Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:29:42 -0400
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: Gorbachev, Castro and co.


dear friends,

Godena has put his foot in his mouth a 
number of times recently  but he is  bulls-eye on target
nailing those who would deny/restrict  other left trends the 
freedom to post their   political views & that of their trends.
As he stated well , the lefts sacred cows like the Castro 
regime, etc. are being dealt with here as they should be. 

Adolfo's stalinism should be refuted and pilloried. So should his
cover-ups for state capitalism in Stalins  Russia and Mao's China  
but in an honest and prinicpled political way.

Hot, but civilized polemics  are what can make lists
like these exciting and we can even help sort out
some of the vexed problems of political, economic.
ideological , tactical and strategic nature by opening
up and engaging  infromation and /or polemical fire
with other trends .


When the class motions heat up in all  bourgeois societies,
this is part of  good preparation to be more effectively involved
in the dabates in the heat of the next wave of mass class 
struggle.

Get ready to RRRRRuuumble!

Neil




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