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Subject: ZIG-ZAG 1.2
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From: pmsc13sg@smucs1.umassd.edu (Stephen Grossman)
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Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 16:59:58 GMT
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ZIG-ZAG 1.2 Apr.29, 1993
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TRACKING THE MARXIST DIALECTICAL STRATEGY OF ADVANCE-RETREAT-ADVANCE OR
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UNITY-SPLIT-UNITY IN INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTION
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STEPHEN GROSSMAN WEEKLY? INTERNET
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This is the origin of the Marxist dialectic and evidence that Marxists
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recognize theory as a cause and explanation of war and revolution:
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"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class
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struggles....Communists everywhere support every[!] revolutionary movement
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against the existing social and political order of things....The Communists
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fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the
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momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present,
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they also represent and take care of the future of the movement....In Germany
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they fight with[!] the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way....
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But they _never cease_, for a single instant, to instil into the working class
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the clearest possible recognition of the hostile antagonism between
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bourgeoisie and proletariat in order that the German workers use, as so many
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weapons[!] against the bourgeoisie, the social and political conditions that
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the bourgeoisie must necessarily[!] introduce along with[!] its supremacy, and
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in order that after the fall of the reactionary classes in Germany the fight
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against the bourgeoisie itself may immediately begin."[Marx, _Communist
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Manifesto_, 1848]
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Pragmatists consider each political event as isolated (e.g.,
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nationalism and revolution in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador,
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Colombia, East Europe, China and the Soviet Union), thus disabling themselves
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from learning from the past and planning for the future. Marxists consider
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each political event as an _incomplete part of a definite process_ extending
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from the past, through the present, to the future. Pragmatists try to end
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conflict but Marxists _need_ conflict for _progress_ to the next stage in
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revolution.
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On CNN (11:30 a.m., EDT, Apr.13, 1993), former Stanford Univ. English
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professor, H. Bruce Franklin, discussed the recent controversy over the Soviet
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document on U.S. Vietnam War POWS. [ZIG-ZAG failed to learn his [current
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professional status]
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Franklin edited _The Essential Stalin_, a 1972 collection of writings,
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some of which were used in _ZIG-ZAG 1.1_. Identifying himself as a Communist,
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he says "I used to think of Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and butcher who
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jailed and killed millions....But, to about a billion people today, Stalin is
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the opposite of what we in the capitalist world have been programmed to
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believe....If we are to understand Stalin at all, and evaluate him from the
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point of view of either of the two major opposing classes, we must see him,
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like all historical figures, as a being created by his times and containing
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the contradictions of those times....In 1952, the Soviet Union was the second
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greatest industrial, scientific, and military power in the world....Everybody
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but the Trotskyites, and even some of them, would have to admit that the
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situation for the Communist world revolution was incomparably advanced in 1953
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over what it had been in the early or mid 1920s. From a Communist point of
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view, Stalin was certainly one of the greatest of revolutionary leaders....
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[Soviet Communism] went far enough to pass the baton to a fresher
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runner, the workers and peasants of China, who, studying and emulating Stalin,
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have already gone even further..."
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An advocate of Marxist mass murder is respectfully interviewed by a
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leading news organization on other actions of Marxists.
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Gorbachev, the former proconsul of the Soviet province of the
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Marxist Empire, spoke at a U.S. celebration for Thomas Jefferson. [CNN, Apr.13,
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1992]
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Marx was a collectivist who advocated mass murder and whose students
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committed mass murder. Thomas Jefferson applied the individualist political
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philosophy of John Locke to practical reality, helping to create the United
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States.
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In a _NYT_ essay (May 7, 1992), "Neo-Bolsheviks of the I.M.F.," Georgy
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Arbatov, director of the Institute of U.S. and Canada of the Russian Academy of
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Sciences, gave Americans advice about giving money to the Soviet Marxists.
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Arbatov is of the most important officials of Marxist disinformation.
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He and his U.S.A. Institute pose as serious scholars to convince unprincipled
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Pragmatists that there are good guys and bad guys in the Soviet Union and that
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he wants to help Americans help the good guys defeat the bad guys. The U.S.
