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   From: rolf.martens@comhem.se   
      
   there.   
      
   A "green" warfare, I'm calling this. It's directed, by the ruling reactionary   
   cliques, against practically everybody on earth. In the last three decades, it   
   has caused much more material destruction, and has killed many more people,   
   than all the openly-violent imperialist aggressions combined - this including   
   that most murderous one of them all, the one instigated against the DR Congo   
   which has cost some 5 million people their lives.   
      
   And those parties, groups and persons that have called themselves "Leftist"   
   "Marxist" or "Marxist-Leninist" (or in some cases "Maoist"), what have they   
   done against this?   
      
   In practically all of the cases, nothing, nada, zilch, Or even worse, they   
   directly have supported this arch-reactionary and counter-revolutionary   
   warfare, in several countries actually supplying much of the storm-troopers for   
   it, in "manifestations" etc "complaining" that the ruling reactionaries are   
   "not destroying modern technology and modern industry fast enough", "are not   
   creating enough of mass unemployment" and "are not preventing development of   
   the poorer countries strongly enough".   
      
   Now it's a fact that practically all of of the earlier existing   
   Marxist-Leninist parties or groups, in the "richer" countries at least - and   
   most of them were quite weak or even doubtful, to begin with - have been   
   smashed completely by the imperialists.   
      
   So individual Leftists, who have had little chance of getting to know what was   
   really going on in this respect, cannot be blamed all that much for having been   
   fooled into taking part in such reactionary things.   
      
   And socialism in China was smashed also, in 1976-78, before the actual   
   communists there (apparently) got to know what was going on - Mao Zedong, for   
   instance, never did (re-)discover and expose publicly the main motive behind   
   that "green" warfare which had begun in some countries already in his time.   
      
   But in the long time since then, any party that really knew something of   
   Marxism must have seen it; any party that in any way whatsoever was on the side   
   of the proletariat and the oppressed peoples would have been obliged to counter   
   that massive "green" warfare in the most decided manner.   
      
   Only one - that I know of - did so, that small "NE" in Germany which I've   
   mentioned. [Added in this Info (#287en): See "KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT)" in my   
   "Subjects in postings section.] And it degenerated in the 1980s; very precisely   
   its no longer combating that "green" warfare consistently was the first   
   tell-tale sign of this. [Added in this Info (#287en): See Info #106en, part   
   3/7.]   
      
   What should those - unfortunately still very few, in the world - people who   
   know about the theory of Marx (etc) and also know about the reactionary nature   
   of the campaign against nuclear energy, and the other and parallel   
   anti-industrial campaigns do about this?   
      
   They absolutely should combat those campaigns, and should demand that any   
   organization which they're in and which is calling itself "a proletarian", "a   
   Marxist", one do this too.   
      
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   By which I meant, and am meaning, for instance you, of course, glparramatta!   
      
      
      
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   Rolf Martens   
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