RW Johnson: Ronnie Kasrils and other fraudulent revolutionaries

In this scathing critique penned by RW Johnson, he challenges Ronnie Kasrils' professed principles of supporting armed resistance to oppression, particularly focusing on Kasrils' apparent indifference to human rights abuses by groups like Hamas. Johnson accuses Kasrils and the South African Communist Party of hypocritically praising Soviet interventions in Eastern Europe while turning a blind eye to the suffering of oppressed populations and the discrimination faced by Soviet Jews. Johnson contends that their claims of standing with the oppressed are, in reality, fraudulent and questions why anyone should take them seriously.

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By RW Johnson

In his reply to Greg Mills (18 December, 2023) Ronnie Kasrils wrote that "I support the right of all oppressed people to resist and to resist armed oppression with armed resistance. My principles are universal, they apply to all situations."  This statement was made as part of Kasrils' attempt to extricate himself from the widespread revulsion created by the sight of his clear delight at the Hamas atrocities committed on October 7 last year: "They swept on them and they killed them and damn good. I was so pleased", he said, adding that he only wished that "we had been able to spring a surprise on the Boers and knock down a hundred of them". (So much for the MK claim of avoiding civilian targets.)

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