Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:05:28 +0100
From: Laura Fiocco <fiocco-AT-unical.it>
Subject: Re: AUT: Remove Scott from this list!


Harald, just don't read his messages. It's what I did as soon as I realized
I couldn't stand it.
ciao laura

At 16.01 12/02/2003 +0100, you wrote:
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>From: "Scott Hamilton" <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
>To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>Sent: 12. februar 2003 13.33
>Subject: AUT: IWW, WW1, WoT
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>Remove Scott from this list!
>Communists/anarchist have nothing in common with Stalinist!
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>To Scott's particular Stalinist blend of pro-capitalist,
>pro-fascist policies and systematic dishonesty.
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>"Nowhere do they talk about the workers of the Third
>World and especially Iraq overthrowing the likes of Saddam
>on their own (albeit initially in a military bloc to
>repel invasion with the anti-imperialist parts of
>their own bourgeoisie). They don't call for the
>defence of Iraq, though that was probably too much to
>ask. "
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>"In the meantime, demanding that Third World states get
>rid of their tiny stockpiles for self-defence is reactionary
>in the extreme."
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>"Does the IWW know about the thwarted workers revolution
>in Iraq in 1991?"
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>As Scott well know, whatever the faults of IWW, they do
>support a general strike against war, workers uprising in
>Iraq and elsewhere, even if not mentioned in each and
>every resolution.  Of course in Scott's absurd world
>all that counts are the sectarian paper wars of die-hard
>advocates of state capitalism..
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>As is clear from the above and everybody  who have
>followed Scotts consistent advocacy of class 
>collaboration -- including with Nazis -- on this list, Scott
>supports workers serving as cannon fodder in capitalist
>wars, so as to defend "their" capitalist regimes. The Iraqi
>workers in 1991 were not as stupid to follow Scott's
>absurd advice to defend capitalism and their butchers
>in the Bath regime. They deserted and turned their
>weapons the other way as soon as they got a change.
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>The refer to "anti-imperialist parts of their own bourgeoisie"
>in regards to imperialist Bathist Iraq is even more absurd
>than usual, but not surprising coming from a Stalinist position.
>(That he calls it Trotskyism does not change the substance.)
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>What Scott is doing on list supposed to promote
>working class self-emancipation -- and not state
>capitalism and Stalinist policies -- is beyond me.
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>If Scott is not removed from this list I will remove
>myself. I will no longer be part of giving his particular
>form of antihuman and anti-working class policies
>legitimacy.
>        He is *consciously,* *systematically* and
>*manipulatively* changing the whole character of this list
>following an old and tried Stalinist tradition.
>        Somewhere a line has to be drawn!
>        Communists/anarchists have nothing in common with Stalinist!
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>Harald
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