Internet Statement 2004-22
Some Points About Military Principles - Suicide Attacks
4/25-2004
I.
What is military
struggle? Military struggle means that certain nations or social stratifications,
classes or alliances among such wage a war and in this way attempt to
force their will upon the opponent. Or else they try to prevent the opponent
from forcing the will upon them. The armed struggle is waged in such a
way that the opponents' military
forces are put out of action as far as possible, whereas the own forces are preserved as far as possible.
However, these most simple observations about the war, which can be retrieved
roughly in this fashion in every theoretical textbook, also have a deeper
meaning with regard to revolutionary struggle. If e.g. an inferior force
fights against a superior one but in the essence represents the majority,
then it always has chances based on the fact that every hegemonist, regional
or worldwide, any force which represents an unjust cause, has many opponents. Therefore there is the chance to wage
a successful military struggle also from the position of inferior forces,
together with the allies and with regard to the numerous contradictions
in which the opponent becomes entangled.
A just cause can find broad support, an unjust cause cannot find
broad support. And this is important even if the military relationship
is strongly in favor of the old, unjust forces at the beginning.
Those who start a struggle against a superior unjust exploiting state power
count, therefore, on winning political factors which help them in the
political and military figth. This requires political thinking, this requires
analyzing the position of one's own, it requires the conscientious examination
of the correctness of one’s own cause. One must be capable of putting
one's own cause into question, too.
A great importance therefore befits the considerations how one wages a
struggle, how to lead it as effectively as possible and also with as little
bloodshed as possible.
Now, there are people who directly or indirectly speak about that method of suicide attacks as clever and justified
military tactics. However, what does somebody who prepares for a suicide
attack do? He doesn't need to consider
how to proceed tactically, how to spare the own energies if possible;
he simply passes to where the masses are, a bus stop or in front of a
large office or at best in front of a military compound, and blows himself
up into the air. It’s is very simple: Allah receives him and takes him
as a martyr to his Kingdom of Heaven. This is in its essence a completely
corrupt ideology, which does not need to consider the material conditions
of the struggle, the question how justified a struggle is or not, the
question how broadly it is possible to win support.
It is a deeply unjust fight which is waged there, and in most cases
it actually attacks the masses. In connection with the Madrid attack the
bureaucrats and the official commentators in the media had a cynical concept
available: attack against "soft targets", against crowds of
people. We know, however, who denies for a large part the masses the right
to exist, who would like to cut down their demands for their lives and
to deprive them of their rights. Those who stir hatred against the masses
sympathize indirectly with such deeds.
This is the personification of high-grade reaction. It has to do nothing
with heroism or martyrdom, it is just simply corrupt. It is primitive
simply to go among the civilian population to blow oneself up into the
air and to think this is a military blow hitting the opponent. Of course
this is not, because the reactionaries always profit from such tactics,
and states and nations which tolerate such tactics deliver themselves
to the further terror of reactionaries of a different types. It is no
wonder that the Zionists, who themselves represent loads of brutality
and opposition against history, are uncovering, to a certain extent rightly,
the helplesseness and weakness of Hamas. They themselves have promoted
Hamas in the past, they themselves have promoted and instigated every
wrong trend among the Arabs, now they are able under these conditions
to play their trumps. A number of attacks from the history of the Zionists
show, by the way, a handwriting quite similar to the present fundamentalists’
attacks.
II.
Worst further attacks have to be feared, indeed, and there actually is
only one answer under all conditions on such a form of most reactionary
warfare: one must never give in to the extortion, no matter what happens,
even if they commit nuclear terrorism or poison attacks or other misdeeds.
As a second rule must be established that nowhere the decades of close
connection of the Islamists with the USA, their secret services, or other powers being in connection with them must be overlooked.
The substance of these forces, the originators as well as the implementators,
is reactionary up to the extreme, they protest against the modern world
of work and science, against the pressure exerted by the modern conditions
upon their reactionary rules of a closed society, of the special massive
oppression of woman, of the promotion of idleness and fatalism. To oppose
that by detonating bombs against the population or by simply packing a
car full with bombs and letting it go into the air somewhere with as many
victims among the population as possible is reactionary despicableness
by its substance. These primitive reactionary tactics can be fought if
the will is there, it is just necessary to attack the centers from which
they are being steered.
Therefore the whole propaganda which directly or indirectly represents
such deeds as a result of despair must be fought, too. They aren't result
of despair. This methodology is promoted systematically, there are camps
which operate with the "reward of martyrdom " and prepare the
perpetrators for these tasks. So it is not at all despair but a system
with a whole lot of money in the background, and the despair and the hopelessness
of the struggle against the imperialistic atrocities under the present
conditions are just made use of for organizing unscrupulous reactionary
massacres.
Mass butchery was the substance of the Madrid attacks, terror against the
working classes. And nevertheless there still are leftists which claim
that the Islamistic terrorism has to do something with a just movement
and that we would have to treat Islam especially caringly. One must criticize
Islam in the strongest possible terms because it just promises that such
a behavior is something honorable and is rewarded by Allah with the martyr's
crown. One must attack the ideology, that such a flight from reality is
something noble and progressive. Exactly this is a corrupting ideology.
So one can say that Islam spreads corrupting ideologies. Other religions
do this as well but here this is carried to the extremes.
Hartmut Dicke
Translation from the German original
Einiges
über militärische Prinzipien - Selbstmordanschläge
Important
Quotes
- US' Connections with Islamist Terrorists up to Recent Times
(Sept 2001)
As for a long time feared for the case of political intensification- unprecedented repulsive terrorism - The question for the backgrounds Sept 12, 2001
How
to Deal with the Question of Islam
(a contribution of Hartmut Dicke at the London workshop Nov. 3rd 2001)
Read as well the article The
State-Connection from April 4, 1992, giving a summarizing
description of the more than 20 years lasting terror-campaign in our country
and uncovering a lot about the principles and the ways of proceeding.
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