Randolph, I do not doubt for one second your sincerity and your good intentions in trying, via the promotion of stronger ties between the “left” parties throughout South and Latin America and the “left” parties — especially Partidul Comunistilor din Republica Moldova (PCRM) — from Moldova to contribute to a world in which the scourges of war and poverty are things of the past. However much I share these goals — promoting a real democracy throughout the world, eliminating poverty and imperialist war everywhere on the planet — I have to question your tactics. I believe that the mistakes which I see in your tactics flow from your not being in Moldova and from the fact that you don’t speak either Moldovan/Romanian or Russian. Allow me to explain.
For some time, you were promoting the idea that the “left” parties in South and Latin America should support both the PCRM and Partidul Moldova Unita (PMU) for these parties’ opposition to the placement by Washington of its so-called missile defense system in Romania. After I insisted to you that PMU is not in any sense of the word a “left-wing” party, but just a faction which, undoubtedly with the behind-the-scenes support and encouragement of Moldova’s right-wing Prime Minister Vladimir Filat (and probably from forces connected to Western capitols, as well,) split off from PCRM in December 2009. The split occurred after the PCRM refused to vote for Marian Lupu, the Alianta pentru Integrare Europeana (AIE)’s candidate for the Presidency. Lupu, as you probably know, was not only a member of PCRM, but the party’s choice for Prime Minister after the April 2009 elections. After the PCRM’s choice (Zinaida Greceanii) for Presidency missed the 1 vote she needed in Parliament, Lupu didn’t get to become Prime Minister. Literally a few days later, he left the party, joined Partidul Democrat (PD) and, while claiming to be “center-left” directed just about all of his attacks against PCRM and, following the July 29, 2009 elections, predictably joined the openly right-wing parties in an anti-communist governing alliance (AIE.) There is no questions whatsoever that Lupu and PD received money and behind the scenes political support from Washington and other Western capitols in order to overturn the PCRM government.
PMU is much the same, though it tries somewhat harder to maintain the pretence that it is against — and not effectively part of — the AIE government. However hard it tries, people aren’t stupid and very few who otherwise would have voted for PCRM will vote for what is effectively a pseudo-left satellite party of Prime Minister Vladimir Filat.
To your credit, you accepted what I had to say and began to suggest that the “left” governments/parties in Latin/South should no longer collaborate with PMU and PCRM, but just PCRM. In other words, you were convinced by what I (and not only I) have said about PMU and saw through this fraud, for which you deserve to be congratulated.
Now, however there is the matter of Oleg Brega and his curaj.net website.
Let me be very clear about this: Oleg Brega and the other people who contribute to/edit/run curaj.net will not be convinced by articles, no matter how well written, which plead for a multi-polar world, for socio-economic equality, for an end to Washington’s imperialist interventions around the world. For example Oleg Brega — and I actually met him once or twice — is a rather loathsome individual with hard-core right-wing views not far removed from Nazism. He “got his start” in politics around 2003 hosting a radio program in which he invited people to say whatever they want, though genuinely left-wing views were, to my knowledge, completely excluded. The views which he allowed to be spread over the airwaves were generally of a pan-Romanian nationalist character and some were genuinely Nazi. Brega denies that he is a fascist and always argues that he just allows people to voice their opinions. This, however, is patently false, as he himself suggested on air at least once that maybe the Nazi Holocaust was not such a bad thing.
