Ashamed to be Marxist: relevant to animal rights. FREEDOM FORTNIGHTLY PLEASE PUBLISH!

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KILLING WITH KINDNESS ~

An Act of Compassion ~

One Campaign, One Goal.

A U.S. Federal Law for the

HUMANE euthanasia of

surplus, homeless companion animals.

One result :

PUTTING AN END TO THE CRUEL KILLING!

For more information & a sample letter

please see

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ASHAMED TO BE MARXIST !

 

AS READERS MUST BE AWARE, I consider myself to be a Marxist, in that I believe

the philosopher Karl Marx`s ( & his friend Frederick Engels`) view of historical

development to be correct. How ashamed I am to call myself MARXIST, however,

when I am faced with the crass indifference to suffering of other (so-called?)

Marxists ~ for example, their poo-pooing of anything to do with the rights of

animals to our protection & compassion.

These people mostly adhere to Lenin`s approach to life & that of Lenin`s heirs

in the East: i.e. blinkered, non-holistic, narrow & utterly focussed on

" politics " to the exclusion of everything else pertaining to life. They fail to

see that life is an integral whole & it doesn`t help that Marx & Engels

themselves never commented on the rights of animals, one way or another!

 

All of this is a far cry from the holistic approach to life (although she was

caught up in the utterly party-political struggle of German social-democracy in

the 1910s) of ROSA LUXEMBURG ~ whom today`s Leninists & leftists of all sorts

pay lip-service to.

 

 

 

Her letters from prison reveal her personality as consisting of much more than

do the sterile personalities of today`s Leninists, & even of many among today`s

non-Leninist Marxists (i.e. many even within the current Socialist Party of

Great Britain & its companion parties). Looking into the eye of an ox being

badly beaten by a cruel farmer, Rosa recognised a common suffering & a common

capacity for suffering between humans & animals, & this sensitivity is echoed in

the superb film " Rosa Luxemburg " by Margarethe Von Trotta.

Yet Leninist dullards with the nerve to call themelves revolutionists, who

dare to claim Rosa as one of their heroines no less (!) mock The Raven`s editor

for his campaign on behalf of the tortured dogs of Korea & on behalf of other

animals, calling his recent condemnation of Buddhist hypocrisy " western

chauvinism " & making fun of the campaign to rescue thousands of animals from an

ongoing nightmare.

" Western chauvinism " is one of the epithets used by Leninists & Maoists,

(usually to condemn progress of any kind) & in this case it shows their

solidarity is with brutal anti-working class regimes like that of South Korea,

Thailand-Siam & others ~ such is their macho horror of being associated with any

form of sensitivity. They are, in effect, the left-wing equivalent of the

foxhunter, & we know only too well that those with no regard for life in one

form have no regard for it in any form (Leninism`s record with regard to the

treatment of human beings needs no reiteration for our readers here!) ... But

such sloganeering is not the method of non-Leninist Marxists, yet even they mock

the movement for animal rights. Please write in to comment on my dilemma.