Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:04:00 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: COCKROACH! #39


COCKROACH! #39

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1, Reply to a Russian Communist!

2. Sweden-Banks Love Social Democratic Traitors!

3. Special Announcement!

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Reply to a Russian Communist!

>Robert Malecki wrote:
>
> 
>> The former Soviet Union was not just crimes of horror but a line of peaceful
>> co-existence and counter-revolutionary to the core. It has been expressed in
>> the number of defeats that have taken place around the world. 

Vladimir replies;
>If the Soviet Union was indeed "counter-revolutionary to the core" than 
what was
>the Nazi Germany, Eltsyn's Russia, or the US?  The point is not the theoretical
>ignorance of this definition but its profanation of language. We need to be 
wary
>of this lest we run out of words and make rational discourse impossible.

If you mean the "counter-revolutionary" it is hardly profane but a fact! 
Trotsky used those words after the historical defeat in Germany and called 
for the building of the Fourth International!
>
>If the legacy of the Soviet Union was but a "number of defeats," we have to 
>include in them the "defeats" like the victories of Vietnamese and Cuban 
peoples,
>and perhaps, the survival of the Chinese revolution,
>the containment of the US imperialism for almost half a century, the defeat
>of Fascism, the peaceful existence of a few generations of Soviet people (a 
group
>of humanity numbering from 150 to 300 million people at a time) who have 
been able
>to enjoy freedom from elemental want, daily anxiety, and Darwinian 
competition that
>remain the lot of billions. Well, if all this is called defeat, I am a 
defeatist
>and I think a large part of those billions are too.

Yes! We certainly do have to count the defeats! The victory of the 
Vietnamese Revolution was a military victory and a great feat carried out by 
the Vietnamese people. But it was a political defeat for the Vietnamese 
people and especially the working class. In fact a *real* Communist 
leadership would have tried to extend the revolution thoughout South East 
Asia. And the great military victory and gains made are in deadly danger 
because of the Stalinist leadership in Vietnam. That is why Trotskyist call 
for a political revolution to oust the Stalinists!

The Cuban Revolution was also a great military victory and a deformed 
workers state was created! But this revolution is also in danger because of 
the Cuban leadership. And for the same reasons that we call for a political 
revolution in Vietnam we also do in Cuba. Because these revolutions are 
endangered because of the leadership. Futhermore neither of these 
revolutions nor the Chinese revolution gave the working class political 
power but were deformed from their very inception.

The Chinese revolution took place despite the Stalinists and in the face of 
the relative weakness of the imperialists after the second world war. In 
fact if Vlad reads a little history on the Chinese revolution and Trotsky 
>from as early as 1924-25 he would see what this "victory" has cost the 
Chinese Proletariat. Naturally the question comes to mind and I pose it 
directly. Have their been victorious Proletarian revolutions in these 
countries? My answer is NO. No, because of the politics of the 
counter-revolutionary Stalinists!

The containment of American Imperialism! Ha, What a joke! That so called 
containment meant selling out *real* revolutions! Vietnam being a great 
example of the Stalinist policy. And your "detante" has got you into the 
situation that the former Soviet Union and for example the Russian Coal 
Miners find themselves today! In fact this period gave Imperialism the 
chance to survive, grow and smash the degenerated workers state in the 
former Soviet Union. Is this the stage theory going backwards Vlad?

And to say that the Stalinists defeated the Nazi's is a skandal! The 
Stalinists put the Nazi.s in power! Destroyed the German Proletariat and are 
responsible for the Nazi's occupying nearly half of the former Soviet Union! 
It was the Red Army and the millions upon millions of workers who in the 
Soviet Union  defeated the Nazi's! Hats off to the Red Army! The Stalinists 
are counter-revolutionary traitors. There policies in Germany put one of the 
biggest Communist Parties in the world outside of the Soviet Union into the 
concentration camps and you are sayin that they defeated the Nazis! Bullshit...

