Although press statements by the SA Communist Party are unworthy of comment, the letter by the SACP’s head of communication (The Mercury, March 2) is particularly amusing because of its obvious self-contradiction.
In eleven instances in its statement, the SACP condemns the ‘imperialism’ of the US-Israeli military action in Iran. That is ironic because communists have no right to be critical of imperialism when, since the dawn of communism’s tyranny in Russia, imperialism has been the modus operandi and strategy of Marxism-Leninism.
International law has never proved a roadblock to communism’s numerous incursions imposing its despotism on peoples. The SACP’s ostensible concern for the loss of life caused by US-Israeli action in Iran is totally bereft of sincerity when it is stacked up against the 100 million victims of communism under Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Castro and the likes of Mengistu in Ethiopia and Samora Machel in Mozambique.
If international law amounted to anything, how does the SACP simply ignore the tens of thousands of Iranians murdered by the theocratic Khamenei regime? How is it that a military operation intended to rid the region and the wider world of a serious nuclear threat, the key promoter of terrorism and the suppressor of human rights, is viewed by the SACP as “belligerent” and “reprehensible?”
By what stretch of logic can the bloody tyranny of the Khamenei theocracy be regarded as a “progressive force?”
Communism stuttered to an end in Russia in 1991. Its collapse was a result of its inability to continue enforcing a delusion which promised social equality by brutally suppressing the wellspring of human individuality – initiative and enterprise which flourishes only under liberty.
Thus, the trickle of press statements from the SACP is like a reincarnation of the staple Soviet fare once published by Pravda. At best, however, its statements are also proof that there are those who learn nothing from history.
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