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From: Ben Seattle
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:17 AM
To: 'pof-300'
Subject: [pof-300] Another article for leaflet (Tom Hayden/ "Exit
Plan"/ liquidating the antiwar mvmt)
Hi folks,
Here is another article for the leaflet I will be distributing in
Seattle on September 24.
This article was inspired by Tom Hayden and recent CNN saturation
coverage of Cindy Sheehan.
This article will take up one column (ie: half a page) of the
planned 4 page leaflet.
If anyone is interested in helping me distribute this next month,
please let me know.
-- Ben
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Tom Hayden reveals all:
How the Democratic Party
and its flunkies plan to
liquidate the antiwar movement
with hot air about an "Exit Plan"
Bush's war in Iraq has run into trouble: the Iraqi people are
supporting the resistance, too many US soldiers are dying and it
is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit additional cannon
fodder. Furthermore, antiwar sentiment is growing as it becomes
obvious that, from the beginning, this was a war about oil, world
domination and permanent U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
Bush's war needs help. The Democratic Party is coming to the
rescue. Here is their plan to liquidate the antiwar movement
with an endless supply of nonsense about a supposed "exit plan":
1) "Refocus" the antiwar movement on electing
liberal imperialists in the Democratic Party
2) Reduce troop levels
3) Prop up a puppet government
4) Maintain permanent military bases
The Democratic Party is rushing to help Bush's war plans because
the Democratic Party is controlled by the same group of finance
capitalists who control the Republican Party and everything else
in the political and economic system of imperialism in which we
all live.
The plans of the Democratic Party (and the ruling capitalist
class as a whole) can be understood by making a careful study of
the capitalist mass media - which is preparing public opinion for
a shift to a more liberal method of imperialist rule - in which
presidents spend more time talking of peace and holding the hands
of grieving mothers of fallen soldiers - while bombing Iraqi
cites into rubble.
Other sources that are useful in understanding the plans of the
liberal imperialists include the journals of the
social-democratic political trends. (Social-democracy is a
spectrum of "progressive" political trends that are allied to one
another and anchored, at one end, to the imperialist Democratic
Party.) For example, an interview with Tom Hayden (a well-known
former student radical) can be found at the Counterpunch.org web
site. In this interview, Hayden says that "we have a practical
need to persuade moderates and politicians that the choices are
not permanent war versus pulling out troops tonight." Elsewhere
Hayden makes clear that this "persuasion" involves focusing the
attention of activists around electing the "persuaded"
imperialist politicians.
Tom Hayden, of course, is not alone. The corrupt imperialist
system includes layers and layers of lying liars who preach
"peace" to the people in the plazas - while spouting nonsense
about the need for an "exit plan" -- and the need to appeal to
and align with the strategic interests of U.S. imperialism.
Unfortunately, many left-wing groups promote as "allies" these
kinds of saviors from within the establishment.
Even the RCP and NION are getting into the act - softening up
activists with hot air about a supposed imminent fascist danger
and the need to "drive out the Bush regime" - as if the liberal
wing of imperialism isn't seeking to continue Bush's plans under
fresh leadership.
- Ben Seattle - http://struggle.net/ben
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