Re: [CrashList] what's wrong with Pat Bond's politics

[Carrol Cox]

Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
> 
>  the blame for the actions rest entirely with Pinochet and the
> CIA- we cannot blame the victims, even if they travelled a road that had killed many
> before.
> 

(Assigning blame is on the whole not a very useful practice, but if we
do, some distinctions are necessary, as follows.)

Re Pinochet, CIA, etc.: They are merely the enemy; 'blaming' them is
sort of beside the point.

Re the 'victims': The victims were the many thousands of Chilean workers
slaughtered, tortured, exiled.

Allende was the man who _led_ the victims to slaughter. He was no
victim. I do believe that insofar as "blame" is a relevant category, it
is Allende and his chief advisers, leading comrades who should receive
that label. It is not an innocent mistake to trust that the capitalists
will submit peacefully to the dissolution of capital.

Carrol

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