-Caveat Lector-
OK, your position is much clearer now and is one with which I can
sympathize. I, too, do not wish to see the Timorese substitute one set of
crony capitalists for another. However, we have to be careful that such
concerns don't leave us sitting on our hands when people are being murdered
and forcefully repatriated en masse. I hate to say it, but in a case like
this I'd rather see a multinational force on the ground to stop the killing
first. Next, we can continue to wage our campaigns against the IMF (and I
know that's a highly idealistic notion).
Timor once again reminds us that capital is infinitely flexible, finding in
any situation a means to fulfill its own ambitions, manipulating even
resistance to its machinations into a manageable, profitable enterprise. We
are at a most frustrating and depressing point in history when freedom is
measured only in terms of one's ability to become a consumer, when national
liberation becomes a means of multinational enslavement, when our finest
hopes and dreams are undermined by powers beyond our reach. What is to be
done, indeed.
Cheers,
Lucio
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] The Balkanization of the World]
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Lucio Benedetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >"Ethnically-plural states?" Since when has East Timor been part of a
> >so-called Indonesian plurality (any more than the Albanians were part of
a
> >so-called Yugoslavian plurality, or Tibet part of a Chinese plurality,
and
> >we could go on)?
> <snip>
>
> Hold on! I didn't mean to imply that East Timor was ever part of an
Indonesian
> *majority*. But Indonesia is, for better or for worse, composed of a large
> number of ethnic groups. Thanks to the IMF, each of those ethnic groups is
> caught in a double-bind: they can opt for political independence, and put
> themselves in the hands of international capital; or they can resist the
> world's new colonial masters and remain subordinate to Djakarta. Neither
> option is an appealing one. What I am suggesting is that the legitimate
> national aspirations of the East Timorese--which were repressed by the
> Indonesians, with the connivance of the U.S., in 1975--have been used as a
> pretext by the IMF to break up a large, ethnically-complex country (please
> note, I don't call it a nation as such) which happens to sit on top of
massive
> natural resources, among them petrochemicals.
>
> I don't have a ready solution to the problem posed by East Timor. The rape
of
> East Timor *is* as bad as what the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodia--you're
> absolutely right about that; I'd also compare it to the Rape of Nanjing by
the
> Japanese Army in 1937. Condoning that obscenity is out of the question.
But
> the alternative seems to be to create another microstate, whose existence
will
> depend on the largesse of international corporations and which will exist
as
> the client of some larger, wealthier state. There *has* to be a better way
to
> accept and encourage the national dreams of the Timorese than what we see
> before us now.
>
> I am horrified by what I see happening. What worries me even more is that
the
> terror being inflicted on East Timor appears to have been carefully set
up--by
> whom, for what purposes, I can't say; but I believe that the hidden hand
> belongs to the IMF and its masters. In short, 2 + 2 = 4. Q.E.D. (I
think)...
>
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