Why the Struggle to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is So Important Weekly 2 September 24 2020 1316 Worker LETTERS

A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity John Riddell: the background n Letters and debate n Brexit gamble to and enduring significance n Irish unity prospects of the united front tactic n Socialism polemic No 1316 September 24 2020 Towards a mass Communist Party £1/€1.10 Why the struggle to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg is so important weekly 2 September 24 2020 1316 worker LETTERS the collapse of the Soviet Union in Letters may have been The only way to address that issue is, collapse of the Soviet Union, which revolution are irreconcilable opposites, shortened because of as Marx quite rightly said, by class led to the idea of socialism losing its and that we have to choose between 1992, the US has been encircling, space. Some names struggle on an international basis. appeal to many people - particularly them. expanding Nato and chopping away at may have been changed And that project is not going too well! eastern Europeans, who experienced The vanguard question is related to Russia’s borderlands. For example, Bill Maren Clarke post-war communist control until the the main contradiction facing the left Clinton’s illegal war against Yugoslavia email 90s. between bureaucratic socialism, which was a US war crime against humanity. End to value The truth is that, from Lenin to Pol Lenin and Trotsky brought about, and The illegal US/Nato aggression was a In my view Chris Gray’s article on It’s us what pays Pot, the tragedies experienced by the left a democratic socialist society. Trotsky replay of the 1980s terrorist mujahideen Clive Ponting was first class and I just John Smithee is right to identify Rishi can be traced back to two individuals later pretended to be snow white and in Afghanistan against the USSR. The want to make a few comments that Sunak as Her Majesty’s Government’s in particular: Marx and Trotsky. The went on to criticise bureaucracy from purpose was to break up one of the last came to mind, as I read it (‘Arguing ‘star’ of the Covid crisis (Letters, former advocated dictatorship, which an ultra-left perspective, but he was socialist countries of the former Soviet against the wrong “Marxism”‘, September 17). was confused with the need for state one of its progenitors. Union, exploit it as capitalists wantonly September 17). Given the incompetence of coercion in the process of the socialist Tony Clark do and to carve out Kosovo as the Marx and Engels were certainly Johnson, his team at No10 and the transformation of society; and the Labour supporter largest US military base in Europe: products of their time, but we should highest ministerial positions being latter advocated the ultra-left theory of Camp Bondsteel. remember that their goal was to held by people unfit for their role, the permanent revolution, which seduced Last Stalinist The destruction of Yugoslavia was explain human development. Quite treasury effectively took charge. As Lenin in 1917 into trying to bring about In 2005 Belarus president Aleksandr finalised earlier this month. Serbia’s crudely the gun beats the spear. The a UK citizen I have to be grateful, I communism in a relatively backward Lukashenko was dubbed “the last president, Aleksandar Vučić, was north won the US civil war because it suppose. When the country’s in the country. This approach was later tried dictator in Europe” by President seated like a schoolchild at a tiny desk produced weaponry more efficiently mire it’s good to see some direction by Mao and in an even more extreme George W Bush’s secretary of state, next to his ‘teacher’ in Washington - than the south and it did this because and purpose from HMG. Mr Sunak form by Pol Pot, which led to disasters Condoleezza Rice - and the name has Donald Trump towered over him at it had better technology. Similarly the and his treasury team delivered where for the left, further undermining the stuck in the west. his imperial desk in the Oval Office. Soviets devastated the environment the rest of the government failed. socialist idea. The US foreign policy Vučić was there to receive Serbia’s because they had to compete with a When Sunak becomes prime When the Russian Revolution broke establishments pretend that ‘dictator’ is documents of defeat and like a dunce system which paid no regard to nature minister he’ll take the brightest and out, Lenin was primed and ready to a dirty word to them, but the US has he signed it. or the damage to it. best of the treasury team with him to abandon the positive side of Marxism a long history of cosying up to and Everyone should also know about Marx could have said this was all No10. He’ll clear the cabinet of ‘place for Trotskyism, since before the backing dictators. It backed the fascist