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need merely appease the bad guys to defeat them and Arbotov will provide the
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high level contacts for journalists, scholars, and other influentiual
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Americans who may change U.S. foreign policy to a...progressive direction.
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"One of his specialities is the 'unguarded moment,' in which he
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confides to his foreign visitors that his is a difficult, uphill struggle, but
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that he is beginning to make some progress in making reasonable men out of he
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gargoyles on the Central Committee....To suggest that Arbatov is [a Marxist]
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agent whose purpose is to probe for weaknesses and areas of [Pragmatist]
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indecision and irresolution is, at best, a serious social gaffe if obvious
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fascist calumny....As Kkrushchev himself[!] put it, in repudiating the
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idea that he had spoken out of turn to the late Senator Hubert Humphrey in 1958
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on the subject of Chinese communes: 'The mere suggestion that I might have had
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confidential contact with a man who boasts of having spent twenty years
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fighting communism can only give rise to laughter. Anyone who understands
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anything at all about politics, to say nothing of Marxism-Leninism, will
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rrealize that a confidential talk with Mr. Humphrey about the policies of
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communist parties and relations with our best friends, the leaders of the
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Communist Party of China, is inconceivable." [_The New KGB_, William Corson &
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Robert Crowley, 1986; a superior history; the Khrushchev comment quoted from
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_Current Soviet Policies_, V.3, Jan.1959-Leo Gruliow, p.206]
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"It is not uncommon for disclosures in the communist press about
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dissension in the communist world to be backed up by off-the-record remarks by
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communist leaders and officials to their Western counterparts and friends....
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In the preface to his book _The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict_. Zbigniew
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Brzezinski wrote, 'I am also grateful to several officials of various communist
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states, for their willingness to discuss matters they should not have discussed
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with me.' No explanation is offered in the book of the reasons why
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communist officials should have been willing to speak frankly to a prominent
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anticommunist scholar and citizen of the leading 'imperialist' power, nor is
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any reference made in the book to the possibilities of disinformation. But if
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the existence of a disinformation program is taken into account, together with
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the controls over the communist officials in contact with foreigners, the
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explanation for these indiscretions is obvious." [Anatoliy Golitsyn, _New Lies
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for Old, 1984, p.100]
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Brzezinski is a Pragmatic, unsystematic anticommunist, who mindlessly
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responds to crises without policy, like any brute animal. He is respected by
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major news media as an expert on Marxism. His competence consists of memorizing
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vast amounts of concrete information which he is unable or unwilling to
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understand by means of a unifying principle. The philosophy of Pragmatism is a
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principled[!] opposition to principles. In application as a foreign policy
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advisor he can only compromise one concrete situation with another. He is the
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perfect "useful idiot" of Lenin and of any Marxist who considers concrete
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situations only within a systematic, "long-range bloc policy."
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"Russia fired an unarmed long-range nuclear test missile on Dec.20 to
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test its potential for commercial space launchings....electronic data from the
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4000-mile test had been coded by Moscow, in violation of the unratified
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strategic arms reduction treaty, but that the test appeared to have been for
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peaceful purposes." ["Russia Warns U.S., Then Launches Missile," _NYT_, Jan.22,
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1992]
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U.S. defense officials claim the missile is unarmed and peaceful
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despite coded test data. Pragmatists, who reject absolutes for compromise,
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would lie about a dangerous missile to protect, not the U.S., but their desire
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to compromise with the enemy. Pragmatists in the U.S. govt. claimed
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that satellites could detect all the Soviet missiles needed to verify an arms
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treaty. They evaded the virtual certainty that the Soviet military hid
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missiles from the satellites.
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"President [i.e., dictator] Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia [i.e., the
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dialectically and temporarily split Soviet Union]...says his government intends
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to stop targeting American cities with long-range nuclear missiles." ["Russia
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to Stop Targeting U.S. Cities," _NYT_, Jan.27, 1992]
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Soviet Marxists must be so busy with ending communism that they are too
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tired to send a few computer commands to the missiles; either that, or they
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intend war.
