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["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Remitido por: Fred Feldman
Fecha: Miércoles 9 de Marzo de 2005 
Hora: 6:23
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> Well, Richard is sticking with the Taiwan nation against the "Great
> Han Chauvinists" no matter what.

Hope nobody will fall upon me with "political correctness" issues, 
but I hardly find a better beginning for this mail than this:

Seventy or eighty years ago, there was a brothel in Buenos Aires 
where the girls were not exactly beautiful but very experienced and 
imaginative at their job.  When the customers complained at the 
looks, the pimp used to answer "Watch 'em moving, not their faces".

We should all agree, I guess, that this was an interesting marketing 
device for that particular commodity -sexual pleasure and not 
aesthetic rapture- which a brothel is supposed to sell in the first 
place to its male attendance.  Well, I am afraid that same thing 
could be said of _lousy_ movements made by pretty faced people, even 
Leftist pretty faced people.  

Isn't it interesting that the whole argument on Taiwanese 
"nationhood" forgets the simple fact that while Taiwan can't match 
(nor, of course, challenge) US hegemony, China can, either if 
socialist or not?  Thus, while Taiwan cannot become a "nation" in the 
sense of a full grown, self-reliant, capitalist power, China can?

I have been following the kind of argument some CIA outfits like "Net 
for Cuba" emit against Hugo Chávez.  Last Monday they released a mail 
charging him with being pro-capitalist and thus a rogue  and 
immediately after it, another which charged him with being anti-
capitalist and thus a rogue.  While the second argument is clear and 
sound ("our whores move nicely"), the first one is a "pretty faced 
whore", and tries to cater to a particular kind of customer of the 
imperialist brothel.  Imperialists are not stupid, and they throw red 
herrings of this kind across any good hearted Leftist's path.

The world, however, is not organized by good hearted people. What 
really matters to the owners and rulers of "Net for Cuba" are the 
movements, not the faces.  That is, they do not care about 
ideological coherence, but they want people to rally against Chávez, 
who -at his own turn- challenges American hegemony in South America 
not with words but with facts, including words that _should be read 
as facts in a dialectical way, in the same way that facts should be 
read as words_.  

And in such a task, the NfC bosses will gleefully resort to anything 
that makes Left Wing pro-Chávez supporters waver.  That is, if you 
support Chávez because he is "socialist", and then you realize he is 
not, you will not support him any more.  Which is exactly what 
Washington wants.  This is the deep truth beneath the Catholic dictum 
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions".

Incidentally:  the article which proved that Chávez was for 
capitalism explained that in spite of all his bravado on "socialism", 
he was supporting capitalism --Chinese capitalism, that is!

"Net for Cuba" should be renamed "Net for USA", but then it would 
lose its impact.  Some "Net for Taiwan" may be produced now, which I 
am sure many "Leftists" will like.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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