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READERS RESPOND TO U.S. PEACE COUNCIL ON RUSSIA’S MILITARY
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March 28, 2022
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[Below are responses from readers to the statement
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of the U.S. Peace Council on Russia's Military Intervention in
Ukraine. xxxxxx seeks to provide a variety of viewpoints, some of
which we do not agree with. The common set of principles of
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Well I hope this isn’t xxxxxx's position

_MAURICE JACKSON_

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I respect that you all share different left viewpoints on the issues
of the day. But this is anti-imperialism for fools. This piece from
_In These Times_ would make a good counterpoint.

"Facts Over Ideology, Peace Over War"

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_JOHN TARLETON_

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The USPC's "demands" are precisely the Putin government's negotiating
terms.

_ETHAN YOUNG_
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Are you serious with this? The US Peace Council looks like some
stalinist front. This is a bunch of garbage, even assuming that NATO
should not have been expanding. There was no imminent threat to
Russia. Nothing justifies the attack, or the nature of it.

_CHRISTOPHER MARTIN_

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This is a clear example of Putidiocy, putting the “Peace Council “
solidly behind the Russian aggression. The notion that Russia is
defending itself from a Ukrainian attack on Russia is bizarre looking
glass nonsense and promoting this Russian propaganda line undermines
the real peace movement. The Russian regime is in no way leftist or
anti-imperialist, so support for it is just support for an alternative
imperialism. Remember that Putin claims that Ukraine is not a
legitimate country because, he says, it was created by Lenin and the
evil Bolsheviks to weaken the Great Russian nation.

_STAN NADEL_

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Why is xxxxxx publishing this utter crap?  I know it fosters a
diversity of opinions on the Left, but it is political and morally
offensive.

_VAN GOSSE_

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Is this a joke? How is this material of interest on the Left?

_LAWRENCE LIPSCHULTZ_

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This is pitiful. For all its listing of various factors in this
conflict, it fails to find the principal contradiction, between
Russians occupying parts of Ukraine and Ukraine's defense of their
sovereignty. Worse, it presents Russia as the one employing
'self-defense' by bombing and killing a country that did not invade
them, whatever their differences.

The best I can say about it is the authors are caught in a time warp,
thinking today's Russia, governed by someone who trashed Lenin and
resurrected Denkin and worse, is the old USSR. Putin made his point
clear to all. Ukraine is part of Russia, and anyone there opposing
that notion is to be suppressed.

_CARL DAVIDSON_
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You know who loves pre-emptive war doctrine? Israel.

_CHARLES LENCHNER_
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I think this era in Europe is most closely identified with the
inter-imperialist wars in the years before 1917 when the left split
into Socialist and Communist movements (each going by many names) over
the Socialists’ support of their national bourgeoisie and its side
of the war.  But on the Communist side as well there were repeated
splits not only over domestic strategy, but unfortunately over
balancing the national interests of the first socialist party with
State Power and the international interests of the communist movement
as a whole.  The difficulties and excesses caused and intentionally
exacerbated by the Soviet Government and later other imperfect
Socialist states, produced distortions of global communist policies in
some areas but, when national and international interests overlapped
(such as the anti-colonial struggle), an important strengthening of
the left’s abilities in the struggle.  Many of these imperfections
were produced, as Lenin presciently described, due to the emergence of
Socialism in countries which were the weakest link in the capitalist
chain.  Marx had theoretically described the emergence of Socialism
in the most advanced capitalist countries with substantial experience
with Bourgeois democracy.  Though, as a global left, we are more
sensitive to these issues today, this problem with those countries
with socialist governments, and imperfect democracies, continues today
with variable national balances between authoritarianism and
democracy.

But this is not the objective reality after the counter revolution in
the Soviet Union in the 1990s,  led by, as it was after the Civil War
in this country, criminal elements in league with government
corruption.  The theft of the state sector of the economy by private
enterprise left the people of Russia with little democracy and none of
the wealth they struggled for 70 years to share socially.  So
certainly, this previous confusion as to the essence of Soviet State
Policy cannot serve as an excuse for a confused left response to the
current Russian war, in violation of Marxist Leninist Principals and
with colonial overtones.  This war no matter how much land is secured
by Russia, strengthens of the unfettered hand of the US and NATO, as
well as poses a danger to Cuba and Latin America by its theoretical
support for the imperial Monroe Doctrine.

It is a shame that an organization with a noble history such as the US
Peace Council should defect from the people’s struggles for
increased democracy and socialism when they are most needed.  It
violates its obligations to the peoples it hopes to speak for as in
this electronic age we all see who is being bombed and who is doing
the bombing as well as whose tanks are in whose suburban streets.

_PETER ORRIS_

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An excellent analysis -- but I have not seen much activity from the
Council for a long time.

_JOSEPH G. KAYE_

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