Re: Self Determination- Support It!

[aabdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Abdo)]

To my earlier simple question...
My position is simply, that marxists in the US and Britain, as well as
Germany and France should confine themselves to supporting a regional
self-determination that precludes intervention and involvement from the
imperialist countries.     Is that to be seen as giving support to
Putin?

Lou's answer-
<Yes.>

Why is that answer yes, Lou?      What more would you have the American
and European Left do?

I find this very interesting.     For a quarter of a century American
Trotskyists have been arguing repeatedly that they could not find the
time to build an antiwar movement.     That the conditions weren't ripe,
that the movement could not be pulled from the wind, etc., and so on,
and so on....

Now, at one and the same time, I hear that there is more even than that,
that should be done.     That we shoud not only oppose our own
government's actions, but that we can find time and energy both to
oppose other government's actions, too. Governments in the Third World.

Will this comment also need translation and interpretation also, into
....Fuck The Chechens, Down With The Chechens...... Fuck The Tibetians,
Down With the Tibetians...... Fuck the Kashmiri, Down with the Kashmiri,
ad infinitum?

After the loss of central planning in the Soviet Union, at least we
still have micro-management of world affairs from the comrades in the
US, Britain, France,and Germany.

What would the Third World do without our distinctive approach of
supporting their self-determination?

Tony Abdo