Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 08:03:28 +0100 (MET) From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) Subject: Re: M-I: The fortune-cookie farewells of Rob Schaap Charlie writes; > I wasn't going to dignify Louis G's ramblings with a reply, but >there is one flat-out lie in there that needs nailing. The Socialist Review >Group (as it was then) *never* supported the American war in Korea. What >they argued (and we stand by it today) was that the war was one between two >rival puppet armies backed by the two main imperialist powers - the USA and >the USSR - and that socialists should support neither side. It was not a >war of national liberation - unlike the war in Vietnam. It was - and is - a >controversial position on the left, but discussion about it isn't helped by >lying. > Incidentally, "West of the Riviera"? is this an arcane American >insult I'm not familiar with, or a misunderstanding of European geography? > I agree Chartlie! Godena should not lie about your position even if it is hair raising! I was always under the assumption that the Korean war was between the Americans and Koreans mainly backed up by the Chinese red army and not the Russians. Naturally Trotskyists were for the military victory of the Koreans and Chinese over the Americans despite the Stalinists. Your no side position is in fact and abstention from class struggle! And your methodology of the state caps or Maoists appears to oversee the fact that the so called liberation war by the Vietnamese was quite heavily backed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese although no ground troops like in the Korean theater. And that the Vietnamese were and are just as much Stalinist as either the russians or the Chinese and historically have a lot of blood on their hands. However your position is reactionary in that you say a plague on both your houses when it comes to the cookie jar. Warm Regards Bob Malecki ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- Check Out My HomePage where you can, Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! Or Get The Latest Issue of, COCKROACH, a zine for poor and workingclass people HTTP://WWW.ALGONET.SE/~MALECKI If The links are not working you can write to me >from my home page and get the latest issue of COCKROACH! -------------------------------------------------------- --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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