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Mao is the clearest among the major strategists of Marxist dialectics:
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"In each thing there is a struggle between its new and old aspects, and
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this gives rise to a series of struggles with many twists and turns....It is
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always so in the world, the new displacing the old, the old being superseded by
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the new, the old being eliminated to make way for the new, and the new
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emerging out of the old....each of the two contradictory aspects [of a thing]
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transforms itself into its opposite....no contradictory aspect [of a thing] can
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exist in isiolation. Without its opposite aspect each loses the condition for
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its existence....without life there could be no death....without "above" there
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would be no "below"....to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat...is
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in fact to prepare the conditions for abolishing this dictatorship and
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advancing to the higher stage when all state systems are eliminated....these
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opposites are at the same time complimentary....War and peace...transform
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themselves into each other....struggle [is] universal and absolute, but
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the...forms of struggle differ according to the differences in the nature of
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the contradictions...the [Chinese nationalist] Kuomintang, which played a
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certain role in modern Chinese history, became a counterrevolutionary party
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after 1927....[contradiction] is a universal truth for all times and all
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countries, which admits of no exception..." [Mao, _On Contradictions_, 1937]
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The 30-year Soviet military build-up contradicted the weak Marxist
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economy and developed into chaos and stagnation. Restructuring (perstroika) and
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publicity for socialism (glasnost) contradicted the chaos and stagnation and
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developed into the bogeyman of the Soviet "Coup" for Pragmatist and
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traditionalist class enemies. The Movement for Democratic Reform contradicted
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the "coup" and developed into the dialectically temporary splits of the Soviet
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Union. The splits have been partially contradicted by the Commonwealth of
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Independent States.
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The "Coup" is less a deception than a moment in the revolutionary
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process. The military build-up also encouraged suspicion which was defused by a
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dialectical split between "conservatives" and "liberals." This encouraged
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compromise-seeking Pragmatists among the class enemies (especially the "main
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enemy," the U.S.) to aid the "liberals" before the "conservatives" could
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"restart" the Cold War. The resulting aid, trade, lower military spending among
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imperialists and increased openness for active measures (subversion) will
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enable Marxists and the revolutionary process to unify in a larger, more
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dangerous way. Pragmatists will, once again, evade the past and future for the
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eternal present and the dialectical process of unity-split-bigger unity will
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continue to its end of world communism.
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Historian Anatoliy Golitsyn was Stalin's KGB archive researcher in the
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early 1950s. Stalin was pleased with the success of past _active measures_ or
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political influence operations such as the Far Eastern Republic, the
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Brest-Litovsk Treaty, and The Trust but disliked their Pragmatism, their being
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merely a short-range response to crises. He wanted a systematic policy of
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Marxist internationalism to take advantage of the post-WW2 opportunities for
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increased subversion. Accordingly, Golitsyn prepared a history of past active
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measures which Stalin used as a guide for the "long-range bloc policy," a
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strikingly successful policy of phony, superficial, and/or temporary splits
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among Marxists which included the "end" of communism in the Soviet Union and
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eastern Europe as well as the 1991 Soviet "coup." In _New Lies For Old_ [Dodd,
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NYC, 1984], Golitsyn describes six glasnosts, summarized below:
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Lenin's (and later, Stalin's) NEW ECONOMIC POLICY (1921-9) was a
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return to profits, peasant farms, business, real money, and debt payments.
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Diplomats and spies claimed peaceful co-existence. Underground journals were
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encouraged to contact Westerners. Capitalist nations gave loans, commodities,
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engineers, and factories. Lenin then nationalized business, banished foreign
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investors, restarted censorship, and repressed dissidents.
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Stalin's CONSTITUTION (1936-7) was a legal[!] guarantee of freedom of
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speech, press, assembly, and voting. Diplomats and spies talked Pragmatism and
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management. Marxists became respectable politicians. Roosevelt gave loans and
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trade. The Great Terror and the Nazi-Soviet Pact followed.
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UNCLE JOE (1941-5) promised democracy. religious freedom, and an end
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to international subversion. Spies and diplomats persuaded the Pragmatist
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Roosevelt to provoke Germany and Japan into war. Stalin got $11 billion in
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Lend-lease and acceptance of demands for eastern Europe, some Japanese islands,
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and China. He invaded Czechoslovakia, Iran, and Greece.
