[Marxism] Betancourt's halo [SIC] under spotlight

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Joaquin:
 
Unless one thinks that
kidnappings and the FARC are Colombia's road to  revolution
 
Reply:
 
Joaquin's distaste for the FARC at a time when they have come  under most 
pressure from the Colombian military, a US proxy, is revealing. His  distaste 
for 
what he describes as kidnappings, but which the FARC and their  supporters, 
struggling against the most reactionary regime in the region, would  describe 
as arrests (perhaps in the same way the Colombian state would  describe the 
imprisonment of FARC members, sympathisers, trade unionists  and leftists) is 
obvious.
 
So now presumably the FARC should lay down their weapons and surrender  to 
the neo-fascist Colombian state, thus inviting their own destruction and the  
destruction of the people they represent, as their development and  methods, 
borne largely of objective material conditions, are not  in accord with 
Joaquin's 
schema of a proper 'road to revolution'.
 
This isn't Marxism; this is liberalism. Betancourt is a  bourgeois politician 
with a vested interest in the existing property  relations in Colombia. In 
her pronouncements re 'negotiating with  terrorists' - and here, btw, I think 
we 
are entitled to know if  Joaquin agrees with the use of the word terrorists 
to describe the FARC - she is  no better than those Israeli politicians, among 
them Ehud Barak, who're making  the same noises with regard to Hamas.  
 
Betancourt can go to hell. Long live the FARC.
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