[PEN-L:11516] Re: Marxist response to East Timor

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:38 22/09/99 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
>Jim Devine:
>>But I'd like to know why you think that the Solidarity group violated
>>Marxist principles in their position on E. Timor. I believe that they back
>>the principle of the right of self-determination of nations, including the
>>independence of E. Timor. They just have a different interpretation of the
>>efficacy of the UN in helping E. Timor achieve achieve this goal than I do
>>(or you do). That is, it's a disagreement concerning fact rather than
>>principle.
>
>The United Nations, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, is a
>instrument to promote imperialist hegemony.

And it has no other contradictory aspect contained within itself?

despite the following remark? -

> the General Assembly has passed
>many worthy motions in recent years, including the controversial "Zionism =
>Racism" one.

Chris Burford

London