> From: Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Who benefits by the death [of Laurent Kabila]?
A lot of Zimbabweans think they do, but it's premature to think the
12,000 troops will come home...
> We are right on the faultline that we debate in different forms: how much
> should the democratic deficit be overlooked in a country struggling against
> the dominant imperialism, or when is the dominant imperialism more
> progressive in that
Are you factoring in the dominant subimperialism here? That's
looting by Mugabe and his generals, of DRC's copper and cobalt, and
use of Zim's troops, effectively, as a national mercenary team...
> a) it is accelerating the tortuous process towards world government
Hope not!
> b) it is defending bourgeois democratic rights within the country?
Still dreaming, comrade Chris!