Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:16:21 -0400
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-I: A time to Di -- The Floral Revolution


Dear Jim,

I tend to disagree with you about the Di stuff being a victory for the 
monarchy. I just read a very long but good article by Alan woods that the 
Socialist Appeal people have up at there Web site "living Marxism". I 
suggest you read it and give us your impressions. In fact perhaps one of the 
moderaters could go pick up the entire article and post it to the list. 
Because it not only is linked to just the Di thing but the mass 
discontentment in Europe in general which has expressed itself in some very 
strange ways. Belgium and the homophil stuff. Spain and the reaction to the 
ETA murder recently and linking it to the mass discontent deep down in the 
heart of the masses who are being attacked all across the line after the 
demise of the Soviet Union and in England with over 20 years of Tory rule. 
Connecting this stuff to the political apathy and desperation albeit still 
under the surface. It also points out how well aware the ruling class was of 
the dangers of the masses getting out of control because when that happens 
the whole fucking show for them is in danger if they are no longer calling 
the shots. 

Unfortunately the article although correct in its thrusts draws all the 
wrong political conclusions. Thus they see this as a possibility to 
rejuvinate labor and the trade unions rather then building a Bolshevik party 
in England. 

I also think that they under estimate the political meaning of middle class 
dissappointment with the Winsors. In fact as I have said earlier the 
underlying motions  by the masses in this stuff can in fact at this point go 
any way including the rise and victory of a fascist party in Britain..

And finally it shows that the times in fact are going to be quite exciting 
in the future one way or the other..

Warm regards
Bob Malecki
This is the final draft on Korea taped for Straightfacts Radion
on Saturday, August 24, 1997.

Warm regards
Bob Malecki

Good Evening.  This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts
somewhere in northern Scandinavia quite near the Polar Circle!

North Korea!  Millions starve as Imperialism plays a cynical
game of Russian Roulette!

Literally millions of people (especially children) are starving to
death today in the North Korean deformed Workers State today.
In fact reports here in Europe are saying that this catastrophe
can be bigger than the numerous catastrophes that have
repeatedly hit the African continent in the last two decades 
where tens and hundreds of thousands of children died off
when all that was left was skin and bones plus bloated
stomachs.

And the imperialist powers are gleefully wringing their hands
and making political demands on the North Korean Stalinist
bureaucracy (not in the least on its nuclear capabilities) using
these millions of starving children as bullets in their cynical
game of Russian roulette! All of this has one fundamental, basic
line -- and that is to destroy the North Korean deformed
workers state and carry out a capitalist counter-revolution
against North Korea linked to reuniting the Koreas on a
capitalist basis and closing the ring on the other deformed
workers state in this part of the world -- China.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has suffered three
disastrous years of crop failures due to floods and drought, but
also years of Stalinist counter revolutionary mismanagement,
connected to building "socialism in one country" and not in the
least the bizarre situation of raising the now dead Kim Il Sung
on a pedestal close to god -- all of  which has brought this
country and in fact possibly its neighboring country China to the
brink of capitalist counter-revolution!

In fact going back a few decades one could say that Korea and
the Korean war were the catalyst to fulfillment of the deformed
Chinese Revolution led by Mao Tse Tung.  It was only after the
declaration of war against Korea, that China and its faithful
Mao-Stalinist servants to the stage theory of revolution were
forced to expropriate the bourgeoisie and large landowners
under the threat of an imperialist invasion onto the Chinese
mainland over Korea and imperialist blockade of this country
(much like the blockade of Cuba today).

These were the days of imperialist talk of the "yellow peril" and
for us who remember America under the McCarthyite
witchhunters, weekly atomic bomb air raid drills to the tune of
"The Russians are coming" and the National Anthem after the
all clear signal.

This by the way was one of the greatest experiments in
Pavlovian conditioning of my generation who later on would be
sent to Vietnam to wipe out the "Gooks",To today where after
the destruction of the Soviet Union imperialism/capitalism has
declared war on ALL poor and working class people.


Today with the destruction of the Soviet Union the capitalist
ruling classes are on the offensive everywhere and letting North
Korean children starve to death in order to destroy the
deformed workers state.

It's basically the same line that the ruling class in America have
towards their own poor and working class.

The recent workfare/welfare "reform" which basically tells
millions of people in America to starve to death is the same
tactic that imperialism at present is using against millions of
starving children in North Korea. In North Korea it is a question
of destroying the deformed revolutions that came out of World
War 2 in this part of the world including Vietnam where as
in America the starve to death tactic is being used as an
instrument to drive down wages and destroy the trade unions,
connected to destroying all of the gains made by the working
class in this century!

In Europe this tactic of starving people to death is not only
directed at the North Koreans, but in fact having their own
working classes on bread lines and soup lines!  This was
detailed in my recent report on Finland!

They're doing this while at the same time letting millions of
people starve to death in countries in Africa.

And if you don't like starving to death like in Somalia a few
years ago, we will send in UN "peace keeping" forces and
American helicopter gunships to wipe you off the face of the
map! Not to mention raising a "festung" European wall against
immigrants in the third world and deporting hundreds of
thousands back to certain misery, starvation, and possible
death!

In all of these cases Bolshevik Leninists/Trotskyists stand
squarely on the side of the millions of people who will die an
early death in order to appease the imperialists' appetite for
profits and markets. In the case of the North Korean deformed
workers state we stand unconditionally on their side against
imperialist attacks -- in this case the tactic of mass starvation
which in fact is provoking the very real possibility of a new
Korean War and possible third world war involving China.

At the same time we do not give one ounce of political support
to the Stalinist regimes in North Korea or China.  We fight for workers
political revolution to oust the counter-revolutionary
Stalinist regimes and spreading revolution and the
expropriation of the capitalist/imperials in this part of the world.
Not in the least connected to a Social revolution in Japan..

So in a sense it is not rice or food stamps that starving North
Koreans and poor and working class people in America need.
Albeit Bolshevik/Leninists naturally say open the warehouses
and use the food not only for the starving North Koreans, but
the starving poor and working class in America and the
third world.

But what is really needed is a Bolshevik/Leninist Trotskyist
revolutionary International which can lead the North Korean and
Chinese workers in a political revolution to oust the counter-
revolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy.

And in America as well as Japan, parties which can smash the
imperialist/capitalist regimes through social revolution -- setting
up a "New World Order" where poor and working class people
become the rulers and see that everybody has enough to eat, a
decent place to sleep, clean water, and a decent place to take a
crap in!

This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts in Sweden.
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