especially one threatened by very powerful counterrevolutionaries, popular vengeance against officially-sponsored murderers, rapists, torturers--and their sponsors--can take very unpretty, even materially unjust, shapes. Remember the tarred and feathered Tories? September 1792 in Paris? October 1956 in Budapest? Who of us, though, would assert moral equivalence between Washington and George III? Between Danton and Brunswick? Between Nagy and Khrushchev? So with Aristide and the Bushits.
Shane Mage
"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives"
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62 forms.