En relaci�n a Re: [CrashList] Self Determination- Support It!,
el 21 Aug 00, a las 12:19, leeenglock dijo:
> does anyone have to be the bad guy when the common
> people object and rise up against corrupt military
> dictatorships?
>
> rgds
> leelock
The problem is, there does not "have to exist" the bad guy. The bad
guy exists, and acts at the same time abroad and within your own
frontiers. I would add, even within your own minds, dear friend. That
is the basic point here.
Common people do not think in isolation, but in an environment
basically shaped by the information and the structures of
subjectivity and objectivity that their existential situation in the
world tends to mould. Of course, one of the basic tools in that
shaping is to conceal the fact that this activity takes place all the
time.
In the case of the "common people in privileged countries of the
globe", the influence of the establishment which fosters and furthers
exploitation of the globe is immense and I guess that one of the
reasons why this list exist is precisely to fight back against that
influence. Corruption of military dictatorships in the Third World is
simply the true face of the governments in the affluent countries of
the planet, which would not be able to keep even the appearence of
democracy that their citizens enjoy without those thuggish regimes.
Only that this basic fact is kept a secret for common people there,
and then they tend to believe that those dictatorships are a natural
product of those poor countries abroad. Well, they are not. They are
the natural product of First World domination and control of the
world scene.
Listen, leeenglock, I am an Argentinian, so that I have had to live,
for years, through the situation you describe. True, and fortunately
enough, not through personal ordeal but through those of friends,
related people and/or some of the best persons I knew in my life.
This allows me to bear witness and to alert against the
misunderstanding of the political consequences of "good will"
initiatives on our behalf when they come from imperialist
governments. I guess this is the best service I can do not only to my
fellow countrypeople but also to my own list of disappeared and
murdered (almost every Argentinian has one).
I will not burden you with a long recollection of my sad memories,
nor will I expose my aching wounds here. It is not my mood. Probably
this is one of the few national virtues of Argentinians: that we tend
to be shy when the moment comes to expose our pains. It is a form of
pride, after all. I beg you to take my words as valid on this point.
On the other hand this list is not the place to do so. We are
thinking about the Crash here, and the only thing I will say on this
is that those people who have such suffered lived their lives and
traversed their tortures and death because they were fighting in
order to give the Crash a humane outcome, at least an outcome more
humane than what seems to be now the only one at hand.
We Argentinians do also know what is the actual meaning of "good
will" imperialist worries about our own welfare. Once the military
that worked ON BEHALF OF THE IMPERIALIST POWERS become useless, they
were kicked away and Argentina was granted with "democratic rights"
and we too, as you say,
> benefit from not having villages destroyed,
> husbands and sons dragged off in the middle of the night
> never to come back, women raped by soldiers, etc.
Only that, when the solution comes from the imperialist centers, the
price is too high. Personal and individual rights, human rights, are
turned meaningless when the regime that ensures them at the same time
overrides and destroys the collective rights of the community. The
conditions of our "return to democracy" were the acceptance of full
destruction of the economic and social fabric that Argentina had
managed to build in a hundred years of social and political struggle.
Thus, the most progressive country in Latin America (socially
progressive, I mean, I am not speaking of ideology here) was turned
into a wasteland but, yes, no more violations to human rights were
accepted. The only violation now in motion is the generalized rape of
our country as such country. This is what will happen to those who
are now under the "tremendous" rule of Jakarta: they will fall under
the more terrible rule of a puppet regime or direct intervention from
the Empire.
Yes, dear friend, there is an obligation for those of us who believe
that the Crash is imminent to, as you say, see what the hell is the
"bad guy" trying to get from the mess. There is a good Christian
saying that I think is fit here: "The road to Hell is paved with
good intentions".
No human right is worth fighting for unless the struggle is a part of
the more general struggle for the basic right of the community to
which these individual humans belong, that is their right to cease to
be a puppet of the imperialists. If you ask me, I would give this
basic rule of thumb: what will strengthen people in Aceh more in
their struggle against imperialists (the true, actual, imperialists),
separation from Indonesia, or the struggle to revolutionize
Indonesia? I do firmly believe that the second path is the only valid
one, no matter the odds.
Thus, we take care of both human rights and the bad guys. Who not
only exist, but shape the whole structure of the world and are
merrily taking us to an apocaliptic nightmare of economic, social and
ecologic destruction. They are the ruling classes in the First World,
the true enemies of anything human (and natural) on this globe today.
Whatever benefits them is, certainly, for our tragedy.
So that I repeat my question, and I beg you to answer it, not to feel
outraged by it, dear friend.
N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky
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