Re: Forwarded from Anthony

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On 10/24/01 6:49 PM,marxism-digestowner-marxism-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> My position is, that an anti-war movement in Argentina at that time
> would have aided British Imperialism. This was the position of the
> left in Argentina - which was illegal and working underground. It was
> the position of all the Trotskyists - the Internationalists if you
> will, and more or less of the Communist Party. It was the position of
> the Left Peronists.
(snip)

And what I was arguing was that while Marxists in Argentina should have
exposed the military adventure for what it was they should *not* have
opposed the war once it was underway or called for Argentine defeat but
instead argued that the war could only be won through revolutionary means,
by arming the working class, expropriating British capital in Argentina etc.
Taaffe says the same in Rise of Militant.

>
> Under such conditions, revolutionaries - of the socialist, communist,
> and Marxist stripe - should support an antiwar movement in the
> imperialist country, and oppose it in the oppressed country.

I agree.

Andy


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