RE: [Marxism] Should the Iraqi resistance resume the 50-year warbetween Iraq and "Iraqi" Kurdistan ? Or, In defense of the "well-known national liberalism of Comrade Lenin"

["Jose G. Perez" <elgusanorojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman defends the "autonomy" of CIAdistan in northern Iraq with a
fantastic Iraqi bourgeois war of conquest that does not exist against a
Kurdistan that does not exist. 

The actual war of conquest that is going on is the U.S. bourgeois was of
conquest of Iraq. In response, the people of Iraq are waging a struggle
against imperialism and its local collaborators to drive the
imperialists out of the country. To say certain parts of Iraq are
off-limits in this war because the quislings are of Kurdish origin is
untenable.  

Let the Kurds develop some "autonomy" from the CIA and then we can talk
about Kurdistan. Right now Langley is in control of that region and the
Kurdish military units function as a subordinate part of the occupation
force. 

Whether the Sunni or Shiite bourgeoisie or Che Guevara reincarnated in
Muslim robes, whoever is leading the Iraqi forces does not have the
luxury of permitting continued U.S. occupation of Iraqi territory. It is
a simple, straightforward military matter. 

As Fred Feldman explains, but does not understand this IS the Leninist
policy: "In Georgia, a Menshevik-dominated coalition government was
actively involved against the Bolsheviks in the Civil War.  Here, as
part of the civil war, the Bolsheviks did occupy and 'sovietize' the
country, to the outrage of liberals and social-democrats everywhere." 

Fred brings in a whole boatload of completely *irrelevant* issues
(should we support an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? Of Saudi Arabia? Of the
Navajo Nation... Should we support the elimination of the Jews? of the
Croats? of the whales...?)

I am not talking about denying future recognition to some Kurdistan that
may come into being. I am talking about the policy in a war that is
going on TODAY within the internationally recognized borders of the
country of Iraq. In practical military terms, Kurdistan is not an issue,
just like respecting Georgia was not an issue for Lenin's Soviet
Government and Trotsky's Red Army: it had been part of tsarist Russia,
and as long as it was part of the white camp, THAT is how it was
treated. 

To talk NOW about "respecting" the "autonomy" of "Kurdistan" in the
context of this war is idiocy. War may be the continuation of politics
but it IS by other means, and those means have their own rules and
requirements and they are paramount. The leaders of the Kurds made a
choice to join the imperialist camp and the resistance does not really
have a choice but to deal with them on that basis.

José


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