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Krushchev's DESTALINIZATION (1956-9) was a condemnation of Stalin (his
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style, not substance) and a promise of private farms and industry and profits
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for Americans. Clergymen, artists, and intellectuals got some freedom.
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"Research institutes" became "news" sources for Western journalists. False
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missile telemetry data hid Soviet superiority. There were dissident arrasts,
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the Berlin Wall, and nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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Brezhnev's DETENTE (1970-5) was a stress on peaceful technology and a
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denunciation od world domination. The Helsinki accords legalized[!] dissent.
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Nixon gave loans, wheat, and technology. "Dovish" Soviet "diplomats" asked for
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American compromises [Pragmatism] to weaken Soviet "hawks." The U.S. revealed
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SALT verification methods, allowing soviets to show and hide their nuclear
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missiles and evaluate our Intelligence. The CIA learned that the Soviets
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rejected Mutually Assured Destruction for a nuclear war-fighting and
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war-winning strategy. Carter evades this. Brezhnev arrested dissidents, closed
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underground journals and invaded Afghanistan.
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Gorbachev's REVOLUTION (1983-?) was a concern with civilian neds,
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trade, and Western loans. Farms and business got some freedom. American
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musicians and TV visit. "Unofficial" journals and "research institutes"
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provide "news" for American journalists. Military cuts hide reorganization and
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better weapons. Europe praises Gorbachev. He arms South American Marxists who
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invade El Salvador and Peru.
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[Golitsyn's description stops in 1983-4]
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"What does the history of the development of the international
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Communist movement demonstrate?....that, like everything
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else, the international working-class movement tends to divide itself in
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two....It is precisely throught his struggle of opposites that Marxism-Leninism
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and the international working class movement have developed....Unity, struggle
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or even splits, and a new unity on a new basis-such is the dialectics of the
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development of the international working-class movement....proletarian unity
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has been consolidated and has developed through struggle against opportunism,
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revisionism and splittism. The struggle for unity is inseparably connected with
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the struggle for principle....The international proletariat can have
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organizational cohesion and unity of action only when it has theoretical and
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political unity." [_Hong-ki_, Communist Party of China theoretical journal;
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quoted in _NYT_, Feb.7, 1964]
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The Pragmatist _NYT_ denies any relationship between theory any
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practice.
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"Soviet Reformists Decide To Create Opposition Group-Shevardnadze As
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Leader" [_NYT_, July 2, 1991]
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"[R]eforms...are...a necessary and legitimate respite...when...it
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becomes obvious that sufficient strength is lacking for the revolutionary
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accomplishment of this or that transition....reformist path...of flanking
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movements...The revolutionary parties must complete their education. They have
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learned how to attack. Now they have to realize that this knowledge must be
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supplemented with the knowledge [of] how to retreat properly....To carry on a
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war for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie....is not [it]
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ridiculous in the extreme....to refuse beforehand ever to move in zigzags[!]
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ever to retrace our steps, ever to abandon the course once selected and to try
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others?" [Lenin, quoted by Stalin, _Foundations of Leninism_, 1924]
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....with revolutionary tactics under the conditions of bourgeoisie
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rule, reforms are naturally transformed into an instrument for disintegrating
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that rule,...for strengthening the revolution....The revolutionary will accept
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a reform in order to use it as an aid in combining legal work with illegal work
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and to intensify, under its cover the illegal work for the revolutionary
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preparation of the masses for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie....reform
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emanates FROM the proletarian power, it strengtens the proletarian power, it
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procures for it a necessary respite, its purpose is to disintegrate, not the
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revolution, but the non-proletarian classes. Under such conditions a reform is
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thus [dialectically] transformed into its opposite....substituting for
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offensive tactics the tactics of temporary retreat [Stalin, _Foundations of
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Leninism_, 1924]
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"[At Vietnam's] Institute of Marxism-Leninism....because of the
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declining standing of Marx and Lenin...the institute...took out a kind of
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DIALECTICAL insurance....the name of Ho Chi Minh was added to the school's
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title." [_NYT_, Apr.27, 1993, p.A4]
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The _NYT_ occasionally but briefly recognizes a theory-practice
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connection.
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Addicts feel desperate without drugs.
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Pragmatists feel desperate without short-range, isolated events.
