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Message Subject Aug 5 update. Interview with a Texan Living in the Donbass Ukraine. He lives 8 miles from the front. Lived there for a long time
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To be honest, I laugh at most "Communists" in the West. The vast majority are cowards, hypocrites and poseurs, whose "communism" goes no further than buying a Che Guevara T-shirt from Amazon, and maybe reading a book or two from which to endlessly quote. The fact that they sit in the West, doing nothing but criticizing us here is a perfect example. They spend more time criticizing their comrades than actually fighting real fascists. Ask any group of "Communists" in the West how many have actually killed a nazi. I have.

People whose "contribution" is nothing more than criticizing those who have done a thousandfold more than they ever will are beneath contempt. When I was in Cuba in 1995, I had a very enlightening discussion with a Cuban Army captain. I said I was a Socialist, and she said she was a Communist. I asked what the difference was, and she replied, "A Communist is someone who is willing to fight for Socialism." Being willing to fight means being willing to die. By this measure, there are very, very few Communists in the West. But I and my comrades in Essence of Time have earned the right to call ourselves Communists. It's high time those who call themselves "Communists" in the West, especially the US, do the same.

The people here in Donetsk have what it takes to be real Communists - a deep understanding of the theory and history, their own history of struggle, sacrifice, and victory, and real world experience of the rewards of Socialism as well as the evils of Capitalism and fascism. And they are willing to fight when they have to. I would say that even with its imperfections, the Donbass Republics are the vanguard and best example of what Communist people can do in the world today.

The USSR improved the quality of life in every single place where they exerted influence.

Who is your favorite Marxist philosopher, and who is your favorite Marxist pragmatist/strategist?

It is hard to pick a favorite. Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara were two of my earliest influences. Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, James Connolly were (and still are) some of my early heroes, and if not strictly "Marxist", they were true Communists, willing to fight for Socialism and justice. I read Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks" when I was in prison. Mao and Fidel, of course, Lenin and Stalin. Lenny Wulff's "Science of Revolution" was also influential. The greatest living Marxist writer in the USA today is undoubtedly Michael Parenti. I especially recommend "Blackshirts and Reds", (antifa).


—-Russell Bentley, from his own website

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