Re: propaganda

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Juan Luis Chulilla Cano wrote:

> First of all, I am a leftist
> 
> BUT
> 
> all of you, american leftist, have readed "hommage to Catalonia" by
> Orwell?


Interesting point, but weren't the pro-Republican Brigades fighting
Franco's *army*?

They weren't raining bombs down on Spanish *civilians* were they?

They weren't trying to reduce the country to the level of the Dark Ages,
as Thomas Friedman the New York Times columnist the other day said NATO
should do to Serbia, were they?  (So much for a war of civilization
against barbarians.)

Beware false historical analogies.


Richard Hutchinson
 




> 
> I suppose that most of you have readed "1984", which is directly
> inspirated in Orwell's experiences during Spanish Civil War. I know that
> my two letters are refered to that episode. Well, it's quite important
> for my country and the spaniards, but I also find dangerous parallelism
> between some of the pro-serbian posting and Orwell's denounces. Rooted
> parallelisms, since nothing of the old communist regime, except its
> dirty methods, survive. A communist regime, when prime minister's wife
> controls one of the most important parties, and her sons controls some
> of the most important companies? Ok, now tell me about the martians.
> 
> Have you heard about doublethinking? After ten years of massacres in Old
> Yugoslavia, who is the main aggressor? You, who appeals to UN
> procedures, should have a look to ACNUR and the Hage registers. I think
> that just doublethinking let denounce NATO agressions and let avoid to
> talk in the same proportion about Milosevic's regime agressions.
> 
> One of the funniest things of all of this is that some of the most acid
> (but not critical, oh, no!) have been written by you, american leftist,
> who never suffered a REAL suppression and political prosecution like we
> the Spanish leftist (ok, I'm too young, but I could tell you some
> stories and describe you what prosecution means).
> 
> What happen with your sense of critic, leftist? Can you only be critic
> against USA, as the kids are with the police?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Juan Luis Chulilla Cano
> Doctorate student at Social Anthropology department
> Complutense University, Madrid
> jenofon@idecnet.com
> 
>