CJR!: You quoted me (Alan Spector) this way:
...
> Once
> someone accepts the validity of
capitalism's basic premises, it becomes
> childish for that person to
complain that the capitalist system isn't
> "playing fair" and then to beg
these genocidal [class-eliminating]
> murderers to please "play
nice."
and then added this commentary of your own:
> -- Then you admit that any attempt to create a
classless society (despite,
> in my view, the ultimate failure of any such
attempt) requires the
> implementation of a genocidal policy to accomplish
it?
>
>
//CJR
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My comment (in plain, non-bold or italic type):
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What in the world are you talking about? Do I
believe that violence is necessary in self-defense? Of course, and so do you.
Who in the world equates "violence" with "genocide?" Nobody with any
understanding of history! I guess the Native American Indians attempted to
commit genocide against the U.S.military, and the Vietnamese committed genocide
against the U.S. military, and the Jews who rose up during the Warsaw ghetto
uprising against the Nazis were trying to commit genocide against the poor
Nazis, by your logic.
How clever, and quite dishonest, of you to add
two words "[class eliminating]" when my
original quote was:
"There are plenty of other genocides
created by capitalism acting in a rational way to defend its
irrational class society. It is capitalism, and class society itself, which
are irrational in the sense that they harm the overwhelming majority of people
in the world. Once someone accepts the validity of capitalism's basic premises,
it becomes childish for that person to complain that the capitalist system isn't
"playing fair" and then to beg these genocidal murderers to please "play
nice."
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To CJReid: You are free to disagree with my
interpretation and deny that capitalism has committed genocidal murders, if you
choose. But changing my words---
(oh, I know, you put them in brackets to
demonstrate that they are added, but that point might not be clear to many who
read your twisted version of my comment because words added with [ ]
brackets imply that the additions are consistent with the original meaning, not
reversing the meaning! ),
---- so twisting my meaning and then responding
to your own words as if you were responding to my words is the crudest form of
dishonesty. So I'm finished dealing with you.
And apologies to the WSN list for any encouragement I might have given to
this "Charles J. Reid" and any time you might have wasted because of my foolish
attempts to debate with such a character.
Alan Spector
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