"I know Gandhi better than you..."

--Babette, 2010
"An E-mail to Punkerslut"

     Hello again, Babette,

>>"I know Gandhi better than you, and his commitment to non-violence. I took part in the fight for Indian independence. You seem to know little about recent Indian history if you think the communists won our freedom."

     (a) Even if you were just a drummer-girl, you'd have to be 85 years old today. (b) Gandhi fought against the Bombay Mutiny that liberated India, not the other way around. (c) If you think you know more than me, correct the Wikipedia entry for the Bombay Mutiny and the History of India.

     Wikipedia: Bombay Mutiny

     Indian Independence Movement

     And... (d) Gandhi was somewhere between Socialism and Communism, two phrases that have been used interchangeably by the Catholic Church. So, either Communists who threw out the British created Indian Independence -- or Gandhi, the Socialist, cursed the Communists for throwing the British out. Either way, Indian Independence doesn't exist outside the realm of Socialism/Communism, that is, a system where the means of production are held in common by the people. You're aware that Gandhi said the most influential thing he read was "Letter to a Hindu" by the Anarchist-Communist Leo Tolstoy?

>>"Anyway I thought you didn't like communists?"

     It's worth pointing out a contradiction, isn't it? After all, you seem to love Indian democracy on the one hand and hate Communism on the other. The difficulty is that Indian democracy was established by Communists and unionists -- not Liberals, not Conservatives, not Nationalists, but complete anti-Capitalist revolutionaries.

>>"Quite a bit of poverty is caused by stupidity - take two identical twin brothers, same education, same opportunities. One decides to smoke, drink heavily and take drugs. The other does not. The first will fall into poverty."

     As you should be aware, more than 1.4 billion people are in extreme poverty, and 16,000 children starve to death everyday. I guess they're all a bunch of drug addicts? I have an idea. How about we just say that unborn fetuses are drug addicts, and then we can kill them, too? It's just as false, but as long as we're making up stupid reasons why we kill people, let's go all out, right? This is why most Pro-Life "activists" are not taken as sincere: at one point, they cry about the deaths of the unborn, and at another point, they laugh about the deaths of the born. Drug abuse, as an explanation for the widespread starvation among the world's children, is a joke, and I don't expect anyone would ever take it seriously.

>>"I am guessing you are a young schoolboy and need to grow up. Where in world have your revolutionary anarchists achieved your nirvana?"

>>"To end this silly argument, tell me where in the world has the system you suggest - and I don't even understand what it is - worked to end poverty?"

     Catalonia, 1936. But there, the Anarchists were blockaded by British and Americans. In fact, the British and Americans supplied arms, oil, and weapons to Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the Falange in Spain, to crush the democratic movements of Spain. You're aware that when Italian planes bombed innocent villages in the Basques, most of them filled with Catholics, that the British ministers in parliament got out of their seats and cheered? (See George Orwell's "Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War.") And the concentration camps, like Al Baderra, were built out of supplies sent from American forces. Again, as I mentioned earlier, the Catholic Church and the Pope himself blessed the planes that flew over Anarchist villages dropping bombs. And yet, the Anarchists provided everyone with bread and liberty.

     The Paris Commune was not Anarchist, but close to it. Two-million Parisian workers overthrow Capitalism and the State. They, too, who struggled to provide bread for everyone, were crushed by cannons adorned by the support of the Church. The Free Territory of the Ukraine, with a 100,000 strong, self-governing Anarchist Army, likewise gave bread and liberty. And even where Anarchist movements have not enveloped an entire nation, their impact is felt: India's independence, which was organized by autonomous, anti-capitalist groups; Paris overthrowing Capitalism in 1968; the Russian Revolution before the Libertarian elements were put in concentration camps by US forces (effectively making Lenin the de facto ruler); the Levellers of Britain in the 1600's gave land and bread to all, just as the MST today in Brazil is giving land to landless peasants by cooperative and non-authoritarian organizing.

     What was it that Catholics said to those who organized autonomous, Socialist communes and cooperatives in Paris? "You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you use them, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right left, back, forward, up, down; death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your mother, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" ("The Commune of Paris," by Peter Kropotkin, 1880.)

>>"Imagine, if you can, living in a one-room hut with a dirt floor, little or no shelter from the elements, no running water or electricity, in a community that has only dirt roads, no doctors or medical facilities, no police protection, no schools, no employment, where the average annual income is often as little as a dollar a day..."

     Yeah, I've lived like that in America, and I've seen teeming masses of children living like that. (See, I was quite young when I was homeless.) Hell, I've lived worse than that. No police protection? You're lucky. Being homeless is illegal in the United States and Britain, and an arrestable offense. I wish I had that. You're aware that police regularly execute homeless children in the largely Catholic Brazil, to cleanse the country? Of course Catholics raise no voice against the slaughter of the born, living people, just like it turned the other cheek when children begged for shelter from machine gun fire in Mexico.

>>"The World Bank has described the nature of poverty as follows:"

Source: Wikipedia: International Monetary Fund (IMF)

"In the 1960s, the IMF and the World Bank supported the government of Brazil's military dictator Castello Branco with tens of millions of dollars of loans and credit that were denied to previous democratically elected governments.[25]

"Countries that were or are under a military dictatorship whilst being members of the IMF/World Bank (support from various sources in $Billion):[26]"

     The World Bank are murderers. Would you listen to Hitler's program about eliminating poverty?

Sincerely,
Andy Carloff

"In the past population has been limited by war, famine and pestilence. Our organization hopes to accomplish the same end by the more humane method of limiting the birth rate."
          --Margaret Sanger, 1926
          "Americans are 'Headline Thinkers'"