And the last about living in peace. Really! Who's blood was it that gave the 
Russians this so called peace! The millions upon millions of people 
Internationally who found themselves under the yoke of Imperialism or the 
Stalinists who supported just about any kind of Bougeois Nationalist regime 
in the world against the poor and working class. That was the real bottom 
line of your peace. The Russian Stalinists have the blood of millions on 
their hands. The suffering and starving was a direct product of political 
support to the stage theory of revolution in the third world. Linked to the 
line of "Socialism in one country..."

And what has that fake peace done! It has put the proletariat in the former 
Soviet Union under the yoke of the capitalists again! In fact your peace was 
a direct betrayal and has made the situation ten times as worse for the 
present proletariat living in the former Soviet Union and for the millions 
upon millions who live in other parts of the world. Instead of a bulwark for 
the International proletariat in the former Soviet Union we have a 
capitalist counter revolution. I hope you choke on your coffee and your 
illusions of peace!

Bob M. wrote;
>> However I do agree with you in one sense. The word now! In another letter on
>> the subject you say that people don,t give a shit about the former Soviet
>> Union. OK I can understand that. 

Vlad replies;
>I wonder, who are those people? Do they include Indian peasants or Brazilian
>workers? Is there any meaningful difference between what the Soviet Union meant
>and still means for them and, say, the public that fills up international
>conferences of the Left?  The other day I talked to a black postal worker who
>has been interested in all things Soviet almost from his childhood.  From time
>to time I meet common people like him: a former Navy sailor, a taxi driver, a 
>lawer. They do not know anything about the Left, its conferences and 
>"regroupments." They would not understand a word from this message by 
>Robert Malecki. But every time I listen to them I realize that if there 
>something in their imagination that goes beyond the seemingly everlasting
>present of the capitalist order, a flick of hope, if you want, that an 
>entirely different and better world is possible - it is the material 
>historical existence of the SU and their memory of it. And if they often
>dismiss the no less real, tragic aspects of this history as merely bourgeois
>propaganda, they are more sensible, more intuitively right in their very
>"blindness" than the most theoretically impeccable and sterile products
>of its left critique.  True, they idealize the Soviet experience, but unlike
>the ideal constructs of the Left, theirs rests on the indisputable 
>reality that has positive existential value for them. They know that
>common people like themselves were protected from unemployment, humiliating
>poverty and inequality, universal prostitution and the daily degradation of
>their humanity. For them then the SU stood as a symbol of their hope without
>which the masses cannot have the will to struggle or even morally survive.
>Unlike the Left, the masses know this and that's why they will continue
>to silently defend themselves against the nihilistic effects of its 
>denunciations.

Incredible! Why don't you tell that to the Russian Coal miners! Or why not 
the Cuban workers or the Africans! I doubt that they would understand your 
arguement. And their is a big difference about patiently explaining to 
people that might idealize this kind of stuff and what the concrete 
political reallty of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union means 
because of the rotten Stalinist politics. The Trotskyists have for decades 
warned for what the Stalinist leadership meant for the Russian and world 
proletariat! And your ideals will not help one of these people who you feel 
sympathy with! Because in the final analisis it is either the dictatorship 
of the bougeoisie or the dictatorship of the Proletariat which is the 
central question. In fact what you are doing here Vlad is sinking to the 
lowest common denominator of "idealism" instead of confrontating the 
political situation that the Stalinists and reformists have put poor and 
working class people into. Today the poor and working class are in reality 
not being nostagic nor "idealist". In fact they are confused and enraged 
while being beheaded of a political leadership where the capitalist and 
imperialist are going to attack all across the board to take back all of the 
gains since the great October Revolution! It was the October Revolution 
which was the basis for where the world poor and working class finds itself. 
And the present situation which is horrible is because of the 
counter-revolutionary Stalinists that have betrayed the poor and working 
class of the world and with their politics have handed the gains of the 
great October Revolution into the hands of the capitalists and Imperialists!

