Re: Anti-Semitism and Suicide Bombers

Comrade Feldman was incorrect to write that the ends justify the means is a
Stalinist formulation. I surmise that Jonathon has taken a liberal moralist
position. He does not understand the dialectics of means and ends. Only
certain ends reach certain ends. As Trotsky so well put it in Their Morals
and Ours when he quoted LaSalle "For do not only show the goal, show the
path as well. For so closely interwoven are one another path and goal. That
a change in one means a change in another. And a different path gives rise
to another."

Jonathon I recommend that you study Their Morals and Ours. For the moment
there is a more concise definition. There is a quote in Their Morals and
Ours under section of the dialectical interdependence of means and ends.
   "A means can only be justified by its end.  But the end in turn needs to
be justified.  From the Marxists point of view, which expresses the
historical point of view of the proletariat, the end is justified only if it
leads to increasing the power of humanity over nature and to the abolition
of power of one person over another."

Glenn Kirkindall
Portland, Oregon
USA


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