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27
April 2005
Home-grown
vermin
Turns
out the Australian Communist Party has a weekly newspaper called The
Guardian.
Here's
an article praising
Joseph Stalin.
The
bulk of the Russian masses are, as The Sunday Times itself admits, "poverty-stricken
[and] disillusioned by market reforms and Western values". The
realisation that they were better off
under Soviet rule is making itself felt more and more.
Anti-Communist
and especially anti-Stalin propaganda
in Russia makes that in the West look insignificant. Yet in a recent
poll, fully a quarter of all respondents said they would vote for Stalin
if he were standing today.
Mark
Franchetti, describing a Communist demonstration in Moscow, something
that is rarely reported in our "free press", calls it "a
red sea of hammer-and-sickle flags". He interviews a 33-year-old
lawyer, Yuri Vassilyev, to make the point that it’s
not just old people who carry portraits of Stalin in
demonstrations.
The
increasing numbers of young people who take part are a worry for the
capitalists of both Russia and the West. As Vassilyev tells Franchetti,
"After years of lies about him [Stalin],
the truth is coming out".
[...]
But
it is not just Communists who are now giving Stalin a good rap. There
were ceremonies last December to mark the 125th anniversary of Stalin’s
birth, and at one of these, notes Franchetti, the Speaker of the Duma,
Boris Gryzlov, not only spoke but praised
Stalin "as a leader who had done much for his nation".
[...]
All
these moves have been greeted with shock and horror by propagandists
of the capitalist world.
These
propagandists and the political leaders of the main imperialist states
— USA, Britain, Germany — are applying all the pressure
they can on the Russians to make them drop their proposals for statues
and other forms of recognition of Stalin’s
war-time leadership.
[...]
Davies
should interview some of those "poverty-stricken Russians"
Franchetti mentioned. They could tell him of a few benefits
of Communist rule which they used to enjoy and would
like to be able to enjoy again.
You
think that was nauseating? Check out their gushing
praise of the Soviet prison and re-education system:
In
post-Civil War Russia, in the early '20s, the streets swarmed with waifs
and gangs of homeless children living on their wits. So serious was
the problem that Lenin gave the task of
rounding up these "wild" children to Felix Dzerzhinsky and
the Cheka (forerunner of the KGB).
To
the amazement of foreign observers, who saw the Cheka in terms of their
own anti-Soviet propaganda,
Dzerzhinsky's men and women did a splendid job of rescuing
kids off the streets. But what to do with them then?
The
answer was revealed in what became a Soviet classic, Road to Life by
Makarenko. It is the story of how he founded and ran for many years
a labour camp for juvenile delinquents
or "young offenders".
Makarenko's
approach was not to punish but to build up — in often very hostile
youngsters whom life had treated harshly — a
sense of their known worth and a pride in their own contribution to
the advancement of their society.
Lovely
people these communists.
On
the popular culture front, they went
absolutely apeshit when they watched Team America: World Police:
This
kind of "anarchism" encourages selfish, petty-bourgeois individualism
of the worst kind. The result? Another generation of self-absorbed,
apathetic American youth, pumped up on caffeine, glued to the TV eating
microwave pizza, with a "F*** you" attitude to the outside
world.
And
this is exactly what the ruling class wants — Bush and his spinmeisters
couldn't have come up with a better campaign themselves!
And
movies like Team America: Wold Police fit very nicely into their masterplan.
Don't
see this film. Don't let your children see this film (lock them up if
necessary!).
Get
off the couch, throw out the junk food, spend your $14 on Mike Moore's
latest book and join the fight against fascism.
Really,
it's so much more satisfying.
Not
only psychopaths, they're boring psychopaths.
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