>I know only of one German "revolution" in 1940, that of the Nazis.
>

In Germany it was a "revolution" that was going on. And it was the 
counter-revolutionary politics of the Stalinists that garanteed the victory 
of the Nazis. For the line of "Socialism in one Country" the Stalinists have 
the blood that was shed by the entire German Proletariat!

And finally and most important of all Vlad! Communists and in this case the 
authodox Trotskyists are the memory bank and the historical revolutionary 
leadership of the world Proletariat. Our fight is the historical struggles 
and documents of the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Lenin and 
Trotsky, The first Four Congresses of the Third International, The Left 
Opposition and the creation of the Fourth International! This is our history 
and our struggle in the *real* interests of the Proletariat against the 
reformists and Stalinists traitors who with their politics are responsible 
for where the Proletariat finds itself today. It is our duty to continue 
this great historical struggle and our cry to the world Proletariat is 
"Never Again" the politics of these traitors who arecovered with the blood 
of all of the historical defeats imposed on the working class because of 
their rotten politics. Only in forging a revolutionary International which 
openly and honestly tells the historical truth to the International 
Proletariat and with a *real* political program recruits the most advanced 
elements of the Proletarian vanguard to this reforged revolutionary 
International and fughting for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 
everywhere can garantee that these traitors never again get the reins of 
leadership in their hands!

Put the reformists and Stalinist traitors on the garbage heap of history!

Forward To a Revolutionary Trotskyist-Communist International!
Bob Malecki
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Sweden-Banks Love Social Democratic Traitors!
Yesterday, December 12,1996 was won of the blackest days in the history of 
the Swedish workers movement. Every worker,every Socialist,Every Communist 
should remember this day not only as the day when the Social Democratic 
traitors in the government and parliment pushed through the new anti-trade 
union legislation,but the day when these Socialist traitors sold the state 
controlled "Hypotek's Bank" which controls 35% of the homeloan market in 
Sweden to the Handelsbank and is the largest financial affair in the history 
of Sweden involving billions upon billions of crowns. We must also remember 
that these traitors are the same people who along with the previous 
conservative government just a few years back layed out how many hundreds of 
billions of crowns of the workers tax money to bail these very same banks 
out of the financial crisis of the glad 80ties. The price of bailing out 
those banks which had invested in overpriced property and cultural objects 
is the over 1 million people in Sweden who now live outside of the ordinary 
work market. Many as second and third class citizens who have to beg for 
money from the welfare department each month just to survive. 

First the Social Democratic traitors in the government save the banks by 
running up a deficit in foreign loans in foreign banks for hundreds of 
billions of crowns of the tax payers money-then they turn around and sellout 
the state owned bank to the private banks in order to pay back the deficit 
run up in foreign banks to save these very same capitalists robbers in the 
private banks! Not only that it also means that the private banks take over 
the loans of many upon many of the people who were thrown out of their jobs 
and onto the street in unemployment lines and welfare lines. Now these 
people who are responsible for all of this control the paper on our homes 
and apartments and if you don't pay because you no longer have a job these 
same capitalist crooks who got us into all of this trouble will be throwing 
poor and working class people out of their homes and onto the street!

The loyal trade union bureaucracy and the left in Sweden has been completely 
silent on this outrageous stickup (robbery) of a state owned bank! In fact 
these trade union leaders are allowing this to happen! The trade union 
bureaucracy is loyally being quiet as the Social Democratic traitors in the 
government get away with one of the biggest crimes in history directed at 
state owned property which controls 35% of the homeloan market and is being 
given to the very same banks who's financial policies during the 80ties led 
to the situation that tens and hundreds of thousands of us are on the dole! 
Yes! Remember this day well!

