Shiraz Socialist on Tibet

Posted by Jack Stephens | April 19th, 2008 | Crossposted from The Blog and the Bullet

Jim writes:

Listen, you Stalinists!

You have been systematically spreading lies about the ’Free Tibet’ movement, and offering uncritical support to the vicious, red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalist ruling class in Beijing. Of course, you are no strangers to the art of grovelling to, and lying for,  a thoroughly reactionary, anti-working class regime in the name of “socialism”: you adopted that posture towards the so-called “Soviet Union” for sixty years, until the workers of Russia and Eastern Europe (literally) tore down the edifice of Stalinist totalitarianism.

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5 Responses to “Shiraz Socialist on Tibet”

1. Ampersand Writes:
   April 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am

   Listen, you Stalinists!

   I like this sentence because it contains the seed of its own failure.

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2. Jack Stephens Writes:
   April 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

   I like this sentence because it contains the seed of its own failure.

   Hahaha! I just laughed out loud at my local library. LOL, very true very true.

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3. drydock Writes:
   April 20th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

   Stalinism vs leninism. Both are wrong. National liberation (IMO more accurately described as the liberation of national capital), which is posed in this article as the alternative to stalinist Chinese oppression of Tibet, is also a fraud just like every third world marxist revolution that turned into an authoritarian dictatorship,

   For a critique of so-called revolutionary nationalism, I’d recommend Fredy Perlman’s “The conitnuing Appeal of Nationalism”.

   http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/perlman-fredy/1984/nationalism.htm

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4. hf Writes:
   April 20th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

   But where do we go for the all-important critique of the Whig Party?

   (As Dave Barry would say: perhaps you do not believe America still has a Whig Party. Perhaps you are a fool. This is a bad analogy, in fact, since the modern Whig platform sounds like one that actually got press recently.)

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5. SOCIALIST UNITY » CARNIVAL OF SOCIALISM Writes:
   April 29th, 2008 at 6:10 am

   […] Alas blog amuses itself by the intemperate tone of Jim Denham’s contribution to the debate about Tibet at Shiraz Socialist. Though the same post by Jim was approvingly aggregated by Brownfemipower at the radical “blog and the bullet” site. The argument on Shiraz was not only bad tempered, but also relaied upon over-stretching historical analogy. […]

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