In a message dated 02/09/2001 1:07:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Jared, you simply are not addressing the issues I raised, which go right
to the
heart not only of your understanding of what is happening in Russia (pretty
scanty,
I have to say) but to your understanding of the modalities of modern
imperialism and
its centre-periphery articulations >>
I've always been weak on that center-periphery stuff. You (Mark) think I am
missing the point. I think you are missing the point, which is sovereignty.
I think this is a big point to miss for those of us who are residents of the
U.S. and its Establishment's teacher, the English ruling class. I think we
need to rather strongly expose the attempt to justify attacks on sovereignty
cloaked in attacks on corruption - which are, as it happens, the rage.
(Philippines, Russia, Zimbabwe, Congo, and on and on). Let the Russians
decide who is what in their country - we should be focusing on what England
and the U.S. are doing: humiliating and demoralizing citizens of the Former
Soviet Union, targeting Lukashenko, using the Borodin arrest as a way of
putting leaders of Russia to the test: will they crawl and obediently get rid
of Lukashenko, or not?
I think what I am saying is a projection of your own basic views. But this
avalanche of propaganda on corruption gets even very smart guys like you to
forget the key question: since when do the mass murderers who own the U.S.
and Switzerland and England have the right to arrest and lecture the Russian
government? Jail THEM - Jail Solana, Clinton, Blair. Jail is to good for
Blair. Free Borodin.
This is quite apart from the question of whether the present Russian
government is my personal wish-government for Russia. (It isn't, but then,
history didn't ask me.)
Jared
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