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Terrorist acts do NOT always work against the proletariat. State terrorism on the part of the revolutionary government against the whites, and the families of the white Russians worked for the proletariat. And before that, since we all seem to endorse the Union in the US Civil War, Benjamin Butler was labeled the "beast" by that flower of Southern gentility after taking New Orleans and instituting Union military rule. He was not adverse to seizing property of "suspected"-- not convicted--supporters of the Confederacy, including the property of foreign banks. And he announced that attacks on Union troops would be punished as acts of treason. He wasn't afraid to act on that either. Certainly being in power makes terrorism a bit more effective than not being in power, but being in or out of power, is a temporal distinction, not a programmatic one. The union that represents these workers has squarely placed responsibility for the deaths at the feet of the police and the bank itself. Why would anyone want to divert focus from that properly assessed responsibility and somehow make this the irresponsible, careless, callous, act of anarchists. Why would someone claiming to be a leftists want to assume a position that is nothing other than parroting the bourgeoisie? Unless of course, there was a special cracker to be obtained. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
