Julien writes to Nestor-
<My understanding is rather that until 1945 (or until 1989 if you
include the USSR & co. in the implerialist group) the imperialist powers
routinely used the proceeds of colonial exploitation against one another
and were willing to aid anti-imperialists in the territory of an
opponent power.>
Aw come on Julien, it 's hard to know sometimes whether you're pulling
our leg. Do you really believe what you are writing when you write
stuff like this? You would have us picture a divided and quarrelling
imperialist First World, and I have no idea what you would have us see
in the Third World? Unity?
You ignore The Marshall Plan, unity of imperialst countries in The Cold
War, unity in action of the imperialist countres in The Middle East to
rob oil resources, unity of action in the bombardment of Yugoslavia, and
the list could, AND SHOULD, be stretched on and on.
Of course, you still have difficulties in not putting Indonesia and
Russia into the list of imperialist countries. So maybe 'imperialism'
as you define it, does actually seem disjointed in its unity? But I
still just think you're pulling our leg, and dumping on any efforts to
demarcate clearly, basic divisions in the world. Did you get this
tendency from the academic world?
I know that this seems somewhat a rude reply, but it seems like you are
almost wasting our time with this sort of silliness.
Sincerely, Tony
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