Re: Re: Re: A slight advantage of poverty (was Re: Random thoughts on Big Brother, adv

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a [PEN-L:1475] Re: Re: A slight advantage of povert,
el 8 Sep 00, a las 7:43, Jim Devine dijo:

> At 10:26 PM 09/07/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >--Governments that throw people out of helicopters into the South
> >Atlantic have no business ruling anybody, let along waging war to
> >increase the number of people they rule.
>
> what if they dump them into the South China Sea? Brad, you're
> threatening to undermine the legitimacy of the US government (which
> also allied with the Argentine junta until the latter came into
> conflict with the UK, a more important ally).

Jim has hit the point, exactly. This thread, for him at least, seems
to have been a great primer in Argentinian politics.

The situation, however, was not of two kinds of "alliance".  What the
war brought to light was that _no matter what lies they had told to
the Argentinian high command_, the American military and diplomatic
circles (not to speak of the ones who are our main concern here, that
is the American ruling class, the bourgeoisie of the USA) had NEVER
considered the Argie butchers as allies, but as colonial subjects.

The revolutionary potential that was suddenly unleashed by the war
stemmed precisely from this astonishing (for the military)
realization: that they had never been, as they had been repeatedly
and syrupously told, the forefront fighters in the Third World war (a
war BTW that, as the Argentinian general of humble migratory origin
Cristino Nicolaides explained, had begun already with Plato, that is
twenty-five centuries before the First World War!). They had always
been the butler that listens to his master speak snakes and toads on
his ugly aunt, but who finds out that  he has been expelled from the
manorial house the very day that he makes a mischievous remark on the
auntie during a conversation between her and his master.

This is what the war revealed, and it is on this exact contradiction
that a revolutionary line of action could have been built. This
became crystal clear to any serious character in the tragedy (not, of
course, to petty bourgeois onlookers who were worried that their
little belongings be harmed by an eventual bombing on Buenos Aires).
Serious people put things differently: when Alexander Haigh came here
in order to "seek an arrangement", Galtieri took him to the highly
symbolic balconies of our House of Government, the balconies from
which Perón addressed the mass gatherings of the High Years of
Peronism.  There was a mass mobilization that naive Galtieri had
believed that would support his line of "negotiations between
partners in the same enterprise mediated by the United States" (this
was the only idea that lurked in our High Command's stolid brains at
the moment of launching the war, they did not imagine there would
seriously be any confrontation: just as Brad DeLong, they did not
believe in "nationalism", nor do they today).

Haigh was standing at Galtieri's side when Galtieri announced that
"we are not enemies of the United States, they are our adversaries".
A massive uproar then reached the balconies, from the same Square
that had been applauding the explanation given by Galtieri that we
were conscious that our rights on the Malvinas were just: the uproar
was clearly pointed to Haigh, and it simply said "Son of a bitch, son
of a bitch!".  Alexander High, who was later Sired by Meg
Bloodihands, made his mind definitively, and is quoted to have simply
said "This is Iran!"

In the meanwhile, a civilian, an antimilitarist, a lover of "western
democracy" and supermarket economics, duly paid the Argentine Foreign
debt to Great Britain, in the midst of the war. This gentleman,
Roberto Alemann, is one of the leading economists of Argentina today.
He is also one of the main culprits for our foreign debt, which is a
swindle and must not be paid.

By the way, whoever wants to have material on the Argentinian foreign
debt, please ask me, I will send it to you.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx