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Subject: Re: Mandela
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 01:15:05 EST
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I don't know whether to assume the response to my reading
recommendations was red-baiting satire or the earnest pleas of a
neo-communist revolutionary.  I would like to point out that the books
I recommended were not written or published by communist party
members, to my knowledge.  No matter how much some may want us to
think so, the belief that the South African white afrikaan minority
oppresses the black and Indian majority in that country is not
foremost a communist belief.  In addition, many non-communists support
the position of the ANC that violent response to the violence of the
current regime is justified.  I myself am not sure what I think of the
violent portions of ANC, but would condemn their violence less
stringently than the violence promulgated by the Botha regime, which
results in far greater suffering and loss of human life, and exhibits
not a shred of regard for basic human rights.

                        Thanx,

                                Will Doherty
                                UUCP: ...sun!oscar!wild
                                ARPA: "oscar!wild"@sun.com


        From: SMITH%SLACVM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
        Subject: Mandela

           In poli-sci V6 #95 Will Doherty suggests that we get our
        views on Mandela from amoung other works:

        >Mandela, Nelson.  "The Struggle is My Life." London:
        >International Aid and Defence Fund for South Africa.  1978.

           I bought my copy of this book from the same place that I
        bought Alex La Guma's "Apartheid": from the Communist Party in
        San Francisco I don't know of any group more interested in
        Mandela in the area than the CPUSA, their bookstores are
        overflowing with information and I suggest to everyone
        fortunate enough to live near an active CP (like we are in
        SF--Check your phone book!) to stop by and browse.  I am
        fascinated so see the CPUSA so-o-o involved in distributing
        these international materials. They even still have
        information about how great things are in Ethiopia now after
        the revolution. [...]
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