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2003-12-10 Fifth Column

Marxists Fisk Moonbats-"Nine Red Herrings: How the Western âLeftâ has Misread Iraq"

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Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-12-10 5:21:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When I first read the title, I thought it would be a diatribe against the "ninecompoops", as someone so adroitly named them. Now I'm not so sure it's about anything but how stupid anyone but a Marxist is. Geesh - after the huge loss the "movement" took in the fall of the Soviet Union, and the continuing swirl around and around the drainhole of China, NKorea, and Cuba, I think the "movement" needs to look in the mirror - surprise, surprise - a MOONBAT smiles back!

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-10 8:17:47 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-10 8:17:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Old Patriot,

Yeah, these guys do have some sense, but that makes it all the more reprehensible that they give lip service to a punk like Allende (a Stalinist-Castro wannabe) as a liberator. They do recognize that self-examination is necessary:

"Given the widespread popularity of capitalism and the vanishingly small support for socialism in the contemporary world, it would be stupid to expect anything more radical. On the other hand, as long as we are to be ruled by capitalist states, which would you rather be ruled by: a coalition of liberal democracies that pay at least lipservice to free speech, or any number of ruthless genocidal dictatorships that want to revive the worst aspects of the Middle Ages (and we donât mean folk songs or William Morris wallpapers)? "

...but my question is, "When eventually start shooting 'the capitalists,' when are you going to stop?"

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-12-11 3:46:48 AM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-12-11 3:46:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "you eventually start shooting"...not that I think that shooting even 1 "capitalist" is justified. The violent revolution they advocate is -never- going to lead to the goals they supposedly want, since that violence will consume the revolution from within.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-12-11 3:54:04 AM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-12-11 3:54:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 hmmm...great piece and all. But I can't figure out if this is a parody or not.

I suppose it could be a young fire-brand who has rebelled against his rigid Marxist upbringing - eager to keynote his own insight and superior intellect over his teachers.

In the end..the ideal of Marxism is such a joke, I guess it's all one in the same, isn't it?

Posted by B 2003-12-11 10:23:07 AM|| 2003-12-11 10:23:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 B,

No, they're serious, I think.

How they're going to have a revolution without undermining the things they claim to stand for is a freakin' mystery.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-12-11 12:50:41 PM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-12-11 12:50:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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