Re: <nettime> The Left Needs a New Strategy

[Andreas Broeckmann <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de>]

Dmytri, for me, the conversation stops here:

> However, as we all know, the government of China enjoys broad support
> from it's people.

> After all, by every measure they are doing better
> than we are in terms of getting what they want from their government.

I'm not in the "we" group of your first statement, and I doubt the 
second. (It's strange that you decline to know enough about prisoners, 
but this you are sure enough of for all of us, readers.) For someone who 
complains so much about people around him shouting (even if they 
aren't), you shout a lot... The self-declared Stalinists of the 
Marxistische Gruppe at my university in the 1980s sounded like this; and 
they were also always right, and kept on shouting until everybody was 
exhausted and the lecture was declared over. I always thought that 
Western Stalinists were people hopping between denial, apology, and 
assertion (at that time, with regard to the USSR, but exactly at the 
pitch you also choose to singsing).

If this was a conversation, I might ask what, in your view, is "Stalinism".

Regards,
-a


Am 18.01.21 um 22:03 schrieb Dmytri Kleiner:
> On 2021-01-18 21:09, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
>
> > i find it unbearable though to see untenable claims of "mccarthyism"
> > made against somebody who just stays in an argument, when anybody in
> > his right mind should know that we must reserve the "mccarthy"
> > reference to cases where livelihoods are threatened, or destroyed, of
> > people who speak their mind.
>
> But you didn't have an issue with the allegations of "stalinism" these 
> claims where made in response to.
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