[Marxism] RE: Statement on Haiti

[gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't want to deal with Lil' Joe_Radical's glaring theoretical errors,
which have been disected by cmrd. Bustelo.

But his abstract, a-historical, schematic approach has led him to make such
glaring factual errors that a Haitian I know was so perplexed by Lil Joe's
assertion about the "6000 armed proletarians" that he asked me to verify
that he understood Lil Joe's english.

These 6,000 people are a collection of ex-officers, ex-soliders, ex-
Macoutes that the U.S. assembled in Santo Domingo to overthrow Aristide's
government.  When it looked like South Africa was going to be able to
deliver enough military aid that the masses in Port-au-Prince would be able
to run back this mercenary army. U.S. marines
 (the ambassador's bodyguard) hustled Aristide onto a U.S. military jet and
sent him to the Central African Republic.

But their claim for 10 years back pay is just an extortion-gambit they are
running against Latortue.  Aristide dissolved the army in 1995, closed the
barracks and laid them off.  Haiti doesn't have unemployment insurance.

Lil Joe_Radical, in my opinion, takes the squabbles between imperialists,
their lackeys, and the deluded UN forces who thought they were going to
Haiti to guarantee the peace instead of putting down a stubborn resistance.

The real resistance is in the streets, masses of poor Haitians, most
without steady jobs, who are demanding the return of their democratically
elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and who are willing to risk
death from those "6,000 armed p*s" of Lil Joe_Radical and the cops backed
by the UN forces to get their demand heard.

/greg

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