Re: [Marxism] Re: The Black Scholar Editorial on Zimbabwe

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just in case anybody actually believes the claim that GLW has somehow
``chimed in'' with a campaign of Western imperialist governments on
Zimbabwe, they should check out the following articles:

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/402/23866

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/407/23577

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/405/23698

GLW's coverage of events in Zimbabwe has been informed by an
internationalist duty to both offer solidarity to that country's
embattled socialist and workers' movements against its authoritarian
capitalist regime and opposition to imperialist designs and hypocrisy
towards Zimbabwe. Our position has been informed by the views and
actions of the courageous socialist movement in Zimbabwe.

I agree with Louis and David, Marxists do not simply put a + sign where 
imperialism puts a - sign
(or a - sign where imperialism puts a + sign). If we had that approach
we would have supported (or at least remained silent on), among others:

* the repression of the workers' democracy in the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe prior to 1989

* the crushing of the Burmese democracy movement

* the crushing the 1989 Chinese democracy movement

* Milosevic's attempts to deny the Kosovan people's right to national 
self-determination, as well as his
other attempts to crush national movements oppressed by Serbian chauvinist

* Sudan's rulers' vicious mass murder in Darfur (and other less
publicised parts of Sudan) today

* denial of the Iraqi Kurds right to national self-determination.

Norm.


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