Macdonald wrote:
>
> I would take an anti-imperialist butcher ahead of a "democratic" statesman
> as an advance for the global working class and the existence of
> the planets
> livability every time, it is more what is true democracy. Considering how
> outlandish this must sound to you, I guess I'll leave this here
> and get back
> to systemic analysis of what is happeneing around us.
>
I think that's right; we need to get back to the topic. Theer are several
ways Indonesia is potentially very important to the Crash, and they concern
the dynamic interactions between energy crisis; the fate of the Asian
co-prosperity sphere, and the geopolitical stability of the ASEAN
architecture at a time of tectonic movements between Japan, China and the
USA. I think we should spend less time discussing the rights and wrongs of
self-determination in the abstract, or or which imperialism or
sub-imperialism is worse than another, and concentrate on (a) DATA, hard
facts, and (b) world-system-level analysis of the Indonesian conjuncture,
again with much more data and facts and much less opinion.
Otherwise we are surely missing an opportunity. While the US is certainly a
more civilised, democratic society than Indonesia, this civility and
prosperity is unsustainable and has been bought at a price which the
planetary ecosphere cannot afford. That is the real iss. We are examining
breakpoint, moments of collapse, first in the outliers of the world-system
(Russia, Indonesia) and then nearer the cores.
Mark
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