[Marxism] Re: Australian troops back in East Timor

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Tom: So there is quite a bit of of evidence backing up what is surely common
sense: a popular military intervention abroad ? presenting itself as
liberation and not just accepted but DEMANDED by most of the left, from
the unions through to the DSP ? is going to legitimise militarism. It
would be strange if it didn?t.

CF: The intervention was DEMANDED by most of the left but OPPOSED
by the Howard government. It has certain negative implications in the same
way that the civil rights movement or the feminist movement have had certain
negative implications in alienating conservative white males. That's life.



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