[lbo-talk] splendid rhetoric

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 15 12:11:12 PDT 2005


[Thanks to Michael Pug for uncovering this gem of Stalnist rhetoric from the ancient Spoons Marxism list <http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-04.021>. Adolfo is an upper-class Peruvian who turned Communist and had a price on his head, and went into exile in London. You don't see this kind of prose much anymore.]

From owner-marxism-international Sat Mar 1 20:56:17 1997 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 01:57:36 GMT Message-Id: <199703020157.BAA10419 at easynet.co.uk> From: hariette at easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings) Subject: M-I: Bleeding magdalenes in a diarrhoea of sanctimonious panic

Sanctimonious mousy eunuchs Begodious and Gereticus would do better in joining the long queue of counter-revolutionary enemies of the people wanting the favour of being put out of their misery. These two are too lazy, cowardly and thoroughly reactionary to even do the decent thing and top themselves of, despite openly recognising their condition of "worthless parasites". Not even that tiny speck of an iota of real marxism they have in their useless bones!.

What are these crying magadalenes all about, besides vulgar wreckers, agent provocateurs and ridiculous and pathetic cry-babies?

One, is a tremulous and tearful mouse - under the illusion that he is worth his lightweight brain in lead. He arrogantly demands that someone would waste a perfectly good 8mm bullet on his worthless carcass!.

Another, a courtesan eunuch claiming - in a sort of sympathetic pregnancy state of mind - that he too has received death threats.

However, these two, are really out of luck, and no one is going to waste any precious time in helping them top themselves out of their well deserved misery. We communists, are not that humane, and moreover, it is much better for the revolutionary cause that these mercenary courtesans continue to deambulate tearfully crying their miserable eyes out in moving sanctimonious panic all over the place.

In any case, how can anyone kill those who are already as dead as doornails? - at most you can give them a decent burial.

However these two do not deserve that anyone - least of all any serious revolutionary - would spare any time in helping them do what they ought to do by their own hands, if they only had the most minimal sense of duty to the cause of Marxism and the proletariat to which they so often pay the most highfallutin lip service.

Therefore, they are condemned to roam the world pulling the ghostly ball chains of "people's enemies", as the counter-revolutionary cretins that they have proven themselves to be, here and everywhere else they have attempted their well rehearsed agent provocateurs double or triple acts.

For their insults against the revolution, the masses may have wanted to have their balls for garters. However, here too, in this department, these vermin are already completely useless - how could anyone cut the gullies of eunuchs who - like their lie-lie-lie-lie teacher Goebbles - haven't got any?

Sorry vermin! No dice. No one is to relieve you two of your miserable imitation of a life. You are condemned to endlessly commit harakiri in public across as many lists as you can manage, no matter how disgusting the yellow reactionary pro-imperialist pus oozing out your bellies and out of every pore, may look to others. The more you ooze, the more you show up the anti-communist cause you promote in its real colours and its true repellent and stinking fashion.

You can play the martyred and ravished virgins to your hearts content, but you are not even worth a second hand toothpick - let alone a perfectly good icepick!.

Adolfo



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