Excellent point.
Friendly,
Andrej Grubacic
co-founder of www.resistancenet.org
I am a patriot. What is a patriot? Man who fights his own nationalism. Man
who demystifies, who deconstructs, the image of Hero.That is what patriotism
is".
Gazi Kaplan, Albanian poet
----- Original Message -----
From: TAHIR WOOD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:58 PM
Subject: [CrashList] Re: Tony Abdo's defense of Chomsky
> I think that what this debate reflects with wonderful
> clarity is what Fanon called the "pitfalls of the national
> consciousness". This is linked to the debate that some of us
> had just a little earlier. A purely national consciousnes
> rallies to defend the leadership of the "oppressed nation"
> as its bulwark against imperialism. But an anti-imperialism
> that is not thoroughly guided by anti-capitalist and
> anti-bourgeois radicalism simply becomes a defence of
> scoundrels, opportunists and tin-pot dictators. These latter
> are demagogues who know the political and rhetorical value
> of "anti-imperialism" only too well. But what is so
> deceiving is that their rhetoric always contains a grain of
> truth. My point is that we need so much more than this
> little nationalist grain of truth.
> Tahir
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