Starvin Larry

Southern Sage responds to critics of an article SLL posted yesterday. From Southern Sage at theburningplatform.com:

I recently wrote an article about the death of Victor Jara, a Chilean Communist folk singer, and the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile, carried out by General Augusto Pinochet.  A number of readers expressed some skepticism about the article or objected to my central point, that hard choices and hard measures have to be taken to deal with Communists before they deal with you.  By “Communists” I do not mean just members of “official” Communist parties, who are often pen-pushing, lazy nobodies.

I include all Marxists who believe that they have a right to use violence or other extra-legal means to impose their will on ordinary people.  This most certainly includes Marxists who claim that they want to use democratic means to impose a Marxist state of any description.  My view, simply…