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I’m not sure how many saw it because it was posted a while after my original July 23 posting of “The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime” (re-posted directly below), but someone anonymously posted: “World Can't Wait is a front of the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party.”
Even if only very few have seen the posting, I thought it worth discussing.
I’m not exactly sure what was meant by it. Is it simply saying that the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had a major part in calling for the November 2nd action? If so, that probably is true – as far as I can tell.
But what does the comment mean? Is it just a neutral, factual statement? Is it an endorsement? A criticism? It’s not exactly clear to me, but my guess is that it was meant as a criticism. I’m no expert on activist lingo, but in my experience, the term “front” has always seemed a negative term.
If that is the case, my answer is that if the views expressed in the “World” statement are accurate, helpful, or good in any way; it doesn’t matter who played a major role in expressing them. Whether Bush and Co. are good or bad isn’t determined by who supports or opposes them, but by what Bush & Co. are and do. The same holds for determining appropriate tactics to deal with Bush and his Neo-Coneheads.
NOT doing something because the RCP says to do it is as foolish as DOING something because the RCP says to. However, not doing something one knows is right because one doesn’t like whoever came up with the idea in the first place is worse than foolish!
Communists worked in the Civil Rights movement, and some racists tried to use that as an argument against the movement. Well if racism is wrong, and the RCP is against racism, racism isn’t suddenly OK.
J. Edgar Hoover tried to connect Dr. King to communists, as if that really meant something (you know . . . those godless communists just wanted to destroy the white man’s way of life).
Personally, I believe that almost all social advances have come about because the people demanded change – not because some nice person or group of people got elected, or because those in power decided out of the goodness of their heart to throw us a bone, or because the power of the facts, combined with honest argument, finally brought the privileged around .
Advances were made because the people forced less-than-nice people to do what they didn’t want to do. Following from that, whether not-nice people are forced to work for justice and peace by Methodists, Muslims, Jews, athiests,women, men, boy scouts, gays, minorities, socialists, vegetarians, or even COMMUNISTS, doesn’t matter to me.
I don’t claim to be an expert on the RCP, but I have read and reported on the autobiography of Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the RCP (re- posted 2nd spot below). Judging from that experience, I don’t think most Americans - especially us, my fellow central Ohioans - have a very objective or informed view of just what communism is.
In any case, based on my personal experience, I certainly don’t have any reason to criticize a good idea just because a communist might have thought it up.
- Uke Man
Dunkle's Digest: Judge ideas on their merit - not on what you think of the messenger.
Even if only very few have seen the posting, I thought it worth discussing.
I’m not exactly sure what was meant by it. Is it simply saying that the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had a major part in calling for the November 2nd action? If so, that probably is true – as far as I can tell.
But what does the comment mean? Is it just a neutral, factual statement? Is it an endorsement? A criticism? It’s not exactly clear to me, but my guess is that it was meant as a criticism. I’m no expert on activist lingo, but in my experience, the term “front” has always seemed a negative term.
If that is the case, my answer is that if the views expressed in the “World” statement are accurate, helpful, or good in any way; it doesn’t matter who played a major role in expressing them. Whether Bush and Co. are good or bad isn’t determined by who supports or opposes them, but by what Bush & Co. are and do. The same holds for determining appropriate tactics to deal with Bush and his Neo-Coneheads.
NOT doing something because the RCP says to do it is as foolish as DOING something because the RCP says to. However, not doing something one knows is right because one doesn’t like whoever came up with the idea in the first place is worse than foolish!
Communists worked in the Civil Rights movement, and some racists tried to use that as an argument against the movement. Well if racism is wrong, and the RCP is against racism, racism isn’t suddenly OK.
J. Edgar Hoover tried to connect Dr. King to communists, as if that really meant something (you know . . . those godless communists just wanted to destroy the white man’s way of life).
Personally, I believe that almost all social advances have come about because the people demanded change – not because some nice person or group of people got elected, or because those in power decided out of the goodness of their heart to throw us a bone, or because the power of the facts, combined with honest argument, finally brought the privileged around .
Advances were made because the people forced less-than-nice people to do what they didn’t want to do. Following from that, whether not-nice people are forced to work for justice and peace by Methodists, Muslims, Jews, athiests,women, men, boy scouts, gays, minorities, socialists, vegetarians, or even COMMUNISTS, doesn’t matter to me.
I don’t claim to be an expert on the RCP, but I have read and reported on the autobiography of Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the RCP (re- posted 2nd spot below). Judging from that experience, I don’t think most Americans - especially us, my fellow central Ohioans - have a very objective or informed view of just what communism is.
In any case, based on my personal experience, I certainly don’t have any reason to criticize a good idea just because a communist might have thought it up.
- Uke Man
Dunkle's Digest: Judge ideas on their merit - not on what you think of the messenger.
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