[Marxism] a thought on bombay/mumbai attacks

[Shamal A.]

I will forget about Aaron and his bizarre opinion, but it looks very odd to me that Walter Lippmann wants to prove that killing innocent people does not serve progressive forces and that is why it is not acceptable, what if it was serving socialism? would Walter support such terrorist attacks?
 this is my second day on this list... I'm really shocked by what i found here, is there any Marxist on this list want to condemn killing innocent people just because it is bad?
 
shamal ali 

--- On Thu, 11/27/08, Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] a thought on bombay/mumbai attacks
To: "Shamal Ali" <shemalali at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 3:30 PM

AARON AARON proclaims:
I'll mention a couple of positive outcomes of the events:
1) The head of the Anti-Terrorist Police was killed.
2) Two hotels where very rich Indians and foreigners went
to do their dirty business and/or relax have been destroyed
or severely damaged. - Aaron
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This is what passes for Marxmism in some circles today?

Sorry, I wasn't aware that the assassination of innumerable
citizens, many of who are workers in these hotels, serves
any progressive or Marxist purposes. There were those who
proclaimed that "chickens had come home to roost" following
the September 11, 2001 attacks, but they were just as wrong.

The NPR report I'm listening to says that the streets of
Mumbai are now silent, businesses closed, and there are 
police and soldiers everywhere. Nothing progressive or to
be saluted by anyone in the name of Marxism. My teachers
in Marxism argued that mass action, not the actions of a
self-appointed vanguard, were the key to progress in the
socialist struggle. And the kind of mentality which would
carry out such terrorist attacks have nothing in common
with the word "vanguard", though they ARE self-appointed.

These kinds of actions can only result in the strengthening
of repressive forces in India and in other places as well.
It's a twisted mentality indeed which can find anything to
salute in such events.

India today has innumerable social, economic and political
problems. Over the weekend I got a peek at these through
the most entertaining film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, which any
individuals interested in getting a sense of the uneven 
and combined development of modern India would do well to
take in. You see the sharp contrasts betweek the teeming
slums and the ostentatious living conditions of the rich
and arrogant. Between them: the television programming
which tries to tantalize the masses with dreams of what
a few lucky individuals might aspire personally obtaining.


Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California



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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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