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The first statement is a practical application of the theory in the
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second statement.
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Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, the allegedly dissident KGB officer who
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allegedly favors the end of communism and who allegedly retired was a recent
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topic of discussion. Former U.S. govt. Intelligence specialist Herbert
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Romerstein suggested, among other possibilities, that Kalugin's dissent was a
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deception and that he wanted to penetrate the democratic movement. Former FBI
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counterintelligence agent James Nolan "noted that [he] was part of the KGB's
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political branch while in Washington, the section responsible for
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disinformation and active measures, and for recruiting influential Americans as
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spies or agents[1]. Gen. Kalugin, speaking to reporters in Moscow, said "that
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while in Washington he worked closely with several journalists, including Max
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Frankel, now the executive editor of the _New York Times_, the late columnist
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Walter Lippman, Carl Rowan, now a columnist with the _Washington Post_, and
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Stephen rosenfeld, deputy editorial page editor and columnist at the _Post_.
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[_Washington Times_, Jun 19, 1990]
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"Appearing nonstop on radio and television talk shows from Los Angeles
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to New York, Mr.[!] Kalugin is helping Cable News Network promote its book on
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the collapse of the Soviet Union. He is also addressing foreign policy groups.,
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trying to find a publisher for his memoirs, arranging televsion and movie
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projects...his teammate[!] on the tour, Stuart R. Loory, vice-president of
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CNN[!]...came to know him well[!] when [Kalugin] served undercover as a press
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officer in the Soviet embassy in Washington in the 1960s....Mr. Kalugin has
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also landed a lucrative consulting contract for a joint British-American
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television series on the KGB and the [CIA]. He is poised to sign another
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contract with the William Morris Agency to represent his own book...and to
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arrange speaking engagements and television and movie projects in the United
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States." After his alleged dissidence, Kalugin "was officially denounced,
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stripped of his military rank and pension and charged with the crime of
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disclosing state secrets. He left the Communist Party, became a local
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celebrity, ran for and won[!} a seat in the Soviet Parliament-now disbanded-and
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plans to run again for local office. Last year he served as a consultant to a
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film on a fictional KGB-inspired [have they no shame?!] coup that was released
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in the former Soviet Union, and he is helping to launch a new Russian magazine
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called _Red Archives_ that will publish political commentary, fiction, and
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previously secret [they have no shame] govt. documents. His military privileges
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and nearly worthless KGB pension of 700 rubles a month were restored by
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President[!] Mikhail S. Gorbachev..." [_NYT_, Jan.20, 1992]
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This is a very well-constructed "cover" but for a "disinformation
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and active measures" specialist who "worked closely with" influential American
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journalists, any reward wouldn't be enough. Why should the Soviet Marxists
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launch their missiles when we'll allow their agents access to American
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opinion-makers? They'll talk us into surrender.
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_Problems of Communism_, a United States Information Agency journal is
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ceasing publication. "[It] is regarded by journalists and scholars as one of
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the foremost journals of analysis about Communism." [_NYT_, May 31, 1992]
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Some analyses in _Zig-Zag_ are inspired by _Problems of Communism_. The
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decrease in competent anti-communist research is one effect of the Marxist
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dialectic-splits among the class enemy.
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"...Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Kozyrev...said hard-line Communists
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often allied themselves with nationalist movements to obscure their true
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goals." [_NYT_, May 25, 1992]
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This is classic Marxist strategy. See Vietnam, El Salvador, and
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Nicaragua. Anti-communists failed to sufficiently stress this in debate with
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Marxists and their sympathizers over the last several decades .
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"At the peak of detente, the Soviet Communist Party issued secret
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instructions to supply arms to a militant Palestinian guerilla group for use
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against Israelis and Americans, a Russian official said...the party secretly
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financed foreign Marxist parties and terrorist movements..." [_NYT_, May 26,
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1992]
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This is for short-range Pragmatists who will think that
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Marxists are compromising their values by revealing past evil. But these are
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_old_ lies. At the time, however, anti-communists who made these claims were
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ignored and ridiculed. Pragmatists who were short-range in the past are still
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short-range, still claiming the enemy is in the past.
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An essential bibliography:
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_Communist Manifesto_-Marx, 1848.
