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["Carla Krüger"]

Dear Jon,
I am often angered by your letters: of course, there was nothing worse than the fascist crimes. Do not use this fact to denigrate humanist socialist ideas. Too bad that we did not meet at the social forum to get things square. What do you think, for instance, about the right wingers getting back to power in Poland? In that connection, I always remember that Stalinism would have been half as bad if there had not been Hitler to make things worse for the USSR.
Best wishes, until, hopefully, the next ESF
Carla (Berlin)


"Jon Cloke" <damage61 at hotmail.com> schrieb:
> Martin,
> 
> It's a sad truth that some of the old left parties in Europe are no 
> different at all in their politics than extreme right-wingers like the 
> British Nationalist Party and the Fronte Nationale, but if those right-wing 
> parties had turned up to put up their banners as the organizer you spoke to 
> suggested they might, then I think you'd have found his/her answer to be 
> completely different...
> 
> Mass murder by communists is an altogether kinder, gentler and more 
> proletarian process, don't you see, and since communist parties are the only 
> genuine spokespeople for the proletariat and therefore the only source of 
> legitimate governance, then if they say it's alright to commit mass murder, 
> well then it is, OK?
> 
> And if you think it's bad now, you wait until the CPGBies/SWPies and all 
> their little friends get their way and change the charter so that a 
> hierarchy is constructed and they're allowed to participate as parties!
> 
> Jon Cloke
> 
> 
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