Real Socialists and Communist should demand that this robber sellout of the 
statebank be stopped! Expropriate the private banks instead and get back the 
money and jobs that they have stold from the millions upon millions of 
workers in this country. Get rid of these Socialist Traitors in the 
government and throw out the loyal trade union bureaucrats that have quietly 
supported the governments incredibly anti worker pro boss and pro bank 
politics! We must seriously begin to think about a workers movement and 
organisation which can and must organise to win the next election and throw 
out these traitors, but a program which will take the power out of the 
Capitalists bosses and bankers hands and into the hands of a real workers 
government.

Going on to the anti-trade union laws that were passed yesterday. A law 
which was purposed and supported by the Social Democratic parlimentry group 
and their bougeois allies in the center party. Every parlimentry 
representative who voted for this new law, which gives the bosses once again 
the right to hire and fire as they please and has taken away the most 
important principle "Last in-first out" out of the hands of the trade 
unions, must never again get one vote from any worker, Socialist or 
Communist! And the loyal trade union supporters of the government who both 
silently watched and openly tried to sabotage the mass mobilizations of 
workers against this stuff must be thrown out of the leadership of the 
unions. A new leadership must come forward both in the trade unions and in 
the parliment who's only loyalty is in the interests of the poor and working 
class in this country!

The last years developments both in Sweden and Internationally are not a 
slump. It is a direct result of a International bougeoisie who after the 
disintegration of the Soviet Union has declared war on their own working 
class all across the line. In Sweden this is represented by the dramatic 
downturn in the government searching for Russian submarines and turning 
around and torpedoing the Swedish working class. What we are seeing is class 
war of the 20ties and 30ties again and don't be surprised if Adalen 31 will 
once again be on the order of the day as workers begin to realize what is 
going on and start organising to combat these socialist traitors.

And the poor and working class people in this country are beginning to wake! 
There is a growing rage, a growing movement which says "That is it!, No 
More!" And they are right! Together we must begin to organise a movement 
both in the trade unions and on the streets and in the parliment, in fact 
everywhere. We have to  organise against not only the bosses and their 
organisations, but the Socialist traitors in the parliment and the trade 
unions that have leaped into the arms of the bankmen and capitalist arms and 
betrayed every principle and the class that they for decades have led in 
this country.

We must go forward and reclaim everything of the welfare state that these 
traitors have either sold out or given away to private capitalists and the 
banks. And we must extend the welfare state and prevent it from ever getting 
back into the hands of these Socialist traitors and the banks.

There for we need a party and trade unions that will go forth and not only 
win the next election but have a program that will expropriate the 
expropriaters who have literally plundered the welfare state and enriched 
themselves! Well, a real party and real trade union leadership must go 
bravely forward with a program that takes it all back in the interests of 
the whole people. 

And a party that not only wants to "Save Sweden" but is Internationalist and 
realizes that the coffee and breakfast meetings with the Swedish government 
and the American dipomat Brookes is nothing other then more misery for 
millions upon millions of people in the Third World but also the Baltic 
States and Poland. It is Swedish and American banks and their capitalist 
friends that are once again enslaving Polish seamastresses and Russian Coal 
Miners! It is the world bank and Swedish and American banks that keep 
millions upon millions of people in the third world on the verge being 
erased through mass starvation. These are the same people who have thrown 
out tens of hundreds of Swedish workers on the dole and many who won't have 
money to but Chrtistmas presents for their kids this year.So the struggle 
going on is and International struggle against a common enemy!

So remember this day well! Remember that the bosses, the banks, the 
Socialist traitors in the parliment and the leadership of the trade unions 
have declared war on you and your family along with millions upon millions 
of other poor and working class families around the world!

And the only way we can stop them is by getting it together and organising 
ourselves and throwing them out of power. Expropriating the banks who have 
stolen 
our money and the state intitutions that the workers payed for in 
generations to build up! Because in the final analisis it is either us or 
them! It is either win or die or starve to death on the handouts leftover 
>from these capitalist robbers and the Socialist traitors who are giving it away!

Yes! Remember it well and forward to a new worker Socialist Communist 
International that will go all the way this time!


Warm Regards
Bob Malecki
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

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