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"'Left-Wing' Communism-an Infantile Disorder"-Lenin, 1920.
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"Problems of Leninism"-Stalin, 1924.
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_On Contradiction_-Mao, 1937.
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"The Difficult, Devious, and Dangerous Dialectic"-Fred Schwarz, in his
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_You Can Trust the Communists (To Be Communists), Prentice-Hall, NYC, 1960;
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this is the best understanding of the Marxist strategy of dialectical
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revolution (besides mine).
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"On the Philosophy of Contradictions: the Sino-Soviet Dispute as a Case
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Study in Communist Conflict Thinking"-George Damien, _Orbis_ 11:4, Winter 1968.
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"The Dialectical Structure of the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural
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Revolution"-George Damien, _Orbis_ 14:1, Spring 1970.
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various monographs, articles by Peter Tang, Richard Wraga, and Natalie
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Grant of the (defunct) Research Institute on the Sino-Soviet Bloc; Boston Univ.
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_New Lies For Old_-Anatoliy Golitsyn, Dodd, NYC, 1984.
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_International Affairs_(Moscow)-theoretical[!] foreign policy journal
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of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
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A systematic philosophy is needed to understand and counter Marxism.
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Pragmatism? A Pragmatist jumps off a cliff and says, "So far, so good!"
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"[Pragmatists] are interested in the superficial manifesatations of
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Communist organization, but they are not interested in the philosophic credo
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from which they draw their motivating forces, their basic strategy, and their
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confidence in the future....The superficial manifestations are inseparably
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related to its underlying philosophic concept....Dialectical Materialism is the
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philosophy of Karl Marx that he formulated by taking the dialectic of hegel,
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marrying it to the materialism of Feurbach, abstracting from it the concept of
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progress in terms of the conflict of contradictory, interacting forces called
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the Thesis and the Antithesis culminating at a critical nodal point where one
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overthrows the other, giving rise to the Synthesis, applying it to the history
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of social development, and deriving therefroman essentially revolutionary
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concept of social change....Since [Marxists] believe this completely, their
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convictions are undisturbed by any evidence to the contrary that may appear day
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by day. They stand above the changing scene of daily ebb and flow and see the
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currents and tides of history. The idea that their faith can be shattered by
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anything they see at present is naive to the point of imbalance." [the last
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comment about "imbalance is an ad hominem fallacy. Schwarz, while excellent,
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for the most part in using philosophy to understand Marxist revolution, doesn't
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[explicitly] understand the Pragmatist rejection of theory] When the
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Communistrs listen to our arguments based on present circumstances and
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conditions, they must certainly be amazed, for their whole program rests on the
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future....THe Communist goal is fixed and changeless, but their direction of
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advance reverses itself from time to time. They approach their goal by going
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directly away from it a considerable portion of time....If we judge where the
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Communists are going by the direction in which they are moving, we will
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obviously be deceived....The Communists, however, think and act dialectically,
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They realize it is dialectical to approach their goal by going directly way
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from it....[They] have no absolutes. their dialectical relativity gives them a
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total strategic mobility. They may adopt the...ideology...of any group. They
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become all things to all men....[In condemning his rival, Bukharin, Stalin
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[writes," but it is very doubtful whether his theoretical views can be classed
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as fully Marxian, for their is something scholastic [consistent] in him (he has
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never studied, and, I think he has never fully understood dialectics)."
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[Schwarz, "The Difficult, Devious, and Dangerous Dialectic"; Stalin is quoted
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from _Problems of Leninism_]
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"The intellectuals are ignorant of philosphy's role in history-because
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of history....they do not look for system or causality....What they do not
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grasp is the power of wider abstractions in man's life, such as men's view of
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reality, of knowledge, of values." [_Leonard Peikoff, _Ominous Parallels_,
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Stein, NYC, 1982]
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"If you understand the dominant philosophy of a society, you can
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predict its course." [Ayn Rand, "Is Atlas Shrugging?" in _Capitalism, the
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Unknown Ideal_, Signet, NYC, 1967]
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Beyond and back of the wind, | Stephen Grossman
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Little birds fly into the sea, | pmsc13sg@umassd.edu
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Morning light shine on me. |
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