"The ends, as the saying goes, supposedly justify the means. They should be warned: This is bad politics, bad strategy, and even worse tactics. There are political consequences to such efforts to confuse and cover-up the real issues confronting the working class. "
A politically literate socialist might recall Leon Trotsky's analysis of the " dialectical " relationship between means and ends in his still powerful essay " Their Morals and Ours ".
To be sure , Trotsky was always true to himself , a paragon of revolutionary morality- if not the absolute morality reserved for a few saints.
His main point : the just end of liberating the working class of the whole world -not just favored countries - is best served by selecting ONLY those means which serve that end . TRUTH is indeed subversive and the rejection of objective reality can only serve the corrupt ideologues of the ruling class.
A slave mentality will never free the slaves !
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