Oleg Brega’s involvement in ultra-nationalist and (cripto-)fascist causes is a matter of public record; when, in 2006, former President Voronin (PCRM) was inaugurating the monument “Eternitate,” dedicated to Moldova’s war veterans, Oleg Brega and a number of other of members of his organizations Hyde Park and curaj.net protested nearby, praising the Romanian military-fascist dictator and wartime ally of Hitler Ion Antonescu, labeling all people who aren’t Moldovan or even Romanian in Moldova as “occupants,” etc. Brega has participated in a number of protests of this type. His brother Ghennadie Brega is currently a bit more open in his promotion of the pan-Romanian nationalist cause of the swallowing of The Republic of Moldova (labeled by such figures as “unire” — or “union”) by the Romanian state, but there is no question that these brothers, all their organizations and the other leading figures in them are motivated by national-chauvinist considerations and will under no circumstances pass over to the side of left-wing forces which promote interethnic understanding, socio-economic equality, resistance to US/NATO imperialist militarism, etc. I can give you countless examples of what these elements are really like, starting from the responses that their followers leave under your posts on curaj.net
In short, my advice to you is: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO CONVINCE SUCH REACTIONARY AND CRIPTO-FASCIST ELEMENTS OF THE RIGHTNESS OF YOUR CAUSE, OF THE CORRECTNESS OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN “LEFT” FORCES IN MOLDOVA AND IN SOUTH/LATIN AMERICA.
The current socio-political situation in Moldova is bad and getting worse; the only way out of this is to mobilize the working and poor masses, whatever language they happen to speak, against the AIE regime on the basis of a genuinely radical/socialist program which would raise the living standards of the masses. The small layer of super-rich people who run Moldova (and just about every other country in the world) would have to take a big haircut, but this is the price that must be paid for the elimination of poverty and backwardness in the world. In all honesty, I have very strong doubts as to whether the current leadership of the PCRM would be up to this task of fundamentally reshaping social relations — or at least starting to — in Moldova as an integral part of the world socialist revolution, but there is no question that essentially all the other political forces in the country (with the possible exception of Partidul Socialist din Moldova — PSM, Partidul Socialistilor din Moldova ‘Patria-Rodina’ PSMPR Partidul Agrar din Moldova PAM, all of which are fairly small) clearly represent the path of IMF-dictated capitalist austerity, integration into NATO, possible absorption by Romania, promotion of pan-Romanian chauvinism and a clear step backwards for the ordinary working and poor masses of Moldova.
Randolph, I do not doubt for one second your sincerity and your good intentions in trying, via the promotion of stronger ties between the “left” parties throughout South and Latin America and the “left” parties — especially Partidul Comunistilor din Republica Moldova (PCRM) — from Moldova to contribute to a world in which the scourges of war and poverty are things of the past. However much I share these goals — promoting a real democracy throughout the world, eliminating poverty and imperialist war everywhere on the planet — I have to question your tactics. I believe that the mistakes which I see in your tactics flow from your not being in Moldova and from the fact that you don’t speak either Moldovan/Romanian or Russian. Allow me to explain.
For some time, you were promoting the idea that the “left” parties in South and Latin America should support both the PCRM and Partidul Moldova Unita (PMU) for these parties’ opposition to the placement by Washington of its so-called missile defense system in Romania. After I insisted to you that PMU is not in any sense of the word a “left-wing” party, but just a faction which, undoubtedly with the behind-the-scenes support and encouragement of Moldova’s right-wing Prime Minister Vladimir Filat (and probably from forces connected to Western capitols, as well,) split off from PCRM in December 2009. The split occurred after the PCRM refused to vote for Marian Lupu, the Alianta pentru Integrare Europeana (AIE)’s candidate for the Presidency. Lupu, as you probably know, was not only a member of PCRM, but the party’s choice for Prime Minister after the April 2009 elections. After the PCRM’s choice (Zinaida Greceanii) for Presidency missed the 1 vote she needed in Parliament, Lupu didn’t get to become Prime Minister. Literally a few days later, he left the party, joined Partidul Democrat (PD) and, while claiming to be “center-left” directed just about all of his attacks against PCRM and, following the July 29, 2009 elections, predictably joined the openly right-wing parties in an anti-communist governing alliance (AIE.) There is no questions whatsoever that Lupu and PD received money and behind the scenes political support from Washington and other Western capitols in order to overturn the PCRM government.
PMU is much the same, though it tries somewhat harder to maintain the pretence that it is against — and not effectively part of — the AIE government. However hard it tries, people aren’t stupid and very few who otherwise would have voted for PCRM will vote for what is effectively a pseudo-left satellite party of Prime Minister Vladimir Filat.
