Louis,
Gosh, I just said I wasn't going to say more on
this, but...
Ummm, but in Guatemala it was a minority of
the population that was suppressing a majority of
the population, just as in Kosovo-Metohija, whereas
in Turkey it is the majority that is suppressing the
minority, as in Nicaragua.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 2:19 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:6979] Rosser on Kurds/Kosovars
>> And of course, it remains the case that the Turks have
>>done nothing to the Kurds that is comparable to what the
>>Serbs have done to the Albanians in the last two months,
>>not even close, which was my original point in this thread.
>>Why are people so resistant to admitting this?
>>Barkley Rosser
>
>Because it is similar to the question, "Have you stopped beating your wife
>yet?"
>
>Also, you are approaching the whole question from a "human rights" angle,
>where the rest of us are trying to understand things from the standpoint of
>political economy and history. By analogy, one can say that Central
>American governments repressed indigenous peoples in the 1980s, from
>Guatemala to Nicaragua. For argument's sake, let's say that Rios-Montt was
>not quite as brutal as he was and that the number of displaced and murdered
>Mayans approximated the same number of Nicaraguan Miskitus. Would this lead
>to the conclusion that the conflicts were identical and the governments
>were equally culpable. What I've been reading about Kosovo in the 1980s,
>long before the termination of autonomy, is that the problems in Nicaragua
>and socialist Yugoslavia were of the same nature. Rising expectations of a
>traditionally disenfranchised people led to massive unrest. Imperialism
>intervened to take advantage of ethnic strife and provoke a
>counter-revolution.
>
>Turkey is a much different story. Turkey is Guatemala.
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>
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