Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:29:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: The background of Rolf Martens


[Note: I tried to forward the "Klasber" article I saw on
a newsgroup here, together with the below reply,
yesterday (CET). But it seems the things didn't get across.
Meanwhile, "Klasber" himself seems to have posted his
stuff, so now I'm sending the below one more time.
Sorry if it gets in double. -RM]



Re: The background of Rolf Martens      [Posted: 18.08.96]


A 17.08.96 posting by "Klasber", which probably is short for 
"Klaus Sender, Berlin", the chairman of a political party which IMO 
once was a very good one indeed but which I since 1990 have 
found myself obliged to criticize publicly as no longer really 
trustworthy, calls for at least a brief comment on my part, I think. 

I'll here snip the Klasber article except for the introductory part. 

In article , klasber-AT-aol.com says... 

>ABOUT ROLF MARTENS 

>A man from the city of Malmoe, Sweden, Rolf Martens, a 
>former member of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT), keeps 
>publishing libels on our organization, at the same time 
>trying to give the impression that he still has some 
>connection with us, and is publishing articles and 
>unauthorized translations of publications by us without 
>our permission. 

>About him the following facts should be stressed: 


Tsk, tsk, citizens ex-comrades, I bloody well have *not* been 
trying, as everybody has been able to see too, to "give the 
impression" that I still have "some connection to you", other 
than the fact that, also after 1990, there has been some 
reciprocal exchange of information between us. I absolutely 
would not want to convey such a false impression either, since 
I from 1990 on have held the opinion that your party in reality 
is a bourgeois one and I have remained an adherent of the line 
of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong, which calls for the overthrow of the 
bourgeoisie throughout the world. 

Your position of claiming "copyright" for things to be posted on 
the Net I think is ridiculous, in particular for a party that 
pretends to be a "proletarian revolutionary" one. 

Certain earlier writings of yours, from the time when you were 
really what today you still pretend to be, IMO were very good 
indeed and even today deserve the greatest possible dissemination. 

Even that Chernobyl article you posted in German on 19.04 of this 
year and in English on 21.04, to this newsgroup, as now of course 
a bourgeois party, I hold to be a certain positive contribution on 
your part. 

Now that you finally have seen fit to emerge from that bunker in 
which you've been hiding since then, you will, as you well know, 
have to answer certain questions from a number of other people, 
if you intend to try to keep up that charade which you and I know 
you're playing nowadays. Let's see how you'll manage that. 

To other readers of this I would also like to point out: Not 
necessarily are those things you call "facts" which should be 
"stressed" true. One thing among them is true: I do speak only 
for myself. And I would like, also on my part, to stress that I 
by no means am speaking on behalf of your organization. 

At least it's a good thing, citizens, that you even today, with 
that character which your organization now has, at least in words 
are saying that you still are "nukes". 

Rolf M. 



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