Originally posted by
[email protected] 29 2004, 01:57 AM
The way you are constantly using the term "political correctness" reaveals you to be on the right-wing in a lot of your views in social questions, you are far away from any emancipated, leftist stance.
If having common sense makes me a "right-winger" then so be it. Im interested in improving conditions for the working class and the oppressed, not looking for a label to identify myself with. It just so happens that I don't support one form of genocidal imperialism over another and that I don't believe Jews have the right to oppress another ethnicity and get away with it just because they were oppressed in the past. Go on supporting the ethnic cleansing going on in the Middle East and believing every single piece of western propaganda thrown at you (then ask yourself who here is the right-winger). Don't expect any sympathy from me, the working class or the oppressed, though.
But that is nothing new, and common phenomenon among you Stalinists. most of you are leftist only on the surface, and deeply conservative within.
*yawn* more BS about "Stalinists." You cant seem to make more than two or three posts without name-calling and bringing up the Stalin issue. Isn't it a bit of a double-standard that we would be restricted for generalizing and calling someone a Trot/Hippie/Anarchist?
Also, your unhistorical, inappropriated, unsensible and just disgusting Nazi-Isreal comparison reveals you to be a critc from a right-wing perspective, not a left-wing. The Nazi-Isreal comparison is usually made by the radical right to play down the Nazi crimes, and to make culprits out of victims. And you, my friend, buy into it with a lot of ease. There is NOTHING what Isael and Nazi Germany have remotely in common, there is no industrialized killing of a while ethnic group, nor are there any other characteristics of a fascist state.
Wow, so the radical right tries to use Israel's crimes to down-play Nazi crimes. I don't, so what's your point? That is a very weak argument for my "right-wingedness." New Leftists are usually worthless, pot-smoking, liberal hippies, would you like it if I called you one? I use the Nazi-Zionist comparison to point out that the west (particularly the US) is supporting racism while claiming to fight it. Israel may not be socio-economically "fascist" that dosen't mean it isn't racist. Ariel Sharon as well as the right-wing Likud party have an agenda to expel all Palestinians from "Israel" and Hafia supports putting the Palestinians in ghetto's with no civil rights (gee, what does that remind you of?). The Zionists use the same types of propaghanda the Nazis did to make it unacceptable to oppose them, using the accusation of "anti-semitism" the same way the Nazis used the accusation of "anti-German" and that the neo-Nazis use the accusation of "anti-white" and portraying Jews as victims in every situation much as Nazis did with germans and neo-nazis do with white people. Israel more is more comparable to South Africa than Nazi Germany, but is that somehow acceptable?
Yes, I do support the right of Isael to exist, now I'm probaply an evil, zionist traitor for you. But for me Auschwitz has shown that there ha to be a Jewish state which secures the welfare of the Jewish people, as ong as there is anti-semitism, there have to be a Jewish state. Of course I do Isael in it's current form, and with it's current politics towards the Palestinians, but that doesn't stop me to see a "neccessary evil" in Isael.
Do explain how Auzwitz has "shown" that there is a "need" for a Jewish state? You are saying that by self-segregation and occupation of a foreign territory in the third world, relations between Jews and other ethnicities will improve? That argument boarders on racism and the notion that "if you don' know them, you can't hate them." After WW2, anti-semitism as an establishment ceased to exist. Jews are no longer an "oppressed people" in whatever communities they live in and now form part of the oppression by the west over the third world in the form of Israel. I support the existance of Israel now because it is not feasible to make such a mass mobilization after over 50 years of its existance (though it should be defeated, disarmed and pushed back a respectable ammount of territory for any hope of "peace" in the Middle-East), but it was not a necessary creation in the first place.
Concerning your still stupid ""the enemy of my enemy is my friend" moral, it lacks of logic, you haven't convinced me at all. Where will you draw the line, if you say that if the enemy of your enemy might be your enemy too? Why have such a moral at all than? What is making a friend out the enemy of the enemy"? How reactionary can he be? I don't see any need to have such a moral at all, if you say by yourself it isn't a universal logic, because the enemy of your enemy" can be your enemy as well, if he's too blatantly and obvious on the wrong side.
If you didn't take everything so literally, you would understand that what I mean by "enemy of an enemy is my friend" is siding with someone that has both an agenda closer to your own and has less a chance of becoming a dangerous world power. That being said I don't believe Aristide is perfect, but his opposition is backed by imperialism which is more dangerous and obviously has an agenda antagonistic towards mine, so I support him.
BTW: As a radical leftist, your "favorite enemy" shoudn't be a single nation, a person or a ethnic group, it should be the whole, inhuman system of capitalism, or at least the ruling class. But I know, in your simplistic, narrow-minded and totally anti-semitic view, the Jews are the ruling class, "the eploiters of the working class", which once again reveals on which side you actually are.
Jews are part of the ruling class, I never said it consisted solely of them. Being a radical leftist also includes fighting racism and imperialism, that is why I am staunchly anti-Zionist. If you are an anti-racist and an anti-imperialist and you are not brainwashed by western propaghanda, you should be too.