Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:17:04 -0500 From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings) Subject: M-G: Refreshing revisionists memories It is good to continue to refresh the memories of the revisionists who today pose as "honest communist" but who formerly spent years defending Brezhnev and Gorbachev in every way possible. These people always bank on others having just as short a memory as themselves and shamelessly as always are today the official Internet attorneys for the renegade revisionist Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro - you ought to remember - is the "socialist" leader who loved his dear "sister" Indira Gandhi, the intimate friend of Alberto Fujimori, the loyal partner of Franco's Fascist Spanish camarilla, and the greatest oppressor of, and traitor to, the revolutionary Cuban people. Castro, is the man who is prepared to sell out the Cuban people to US imperialism with the assistance of the reactionary Pope Wotjila. That is just another "socialist cause" like Gorbechev's that these revisionist attorneys will continue defending until the very last possible moment. That is why in the old LeninList - when that list was led according to Marxist principle by revolutionaries - the revisionist Castro was exposed to the chagrin of all opportunist and windbags of whatever denomination. Below another trip down that memory lane from the archives of the debate on Castroism in the old Leninlist. History has confirmed everything we said then proving in practice that our theoretical analysis was and continues to be right on the dot!: CASTRO: LIGHT FOR THE POPE, DARKNESS FOR THE PEOPLE Matthew Campbell writes reporting from Washington: "Whether or not the comandante reaches for his rosary in January, Havana will feel the benefit: such is the importance being attached to the Pope's visit that, FOR THE DURATION, Castro has DECREED there must be LIGHT. Cubans will be guaranteed a respite from the power cuts that blight their lives". Contrast that "revolutionary socialist policy" not only with the manner in which in two occassions the genuine proletarian revolutionaries of Peru have "received" Wotjila and his chatter about "lambs lying down with lions", "peace with social justice" and such like: Blowing up the electricity pylons along the entire backbone of energy supply for the country and blackening the capital while Wotjila's landing plane was greeted by a gigantic flaming fire in the form of a hammer and sickle. Contrast it with comrade Stalin's own rejection when the allied leaders wanted to include Wotjila's predecessor Pope Pious in joint negotiations: "How many divisions has the Pope got?" In other words, revolutionary leaders can meet with the leaders of the reactionary camp when concrete questions of power - war and peace - are being decided. From one power to another. What has the Pope got to do with political power? Nothing. He is the representative on earth of an "spiritual power", the power of reactionary obscurantism, the power of the ideology of reaction and submission to the powerful. There is nothing for a genuine socialist country to be gained from an "spiritual" accomodation with the ideology of reaction, on the contrary, as history has proven it, the giving of a platform to Wotjila is but a consequence of ideological surrender to the "spiritual powers" of the ruling classes, and a prelude to the restoration of all the trappings of bourgeois society at the super-structural level. It is no accident that Wotjila's tours in Eastern Europe were in fact shortly followed by the outright capitulation of the restorationist renegade revisionist in those countries and the overt triumph of reaction and obscurantism in that part of the world. Clutching at straws, the apologists of Cuban revisionism have tried to equate this counter-revolutionary collusion between Castro and Wotjila, the standard-bearer of the most anti-communist ideology, with the necessary and concrete contacts and negotiations undertaken by Lenin and Stalin regarding the survival of the Soviet State and the need to keep the imperialist war away from Soviet territory for as long as possible. No wonedr then that Castro, when asked by Dan Rather earlier this year in American Television News whether he was worried that history would treat him as "another Stalin", the renegade responded with his characteristical modesty: "I am more like Christ", going on to describe himself as a "redeemer sent to save Cuba from poverty and despair". And to remember too one of the infamous "Thoughts of Fidel Castro" being promoted together with the rest of his kilometric rantings by the Chinese "Joint-stockholder socialists": "I believe Karl Marx would have subscribed to the Sermon of the Mount"! Is that their "Marxist-Leninist proletarian leader"? Sounds to me like the most absurd slander on Karl Marx. Count me out please from such a "proletariat" as castro may belong to. The proletariat is not a flock of sheep, nor does this class stand in need of redeemers or "Christs" to preach at them the condescending saviour and do-gooders ideology of the Sermon of the Mount: "Peace on earth to all men of good will". It is clear that come January, Castro is to show himself alongside his long sought and finally encountered Living "Marx" on Earth: The preacher Wotjila and his Sermon from Mount Havana!: Teach the ignorant, dress the naked, bury the death, feed the hungry, console the suffering, because the poor will always be with you! - that is the ideology of the Sermon of the Mount, and that, according to Castro, is what Marx would have subscribed to!. Ours is the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat, bequathed to us by Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Chairman Mao. Ours is an ideology of revolutionary overthrow, of harnessing and organising poverty for the overthrow of opression and exploitation, not for acts of charity and the distribution of alms. What do we have in common with that ideology of consolation and "alms giving"? We are communist fighters for the abolition of class society, not a tropical version of the Good Samaritan, nor Marxian socialism has anything in common with clerical rubbish! Adolfo Olaechea --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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