Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:50:44 -0500
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: AUT: Sparts new stuff -same ole stuff


The sheet of the Sparts in the USA , Workers Vanguard,
is schizophrenic politically. On the one hand they say 
"We give military but no political support to Iraq"  as if
military activities/actions  were not political!! They are
already stepping in their own  trotsky  terds here? 
Then they say that 'marxists always take sides in 
wars '. Even capitalist wars in our epoch? Apparently this 
is no problem for the sparts!  

When reactionary exploiter forces fight it out , I don't think
communists should back one side or another but should be for the
masses of toilers in and out of the bourg. armed forces trying
to organize their own class forces against the capitalist 
ones using them for cannon fodder /wage slaves.. 

The sparts also say Iraq is a' semi-colonial country' .
Is this so now?. Iraq has formal national bourgeois independence
today. It is a regional 3rd rate capitalist  power.  True if to be 
successful in its regional ambitions of its bosses , it probably needs 
a great power sponsor or two to back it up , to keep it from getting
shallacked by the US or UK imperialism again . That would be the Sparts
ideal
as they until recently, they  considered Russia en ex- bloc   'workers
states'!
Does not Iraqui capital get invested in other lands too?

They still today say (scream!) China, Cuba , Vietnam ,No. Korea are 
'workers states' , but how can a state cap run economy  with
waged slavery serve workers?
How can a political state of bosses and bureaucrats that won't even
allow workers to organize anywhere without bayonets nad brass 
knuckles employed against them  be for the workers rule?

The Sparts have a lot of explaining to do, they and their allies 
 are nothing but crude apologists for stalinist state capitalism.
their position is opposed to workers  fighting bourgeois rule -
It would oppose for instance Iraqui masses rising up against 
Husseins regime now , and in metro states, they just tail 
behind the left posturing wing of the trade unions as they 
keep a lid on the class antagonisms with lies and threats,when
they  are not pleading poverty for the employers... 

Neil.  


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