the US 2014 illegal coup in Ukraine. It morally wrong and written romantic persons’ who were only there due to outbreak of revolution in 1917 he was dictator, Francisco Franco, from the was behind a European Union ‘bait and books espousing the virtues of a their supposed ultra-commitment to pushing the ultra-left line of turning the 1936 Spanish Civil War until 1973. switch’ offer for eventual membership simple life, but unfortunately this is Brexit. Johnson will shuffle off into imperialist war into civil war, which he Prominent politicians and corporations in the EU. Ukraine was suffering not how human development unfolds. the dustbin of history - a short-term later dropped for the more appealing helped Hitler rise to power in 1933 under economic hardships, and the And, given Marx set himself the task PM mired in failure, leaving office Bolshevik slogan, ‘Peace, bread, land’. and rebuild Germany’s military. The US and EU put stars in the eyes of the of uncovering in human development with his country in a far worse place It was the counterrevolution which US supported the corrupt Ferdinand Ukrainian people. The psy-op had them what Darwin had uncovered in nature, than when he assumed it ... forced civil war on Lenin, although Marcos of the Philippines from 1965 dreaming of a future prosperity, being he could hardly bring morality into Poor Mr Johnson - he wanted to be he had foolishly been previously until 1986; Suharto in Indonesia from Europeanised and eventually becoming the equation. a combination of his heroes, Winston advocating civil war. The left should 1968 until 1998; Hosni Mubarak Nato members. So Marx’s statements on man’s Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, in never advocate civil war like Lenin in Egypt from 1981 until 2011; and The terms that the EU ended up mastery over nature were not an his role as PM. But ... he ain’t even did, but rather promote the peaceful the US continues to support dozens offering to Ukraine were so deceitful endorsement of the degradation of the close, is he? He lacks both their transformation of capitalism into of rightwing and fascistic criminal that no Ukrainian president, no matter environment, but simply a description political nous and their work ethic ... socialism. If the counterrevolution dictators and archaic evil monarchies how corrupt, could accept them. The of human development from an hence the failure. forces civil war on the left, we should today, such as Saudi Arabia. result was the US-choreographed objective viewpoint. And that mastery Schadenfreude is there in spades, then defend the revolution by force. US presidents from Franklin Delano Euromaidan colour revolution. US is not just a technical point. If man can as we witness the unravelling of By the way, I am not arguing that the Roosevelt to Richard Nixon were said meddling has resulted in thousands of use mechanical devices to build dams, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Bolsheviks should have held back from to think about Nicaragua’s fascistic deaths, chaos, and the lives of ordinary it does not mean man has mastery but remember it’s us what does the taking power in the revolution, and dictator, Anastasio Somoza, ‘He’s a son Ukrainians have been the worse for it. over nature if most are wage-slaves or suffering and it’s us what pays the simply clear the path to power for the of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch’. The corruption has just changed hands subservient. price ... liberal bourgeoisie, as the Mensheviks The only problem that the US has with to US profiteers. Alienation will still exist. Only Robbie Leslie and other rightwing socialists wanted to Belarus’s Lukashenko is that he is not The eastern Ukrainian people when the products of labour are not email do. But the Bolsheviks should not have the US’s. wanted no part in the coup. The alienated will man have mastery over taken power on the basis of Trotskyism: Lukashenko is a tough Stalinist. A US backed a fascist and corrupt nature in the full sense of the term. Nationalism that is, with the intent of bringing about better nom de plume for Lukashenko coup government, which wanted to And at that point, nature, among other Oliver Healey writes in flowery terms an immediate socialist revolution, would be ‘the Last Stalinist of the ethnically cleanse eastern Ukraine things, will be very much factored (Letters, September 10). which theoretically is responsible for Soviet Union’. Even his secret service of its Russian ethnicity. It is another into consideration, where economic Capitalism is not the product of the subsequent disasters that plagued is still called the KGB (Komitet shameful episode in US history, which value is concerned - in a way that a financial conspiracy, and workers the communist movement.

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