To your credit, you accepted what I had to say and began to suggest that the “left” governments/parties in Latin/South should no longer collaborate with PMU and PCRM, but just PCRM. In other words, you were convinced by what I (and not only I) have said about PMU and saw through this fraud, for which you deserve to be congratulated.
Now, however there is the matter of Oleg Brega and his curaj.net website.
Let me be very clear about this: Oleg Brega and the other people who contribute to/edit/run curaj.net will not be convinced by articles, no matter how well written, which plead for a multi-polar world, for socio-economic equality, for an end to Washington’s imperialist interventions around the world. For example Oleg Brega — and I actually met him once or twice — is a rather loathsome individual with hard-core right-wing views not far removed from Nazism. He “got his start” in politics around 2003 hosting a radio program in which he invited people to say whatever they want, though genuinely left-wing views were, to my knowledge, completely excluded. The views which he allowed to be spread over the airwaves were generally of a pan-Romanian nationalist character and some were genuinely Nazi. Brega denies that he is a fascist and always argues that he just allows people to voice their opinions. This, however, is patently false, as he himself suggested on air at least once that maybe the Nazi Holocaust was not such a bad thing.
Oleg Brega’s involvement in ultra-nationalist and (cripto-)fascist causes is a matter of public record; when, in 2006, former President Voronin (PCRM) was inaugurating the monument “Eternitate,” dedicated to Moldova’s war veterans, Oleg Brega and a number of other of members of his organizations Hyde Park and curaj.net protested nearby, praising the Romanian military-fascist dictator and wartime ally of Hitler Ion Antonescu, labeling all people who aren’t Moldovan or even Romanian in Moldova as “occupants,” etc. Brega has participated in a number of protests of this type. His brother Ghennadie Brega is currently a bit more open in his promotion of the pan-Romanian nationalist cause of the swallowing of The Republic of Moldova (labeled by such figures as “unire” — or “union”) by the Romanian state, but there is no question that these brothers, all their organizations and the other leading figures in them are motivated by national-chauvinist considerations and will under no circumstances pass over to the side of left-wing forces which promote interethnic understanding, socio-economic equality, resistance to US/NATO imperialist militarism, etc. I can give you countless examples of what these elements are really like, starting from the responses that their followers leave under your posts on curaj.net
In short, my advice to you is: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO CONVINCE SUCH REACTIONARY AND CRIPTO-FASCIST ELEMENTS OF THE RIGHTNESS OF YOUR CAUSE, OF THE CORRECTNESS OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN “LEFT” FORCES IN MOLDOVA AND IN SOUTH/LATIN AMERICA.
The current socio-political situation in Moldova is bad and getting worse; the only way out of this is to mobilize the working and poor masses, whatever language they happen to speak, against the AIE regime on the basis of a genuinely radical/socialist program which would raise the living standards of the masses. The small layer of super-rich people who run Moldova (and just about every other country in the world) would have to take a big haircut, but this is the price that must be paid for the elimination of poverty and backwardness in the world. In all honesty, I have very strong doubts as to whether the current leadership of the PCRM would be up to this task of fundamentally reshaping social relations — or at least starting to — in Moldova as an integral part of the world socialist revolution, but there is no question that essentially all the other political forces in the country (with the possible exception of Partidul Socialist din Moldova — PSM, Partidul Socialistilor din Moldova ‘Patria-Rodina’ PSMPR Partidul Agrar din Moldova PAM, all of which are fairly small) clearly represent the path of IMF-dictated capitalist austerity, integration into NATO, possible absorption by Romania, promotion of pan-Romanian chauvinism and a clear step backwards for the ordinary working and poor masses of Moldova.
I not only welcome responses from any of you — in any language — regarding what I wrote here, but also am more than willing to discuss anything which relates in one way or another to Moldovan, regional and world politics and economics.
