Re: [Marxism] Re: East Timor

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The left and UN military intervention in East Timor
<http://www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue14/14townsend.html>

by Terry Townsend <http://www.dsp.org.au/links/contact/authors.htm#Townsend>

http://www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue14/14townsend.html

Louis Proyect wrote:

> Nick Fredman wrote:
>
> > What analyses like these trend to miss out was that East Timor was
> > also thoroughly exploited by imperialist corporations *before*
> > independence - and that the mediation of this exploitation though the
> > not so tender mercies of the Indonesian military included systematic
> > execution and general repression of independence activists and anyone
> > trying to fight for East Timor's toilers (and that's since the near
> > genocidal mass terror and starvation tactics of the 1980s).
>
>
> Why am I not surprised that a DSP'er finds the analysis flawed. Given
> the fact that these comrades endorsed the "humanitarian intervention"
> that the article repudiated, they are forced to come to terms with how
> bad things have turned out. Hopefully, if as John Percy warns, the DSP
> is abandoning Cannonist principles, they might come to the point where
> a free-wheeling discussion about East Timor can take place. I know
> that in Cannonist groups, it is virtually impossible to have one.
> Crossing my fingers...


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