Questions for David Milliband

[maskerade]

So this tool is coming to my uni to give a talk followed by a Q and A from students. I'd like to ask some questions about his complicity in the ongoing occupation in Afghanistan, but I figured some people here on revleft could provide some more eloquent questions, as I don't really want to stand there screaming "imperialist bastard" and "don't taze me bro" and be dragged out by security.

so, any ideas?

[Manic Impressive]

Ask him if he thinks his dad would be proud of his politics.

[Manic Impressive]

perhaps read up on Ralph a little bit I didn't read all of this but it seems quite good so far
http://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/1985/xx/beyondsd.htm

Finally, social democracy played a notable – and utterly dishonourable – role in the post-war decades in waging war, or in supporting the waging of war, against independence movements in the colonial territories of their countries. French social democracy was at the very centre of the murderous struggle waged against the independence movements in Indochina and Algeria, with names like Robert Lacoste and Guy Mollet forever inscribed in annals of shame and British social democracy was similarly involved in the struggles of the 1940s and 1950s in British colonial territories – in Malaya and Kenya, in Cyprus and Aden. Nowhere and at no time in those years did social democratic leaders anywhere in imperialist countries show any sign that they took the notion of socialist internationalism seriously.
In short, the record shows quite conclusively that social democracy has never posed any real threat to the structure of domination and exploitation of capitalist societies. Throughout, its leaders have clearly demonstrated that they have been concerned with the management of capitalism, not its supercession; and in the field of defence and foreign affairs, they have always been much more the colleagues of conservative politicians than their opponents. In practice, there has existed a very high degree of consensus on the broad lines of policy, based upon the acceptance by social democratic leaders of the policies of conservative governments: occasional disagreements on specific issues, however sharp, have not fundamentally disturbed this consensus. The point is particularly applicable to defence and foreign policy; but it is hardly less relevant in other fields as well.


Quote that to him and ask him what his response to it is, he may not even recognize it.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

God, right there, above, YES! Amazing how the Millibands have completely betrayed their father's values.