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Senior Piazza,
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Randolph, I do not doubt for one second your sincerity and your good intentions in trying, via the promotion of stronger ties between the “left” parties throughout South and Latin America and the “left” parties — especially Partidul Comunistilor din Republica Moldova (PCRM) — from Moldova to contribute to a world in which the scourges of war and poverty are things of the past. However much I share these goals — promoting a real democracy throughout the world, eliminating poverty and imperialist war everywhere on the planet — I have to question your tactics. I believe that the mistakes which I see in your tactics flow from your not being in Moldova and from the fact that you don’t speak either Moldovan/Romanian or Russian. Allow me to explain.
For some time, you were promoting the idea that the “left” parties in South and Latin America should support both the PCRM and Partidul Moldova Unita (PMU) for these parties’ opposition to the placement by Washington of its so-called missile defense system in Romania. After I insisted to you that PMU is not in any sense of the word a “left-wing” party, but just a faction which, undoubtedly with the behind-the-scenes support and encouragement of Moldova’s right-wing Prime Minister Vladimir Filat (and probably from forces connected to Western capitols, as well,) split off from PCRM in December 2009. The split occurred after the PCRM refused to vote for Marian Lupu, the Alianta pentru Integrare Europeana (AIE)’s candidate for the Presidency. Lupu, as you probably know, was not only a member of PCRM, but the party’s choice for Prime Minister after the April 2009 elections. After the PCRM’s choice (Zinaida Greceanii) for Presidency missed the 1 vote she needed in Parliament, Lupu didn’t get to become Prime Minister. Literally a few days later, he left the party, joined Partidul Democrat (PD) and, while claiming to be “center-left” directed just about all of his attacks against PCRM and, following the July 29, 2009 elections, predictably joined the openly right-wing parties in an anti-communist governing alliance (AIE.) There is no questions whatsoever that Lupu and PD received money and behind the scenes political support from Washington and other Western capitols in order to overturn the PCRM government.
PMU is much the same, though it tries somewhat harder to maintain the pretence that it is against — and not effectively part of — the AIE government. However hard it tries, people aren’t stupid and very few who otherwise would have voted for PCRM will vote for what is effectively a pseudo-left satellite party of Prime Minister Vladimir Filat.
To your credit, you accepted what I had to say and began to suggest that the “left” governments/parties in Latin/South should no longer collaborate with PMU and PCRM, but just PCRM. In other words, you were convinced by what I (and not only I) have said about PMU and saw through this fraud, for which you deserve to be congratulated.
Now, however there is the matter of Oleg Brega and his curaj.net website.
Let me be very clear about this: Oleg Brega and the other people who contribute to/edit/run curaj.net will not be convinced by articles, no matter how well written, which plead for a multi-polar world, for socio-economic equality, for an end to Washington’s imperialist interventions around the world. For example Oleg Brega — and I actually met him once or twice — is a rather loathsome individual with hard-core right-wing views not far removed from Nazism. He “got his start” in politics around 2003 hosting a radio program in which he invited people to say whatever they want, though genuinely left-wing views were, to my knowledge, completely excluded. The views which he allowed to be spread over the airwaves were generally of a pan-Romanian nationalist character and some were genuinely Nazi. Brega denies that he is a fascist and always argues that he just allows people to voice their opinions. This, however, is patently false, as he himself suggested on air at least once that maybe the Nazi Holocaust was not such a bad thing.
