Posted on 11/21/2004 11:54:07 AM PST by Snapple
(Communists who believe in Trotsky)
US media and liberal establishment: accomplices in the assault on Fallujah Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board 9 November 2004
A murderous operation is under way in Fallujah and the entire media and political establishment in the US is an accomplice in the crime. The unfolding massacre in the Iraqi city has failed to elicit an outcry, or even significant questioning of the assault, from these circles.
No editorialist at a major newspaper or television news commentator has even hinted at moral qualms over the American onslaught. Not one columnist at the New York Times or Washington Post thinks Fallujah worth mentioning. Last week’s Democratic Party presidential hopeful hasn’t a word to say.
This universal complicity is the symptom of a terminal malaise. The upper echelons of American society are hopelessly corrupted and morally decayed.
Even as thousands of marines poured into Fallujah in an attempt to eradicate the Iraqi resistance fighters, American commentators blandly spoke of the action as the most natural and uncontroversial of events. Here is a city, surrounded and cut off, whose male population between the ages of 15 and 50 faces being “put to the sword” by the US military, and no one in the media can stir himself to raise an objection.
The deliberate demolition of a major urban center by a great power is unlike anything since World War II. The phrases used by the media—warplanes and tanks are “softening the defenses;” the city of 300,000 is being “cleansed” of insurgents—are meant to conceal from the American public the true character of the assault: a homicidal operation aimed at destroying a major source of opposition to the colonialist US occupation and its puppet regime.
Wait a minute...are you referring to John Kerry and friends.
Such swine deserve the rope.
calling themselves Trotskyite doesn't do them any favors, he and Lenin invented 'state sponsored terrorism and repression on a large scale', Stalin simply copied and expanded it to levels even Hitler couldn't dream of.
Communism in theory is forced equality, however the leadership is (Animal-farmesque) more equal than others and any threat or supposed threat is ruthlessly put down. In reality communism will create a corporate police state.
Fascism is nominally different, even though it also finds roots in socialism. Fascism doesn't pretend to believe in equality, rather the contrary, also fascism can be equated with rabid nationalism. Fascism is also an pro-war ideology, in the sense that wars "purge" the weak from society permanently, Hitler once said he hoped that after his death the third reich Germany would have a war every generation or 2 in order to "purify". In reality fascism and communism hardly differ, except on the pretense of equality.
The US govenmental system could not be further from a fascist or communist model than it is.
We laugh, but they are widely read in the 3rd world I bet.
We know how bravely the Communist newspapers are in speaking out again their governments. Oh, their governments OWN their media...never mind.
An English proffesor friend of mine who is pretty liberal calls Lenin 'the architect of one-party rule'. Perhaps Trotsky gets off since he was out of there before he had a chance to preside over the gulags and is known today primarily as a writer.
So a marginal and irrelevant group bitches... do we really care?
I think they are read in other countries.
Don't be fooled.
Communists always called themselves progressives. That's not new.
Of course they are not progressives; they are reactionaries.
Remember these are Trotskyites. They think that if Trotsky had prevailed communism would have flourished and utopia would have long ago been ushered in.
Of course they are wrong, but I'm guessing if Trostky had won the day the commies would have "only" killed 10 to 20 million instead of twice or more than that..
I love that... "morally decayed"... it's amusing and bemusing to see that phrase from a commie pen... the Communist movements have massacred more human beings in the 20th century than all other movements -- in all other times -- combined.
True. But Trotsky was no prize either.
His only saving grace was that he split the communist movement and opened it up to dissent.
Definitely. Trotsky organized the Red Army, and prior to the rise of Stalin was the one everyone feared. Lenin reportedly did not want Stalin as the head of the Party -- but once that came about, Stalin had absolute power over who could and could not hold office (since only one party was permitted in office; that's the goal today of the so-called Democratic Party of the US).
Stalin showed Trotsky to be an amateur by getting Bukharin, Zhironovsky, et al to collude to remove all of Stalin's rivals one by one, until Bukharin was the only one remaining. Stalin himself accused, interrogated, and condemned Bukharin, but Bukharin had himself created the climate of paranoia and lawlessness, all the while doing Stalin's bidding without realizing the consequences (or perhaps not caring).
Oddly enough, there is still a small undercurrent of sympathy for Bukharin among the unreconstructed Marxist-Leninists. If only he had prevailed, Communism would not have become such an awful thing, stuck forever in the Leninist phase. Talk about fooling themselves...
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