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Old 04-20-2007, 11:15 AM   #1
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This is fast becoming the convenient redefinition thread. Not initiating force does not make one a pacifist.
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Old 04-20-2007, 12:03 PM   #2
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Not initiating force does not make one a pacifist.
But there seems, does there not, a crippling unwillingness to -- actually win?

And I'd read from your quote not a Trotskyite root -- but an anti-Trotskyite one. These thinkers matured enough to drop Trotskyist philosophy and come up with something better -- and antithetical.
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Old 04-20-2007, 12:17 PM   #3
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If actually attacked, you fight to win in a way that is productive.

The problem with advocating the Neo Con position initiating violence is that is was borne of the Trotskyite desire for international socialist revolution. It is incompatable with the Western ideal of self-determination.
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Old 04-24-2007, 12:27 AM   #4
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If actually attacked, you fight to win in a way that is productive.
Yeah, right: allow the antilibertarian opposition the first strike.
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