Oleg Brega’s involvement in ultra-nationalist and (cripto-)fascist causes is a matter of public record; when, in 2006, former President Voronin (PCRM) was inaugurating the monument “Eternitate,” dedicated to Moldova’s war veterans, Oleg Brega and a number of other of members of his organizations Hyde Park and curaj.net protested nearby, praising the Romanian military-fascist dictator and wartime ally of Hitler Ion Antonescu, labeling all people who aren’t Moldovan or even Romanian in Moldova as “occupants,” etc. Brega has participated in a number of protests of this type. His brother Ghennadie Brega is currently a bit more open in his promotion of the pan-Romanian nationalist cause of the swallowing of The Republic of Moldova (labeled by such figures as “unire” — or “union”) by the Romanian state, but there is no question that these brothers, all their organizations and the other leading figures in them are motivated by national-chauvinist considerations and will under no circumstances pass over to the side of left-wing forces which promote interethnic understanding, socio-economic equality, resistance to US/NATO imperialist militarism, etc. I can give you countless examples of what these elements are really like, starting from the responses that their followers leave under your posts on curaj.net
In short, my advice to you is: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO CONVINCE SUCH REACTIONARY AND CRIPTO-FASCIST ELEMENTS OF THE RIGHTNESS OF YOUR CAUSE, OF THE CORRECTNESS OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN “LEFT” FORCES IN MOLDOVA AND IN SOUTH/LATIN AMERICA.
The current socio-political situation in Moldova is bad and getting worse; the only way out of this is to mobilize the working and poor masses, whatever language they happen to speak, against the AIE regime on the basis of a genuinely radical/socialist program which would raise the living standards of the masses. The small layer of super-rich people who run Moldova (and just about every other country in the world) would have to take a big haircut, but this is the price that must be paid for the elimination of poverty and backwardness in the world. In all honesty, I have very strong doubts as to whether the current leadership of the PCRM would be up to this task of fundamentally reshaping social relations — or at least starting to — in Moldova as an integral part of the world socialist revolution, but there is no question that essentially all the other political forces in the country (with the possible exception of Partidul Socialist din Moldova — PSM, Partidul Socialistilor din Moldova ‘Patria-Rodina’ PSMPR Partidul Agrar din Moldova PAM, all of which are fairly small) clearly represent the path of IMF-dictated capitalist austerity, integration into NATO, possible absorption by Romania, promotion of pan-Romanian chauvinism and a clear step backwards for the ordinary working and poor masses of Moldova.
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Randolph, I do not doubt for one second your sincerity and your good intentions in trying, via the promotion of stronger ties between the “left” parties throughout South and Latin America and the “left” parties — especially Partidul Comunistilor din Republica Moldova (PCRM) — from Moldova to contribute to a world in which the scourges of war and poverty are things of the past. However much I share these goals — promoting a real democracy throughout the world, eliminating poverty and imperialist war everywhere on the planet — I have to question your tactics. I believe that the mistakes which I see in your tactics flow from your not being in Moldova and from the fact that you don’t speak either Moldovan/Romanian or Russian. Allow me to explain.
For some time, you were promoting the idea that the “left” parties in South and Latin America should support both the PCRM and Partidul Moldova Unita (PMU) for these parties’ opposition to the placement by Washington of its so-called missile defense system in Romania. After I insisted to you that PMU is not in any sense of the word a “left-wing” party, but just a faction which, undoubtedly with the behind-the-scenes support and encouragement of Moldova’s right-wing Prime Minister Vladimir Filat (and probably from forces connected to Western capitols, as well,) split off from PCRM in December 2009. The split occurred after the PCRM refused to vote for Marian Lupu, the Alianta pentru Integrare Europeana (AIE)’s candidate for the Presidency. Lupu, as you probably know, was not only a member of PCRM, but the party’s choice for Prime Minister after the April 2009 elections. After the PCRM’s choice (Zinaida Greceanii) for Presidency missed the 1 vote she needed in Parliament, Lupu didn’t get to become Prime Minister. Literally a few days later, he left the party, joined Partidul Democrat (PD) and, while claiming to be “center-left” directed just about all of his attacks against PCRM and, following the July 29, 2009 elections, predictably joined the openly right-wing parties in an anti-communist governing alliance (AIE.) There is no questions whatsoever that Lupu and PD received money and behind the scenes political support from Washington and other Western capitols in order to overturn the PCRM government.
