AUT: Korea

[Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/11/2004 2:01 PM, "Hex *" <shatterbreakseance@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A clarification here,
>
>> As for South Korea, I would say first off, the fact that the US did NOT
>> intervene against the democratization movement,
>
> IN 1987,

Yeah, maybe Iraq should get the Olympics...

>
>> seeing instead a re-composition of the capitalist class within its ranks,
>> and opportunities to utilize it, as evidence that the US does not mandate
>> third world dictatorships everywhere.  You also have to factor in the US
>> and Japan's intervention against killing Kim Dae Jung, who was the avatar
>> of this movement.  So, again, the composition of capitalism can change,
>> either through direct intervention by the imperial powers or via the
>> insurgence of a new capitalist class.
>
> Obviously they had intervened earlier againt Kwangju etc.  Anyways, I'll get
> to Thiago's response and Peter's enthusiastic equivocation of Hezbollah and
> Israel when I have time.

They didn't interfere with the independence movement, except for that time
they helped kill 3,000 workers, although we don't really know what happened
since every US administration since then has stonewalled, even refusing to
answer South Korean inquiries... Sheesh...

Besides, I would have thought that the Korean working class was the avatar
of itself, not Kim Dae Jung.

Thiago





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