CHAPTER ELEVEN LETTER TO MAX Robertsfors,Sweden Dear Max Just read your letter today on getting back from Malljorca an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Was there with my job with mentally undeveloped people. First I should say I received a letter from Bill S. He had talked to my daughters on the telephone and received a copy of my letter (Appeal). He described what he had been doing in the past and present. Wanted to hear from me about my situation. He thinks there is a good chance for amnesty orpardon because of "the furor over the recent McNamara book". I wrote him and gave him my "power of attorney" based on my letter! Funny thing but I have been getting numerous signals this year. 1. The people around Ramsey Clark who are kissing ass at cocktail parties in Washinton D.C. Wait till after the elections! 2. Lawyers who would like to investigate "the legal aspects" of my case. 3. Bill S.s letter which is not clear on what he exactly wants to do. I send you a copy. My position I think is quite clear. I stand on my letter - I will never say I am sorry - A pardon or amnesty I will except. I probably should demand a pension for service to my country and two weeks back pay , General Motors owes me from the time the F.B.I. walked into the tankplant I was working in and got me fired. However I have been modest in my demands without betraying any principles. Now to the more serious business of your letter! In my first letter to you my friend I said : "History is a pyramid of skulls". I think that you once again you over estimate the term "we won". Who was we during the second world war. A war buy the way which started between two imperialists capitalists blocs, on the one side the Allies on the other the Axis and finally the Russians who fought on both sides. Before we talk again about "who won". Let's talk about who lost. First and foremost in the 30ties it was the Spanish proletariat and later on the German proletariat. The Spanish civil war and the politics of foremost the Stalinists led to a crushing defeat of both the Spanish and the German workers. Stalin's alliance with Hitler against the Social Democrats led to the destruction of the workers movement, the trade unions, and finally the Stalinists themselves. The victory or victors of the second world war was certainly not we. It was a coalition of allied imperialist powers + the Stalinists. In Tereran they divided up the spoils of war. The Japanese proletariat was destroyed, however both Germany and Japan are once again powers to be reckoned with. Old historical facts are lining up the sides once again. Yugoslavia a good example where the Russians who fought the "Great Patriotic War" against the Nazis,s are lining up with the Serb Nationalists - The Germans with the Croatians i.e former fascists - The Americans with the Bosniens. But what and who are the victims the i.e. serbs,croatian,bosnian, poor and working class. I do not believe in a world of good guys and badguys (girls) in terms of reality. All my experience says that the main enemy is our own bougeoisie i.e., the fucking nuts who control things in our own capitalist imperialist country. We that includes me have been the victims of their policies for centuries. i.e. We are the pyramid of skulls they have built their world on. Only by organising ourselves against them can we win otherwise they will continue to have us killing one another! Max you certainly would not have survived the Nazis holocaust if they had won that is true. But the third world today are the victims of the victors of world war two. They do not gas them with Cyclon B but there methods are only slower and more vicious! How many Vietnamese were turned into dust by the American bombings? How many Iraqis and Kurds were turned into dust by Sadam and great Imperialist interests. How many more great victories do we need before Max wakes up to the fact, that we did not win the war just some battles!!! By the way saying we won to the bourgeoisie is correct, however we should never have any illusions about winning ourselves. Because we have not won. The we being me and poor and working class people everywhere. Now to the middle class. I have a theory that the middle class was created by the bourgeoisie so that they could use there armies for other tasks. During the coldwar the "Democracies" created a middle class from the profits of building up the ruins after the second world war. The Stalinists built up its bureaucracy based on the might of the red army and the KGB. Both were answers to their needs to control the poble i.e. me and my friends until the new war. Now that the Soviet Union has basically disintegrated, it is once again the major imperialist powers who vy for world domination. Now the middle class, some good examples, given in your letter very clearly shows their position. They change sides time and time again. There position is sort of like the peasants in Russia they can be manipulated by the historical forces i,e, working class people and the poor on one side and the ruling class on the other side. I only sympathise with the middle class when they take a position for myside i.e. draftdodgers for example. But I do not believe that working class kids who deserted trusted them. For very good reasons they new that these kids did not belong to there lives or class background. I think that the deserters gut reaction was extremely intelligent seen in a historical perspective. Because they know that sometimes they say this and the next time they say that. Meaning you working class poor creeps from the projects I am better than you because I have a Volvo and house, 2 kids going to Catholic school and I will stuff my feet down your throat to keep my handouts from the ruling class! Bravo! Of course Max I might be wrong and you right. However my lives experience and later by reading and discussing has not changed the basics. Of course there are numerous heroes of struggles throughout the centuries! You appear to be aquainted with many of them. I on the other hand thought cholate milk came from a brown cow until I was fourteen. It took me perhaps another 25-30 to realise that people like Teddy Roosevelt were far from the heroes that they taught me in public school and when I finally began to find out all this shit the American ruling class had the F.B.I., C.I.A., Naval Intelligence, local and National police after my ass in order to put me away. Some of my friends and they are still friends wanted me to nail myself to a cross. When I came to Europe the Maoists wanted me to read the little red bible - the Stalinists were organising "people's power" . The Social Democrats jumped on the Vietnam train in 1972 under the leadership of Palme. Today they are cutting up the welfare state with some bougeois friends. At the same time all this shit is going on the pyramid of skulls just keeps on getting bigger and bigger. One of the more recent examples was a 12 year old from Pakistan who was trying to point out the slave labor small children in these countries face in order for their fingers can make such fine rugs. He was murdered by the rug producers. Of course some of the biggest tears came from people who bought, walk on, and vacuum clean once a day the same fucking rugs. Another example is the recent noise about 20 years after Vietnam. A Social Democratic woman in the government proudly posed in the newspapers claiming: "I burned an American Flag" at a Vietnam demo. Of course a picture from 20 years ago. Well today the same woman in the government has put through cuts in unemployment, childcare, the sick, the old with her bougeois partners. And you are trying to tell me we won!!! Come on Max I can't believe you. Don't be angry Max but people like that are always trying to win. She is sitting where she sits and I am sitting here writing this letter. By the way the National T.V. wanted me to come down on the 27th and do a program live - 20 years after -. However I had promised my mentally undeveloped friends to go to Malljorca on the 26th of June so I had to say I could not. To bad I missed a good chance. They did the program anyway without me. It appears that there is a lot of nostalgia crap going on everywhere about Vietnam at least here the last week. People like these mentioned in your letter and mine about creeping out of the walls!!! Well I am still sitting here. No medals, No pardon, No nothing. But my kids love me! And my mentally undeveloped friends loved Malljorca! Talking about nostalgia how about a story.. (Here I write to Max about Atomic Bomb drills in the fifties,taken up earlier in this book.Authors Note) Take Care Max Bob The reason I keep fighting Max is because I can perhaps help some poor kids masturbating on a project roof today from making the same mistakes as I did. Besides historically what other choice do I have?