I was reading it when you posted that, it's really good. Kasama pretty much encapsulates my political positions - loosely Maoist and supportive of Maoist revolutionary movements, but with a critical approach to our part and present, theoretically and practically.

2009/7/14 Ian Anderson <ian.ndrsn@...>

http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/on-socialist-methods-and-the-stalin-era-purges/

Basically saying we as communists have to be open about our history, because otherwise the ruling-class gets the final say on the purges. This is part of the reason it'd be good to do a study on democratic centralism, and it reminds me of the UCPN(M)'s willingness to discuss why the socialist states of the 20th century succumbed to peaceful counter-revolution.

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