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Putin speaks of new "Cuban missile crisis"

October 31 2007

Bush's plan for a missile shield in Eastern Europe is drawing continued opposition from Russian President Vladimir Putin. He called it a new "Cuban Missile Crisis"(1) and said he has a relationship of trust with Bush on such matters today.

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in 1962 when Russia placed offensive nuclear weapons in Castro's Cuba. At the time, arch-wrecker of the international communist movement N. Khruschev was in power in the Soviet Union.

Winner of the "Order of Lenin," Khruschev is proof that we communists do not always judge individuals correctly. Stalin gave him the medal,(2) but Khruschev went on to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union. It's an example why we cannot rely on who-oriented intelligence in general practice. It's easy to overlook the real proletarian leaders.

None of that needs to be debated anymore. However, today Gorbachev follows in Khruschev's footsteps. At age 76, he founded another doomed-to-failure Liberal party for Russia.(3)

Today we know that Gorbachev and Yeltsin took bribes from U.$. imperialism. So far in history, we would go further than Mao and say that there is not just a bourgeoisie in the party, but that the leaders of the Soviet Union and China had to be bourgeois in the 20th century.

Like it or not, the leader of the Soviet Union and socialist China was going to be in a position to take billion dollar bribes from U.$. imperialism. Hence, we have to say these leaders are bourgeois, maybe imperialists--even if they do not receive the bribes or do not want the bribes. A persyn's class position does not rely on "integrity." Lifestyle questions concerning bribery do not alter class.

The only question we have seen in history so far is whether the leader of a socialist state is held hostage by the proletariat or not. When the dictatorship of the proletariat is in power, it manages to hold its leaders hostage and force them to carry out the proletarian line. If leaders such as Khruschev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin carry out the bourgeois line all is lost, because they are already members of the bourgeoisie themselves simply by terms of the global class structure. The proletariat may also benefit from Marxist scientific "integrity" of leaders, but it's not a firm basis of anything. The proletariat has a difficult task to determine whether individual leaders carry out the will of the proletariat.

At some point in the distant future, it will become impossible for capitalists to bribe leaders of the dictatorship of the proletariat. However, such an advance has not yet been seen in history. In addition, there were also forces inside the Soviet Union and China that built a new internal bourgeoisie in the vanguard party. We Maoists have yet to succeed with this question, but others such as the anarchists have done even worse.

As for today's Cuban Missile Crisis, Bush has also said there is World War III brewing over Iran's nuclear energy program.(4) The solution is a Mideast deal of some sort, the pieces of which are coming together. Perhaps Jimmy Carter will travel to Iran or maybe Putin will again or perhaps the united $tates will offer Iran a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. Such are the sorts of questions needing answering, but MIM remains optimistic. Russian imperialism probably does not want nuclear weapons on its borders and also would like to see the Islamic world appeased by a settlement in the Mideast.

Notes:
1. http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2007/10/26/1918_type82914type82915_149706.shtml
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Lenin
3. http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.1791483.0.0.php
4. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN30205288