Norman Finkelstein REACTS To Israeli Embassy Staffers Shooting | Useful ...[ Whenever I read striking examples of moral effluvia in the bourgeois news media I am reminded of Leon Trotsky's essay " Their Morals and Ours "]

Whenever I read striking examples of moral effluvia in the bourgeois news media I am reminded of Leon Trotsky acerbic and brilliant essay " Their Morals and Ours " . Trotsky also wrote many articles condemning " individual terrorism ". He pointed out that THE SYSTEM will survive attacks on prominent individual servants of capitalism and imperialism. And unthinking violence will give THE SYSTEM excuses for more state violence and repression. No revelation of " ULTIMATE EVIL " in the hearts of the public representatives of the bourgeoisie when reading about well documented GENOCIDE in Gaza, Palestine ? With stale Wilsonian blather that was false more than a century ago, rally the exploited and oppressed working class of America for nuclear World War III against " ULTIMATE EVIL " ! And with our dear ally Zionist APARTHEID Israel ! Young people of military recruiting age : JOIN THE GREAT CRUSADE ? Moral Effluvia Leon Trotsky [ "DURING AN EPOCH OF triumphant reaction, Messrs. democrats, social-democrats, anarchists, and other representatives of the “left” camp begin to exude double their usual amount of moral effluvia, similar to persons who perspire doubly in fear. Paraphrasing the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount, these moralists address themselves not so much to triumphant reaction as to those revolutionists suffering under its persecution, who with their “excesses” and “amoral” principles “provoke” reaction and give it moral justification. Moreover they prescribe a simple but certain means of avoiding reaction: it is necessary only to strive and morally to regenerate oneself. Free samples of moral perfection for those desirous are furnished by all the interested editorial offices. The class basis of this false and pompous sermon is the intellectual petty bourgeoisie. The political basis – their impotence and confusion in the face of approaching reaction. Psychological basis – their effort at overcoming the feeling of their own inferiority through masquerading in the beard of a prophet. A moralizing Philistine’s favorite method is the lumping of reaction’s conduct with that of revolution. He achieves success in this device through recourse to formal analogies. To him czarism and Bolshevism are twins. Twins are likewise discovered in fascism and communism. An inventory is compiled of the common features in Catholicism – or more specifically, Jesuitism – and Bolshevism. Hitler and Mussolini, utilizing from their side exactly the same method, disclose that liberalism, democracy, and Bolshevism represent merely different manifestations of one and the same evil. The conception that Stalinism and Trotskyism are “essentially” one and the same now enjoys the joint approval of liberals, democrats, devout Catholics, idealists, pragmatists, and anarchists. If the Stalinists are unable to adhere to this “People’s Front”, then it is only because they are accidentally occupied with the extermination of Trotskyists. " ]