Re: [Marxism] Kurdish vs Iraqi nationalisms

[DLVinvest@xxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/4/04 8:58:01 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> anti-imperialist unity on a world scale among the oppressed and
> exploited could only be forged on the basis of full recognition of
> national rights.
>
>
>
while I share your reservations about simplistic application of the label
'collaborationist" to the Kurds as a "nation" in order to deny them any national
rights to self-determination and enforce the definition of Iraq as a nation
devised by imperial fiat I am curious how you would define "full recognition [by
whom?] of national rights." There are many Kurdish formulations on this, by
the way, and they are being debated even now on all sides of the borders of
Kurdistan. Saddam and the Ba'athists were, above all, Arab nationalists. It 
seems
to me they ceased to be "progressive" and anti-imperialist when they took
power by killing off so many suspected communists, many of them Kurds, long
before the Iran-Iraq war instigated by the US.

Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr.
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