>>BOTH Australia (and allies) and Indonesia obviously. You don't have to
>>take sides.
>
>Indonesia is imperialist? How so, and by what criteria? This kind of
>vulgarisation is likely to get us nowhere, where you use imperialist as your
>own synonym for bad. I am disappointed, Julien.
>
>Macdonald
I knew I should have left this 36486th Kosovo-like thread alone. Nevertheless,
let's answer the questions...
I know there's not much use in using a dictionary with such words as
totalitarian, left, imperialist, etc. but since Mac is attacking me without saying
from which perspective, I can use no defense except the generic one...
noun: imperialism
1. A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
2. A political orientation that advocates imperial interests
3. Any instance of aggressive extension of authority
Indeed, this looks a bit like a synonym for bad, but it's more like a subcategory
in fact.
So, how does it apply? There was a big country, Indonesia and a small new
one, East Timor. The big one comes and extends its rule over the small one.
Simple enough for me. And definitions 2 and 3 also apply.
You could say that East Timor was not really a country but an imperial leftover,
but so was Indonesia, and so is the USA, and most countries. Are we going to
argue that the USA can not be imperialist towards Cuba because both
countries are colonial leftovers?
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