PMU is much the same, though it tries somewhat harder to maintain the pretence that it is against — and not effectively part of — the AIE government. However hard it tries, people aren’t stupid and very few who otherwise would have voted for PCRM will vote for what is effectively a pseudo-left satellite party of Prime Minister Vladimir Filat.
To your credit, you accepted what I had to say and began to suggest that the “left” governments/parties in Latin/South should no longer collaborate with PMU and PCRM, but just PCRM. In other words, you were convinced by what I (and not only I) have said about PMU and saw through this fraud, for which you deserve to be congratulated.
Now, however there is the matter of Oleg Brega and his curaj.net website.
Let me be very clear about this: Oleg Brega and the other people who contribute to/edit/run curaj.net will not be convinced by articles, no matter how well written, which plead for a multi-polar world, for socio-economic equality, for an end to Washington’s imperialist interventions around the world. For example Oleg Brega — and I actually met him once or twice — is a rather loathsome individual with hard-core right-wing views not far removed from Nazism. He “got his start” in politics around 2003 hosting a radio program in which he invited people to say whatever they want, though genuinely left-wing views were, to my knowledge, completely excluded. The views which he allowed to be spread over the airwaves were generally of a pan-Romanian nationalist character and some were genuinely Nazi. Brega denies that he is a fascist and always argues that he just allows people to voice their opinions. This, however, is patently false, as he himself suggested on air at least once that maybe the Nazi Holocaust was not such a bad thing.
Oleg Brega’s involvement in ultra-nationalist and (cripto-)fascist causes is a matter of public record; when, in 2006, former President Voronin (PCRM) was inaugurating the monument “Eternitate,” dedicated to Moldova’s war veterans, Oleg Brega and a number of other of members of his organizations Hyde Park and curaj.net protested nearby, praising the Romanian military-fascist dictator and wartime ally of Hitler Ion Antonescu, labeling all people who aren’t Moldovan or even Romanian in Moldova as “occupants,” etc. Brega has participated in a number of protests of this type. His brother Ghennadie Brega is currently a bit more open in his promotion of the pan-Romanian nationalist cause of the swallowing of The Republic of Moldova (labeled by such figures as “unire” — or “union”) by the Romanian state, but there is no question that these brothers, all their organizations and the other leading figures in them are motivated by national-chauvinist considerations and will under no circumstances pass over to the side of left-wing forces which promote interethnic understanding, socio-economic equality, resistance to US/NATO imperialist militarism, etc. I can give you countless examples of what these elements are really like, starting from the responses that their followers leave under your posts on curaj.net
In short, my advice to you is: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO CONVINCE SUCH REACTIONARY AND CRIPTO-FASCIST ELEMENTS OF THE RIGHTNESS OF YOUR CAUSE, OF THE CORRECTNESS OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN “LEFT” FORCES IN MOLDOVA AND IN SOUTH/LATIN AMERICA.
The current socio-political situation in Moldova is bad and getting worse; the only way out of this is to mobilize the working and poor masses, whatever language they happen to speak, against the AIE regime on the basis of a genuinely radical/socialist program which would raise the living standards of the masses. The small layer of super-rich people who run Moldova (and just about every other country in the world) would have to take a big haircut, but this is the price that must be paid for the elimination of poverty and backwardness in the world. In all honesty, I have very strong doubts as to whether the current leadership of the PCRM would be up to this task of fundamentally reshaping social relations — or at least starting to — in Moldova as an integral part of the world socialist revolution, but there is no question that essentially all the other political forces in the country (with the possible exception of Partidul Socialist din Moldova — PSM, Partidul Socialistilor din Moldova ‘Patria-Rodina’ PSMPR Partidul Agrar din Moldova PAM, all of which are fairly small) clearly represent the path of IMF-dictated capitalist austerity, integration into NATO, possible absorption by Romania, promotion of pan-Romanian chauvinism and a clear step backwards for the ordinary working and poor masses of Moldova.
I not only welcome responses from any of you — in any language — regarding what I wrote here, but also am more than willing to discuss anything which relates in one way or another to Moldovan, regional and world politics and economics.
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