-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:10 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] We shipped weapons, Sandinistas
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:43:29 -0500, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> Just for everybody's information, lying to bad guys is ok.
>
> CB
Lying to the rest of, "The Movement, " is your sector of The Left's job, eh?
The simple minded, naive, credulousity mixed w/ apologetics for Stalinist brutality against loyal Communists, peasants and workers I've heard directly in face to face conversations I've heard from CPUSA members
from the late 40's onwards, citing sources discredited decades ago by Trotskyists, libertarian communists and left social democrats, usually totally unaware or unwilling to engage marxist and other left crits of the Soviet and Chinese experiences (or even Comrade Kruschev's '56 speech)w/o engaging in pathetic charges of, "red-baiting, " like your stale dinosaur M-L'ism, is prime material for why the explicitly socialist and communist sectors of the American Left get more and more marginalized with generation and are fetters on the rethinking needed just as desperately now as when the New Left began it's partial divorce from Old Left dogmas only to see the return of the repressed in PLP and New Communist Movement of the 70's and 80's.
Not that most of twenty something's in CISPES believed that PR snow job
that the FMLN had no outside support whether from the FSLN or Cubans.
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