Charlie writes!
>
>Also, your absolute anti-nationalist line is not Marxist. As explained to you often,
>the Leninist approach to the national question is mixed in the oppressed nations,
>including oppressed nationalities such as African Americans. Leninists see the
>bourgeois elements of oppressed nations as playing a role in liberation from
>imperialism and colonialism, as in National Liberation Fronts. The fronts consist of
>cross class elements. Far from "being led down some wrong road ",most of the
>socialist revolutions to date have depended on such fronts. It is the working classes
>in the "advanced" countries who have failed to comprehend the Marxist approach,
>failing to carryout revolutions, leaving others to socialism in "one country" or
>poorer countries. Your position on this illustrates the common error of the twin
>types of petit bourgeois revolutionism -ultra-leftism and rightwing socialists. See
>_Leftwing Communism: An Infantile Disorder_ by Lenin. For example, the Socialist
>Party in the!
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>US. in 1920 reduced the national question to the class question , similarly to what
>you do here.
>
>Not only that, your denigration of national liberation in oppressed countries unites
>with the posture of imperialism itself.
>
>But you are opposed to the U.S. aggression , so ok for now.
>
>Charles Brown
>
Well in the former Yugoslavia we have hardly the conditions of the national question
including the possibility of the bourgeoisie playing a role in liberation. In fact we
have a situation in the former Yugoslavia of inter-penetrating peoples occupying the
same piece of land.
A better example is the horn of Africa today Charlie. Below is a report from the right
wing press and extremely interesting in regards to Charlie and the above. Now I want
Charlie to read it closely and apply his fundamentally Stalinist approach to the
national question to it.
Here we have a great chance to prove and seperate the corn from the wheat. The
bullshit artists claiming to be Leninist and the rest of the pack. Now give us and
answer on the below Charlie connected to your position above..
Warm Regards
Bob Malecki
>
>
>STRATFOR's
>Global Intelligence Update
>April 21, 1999
>
>Conflict Spreads in Horn of Africa
>
>Summary:
>
>Somali warlords have accused Ethiopian troops of launching raids
>deep in Somali territory. While the allegations have been denied
>by the Ethiopian government, still it appears that the conflict
>between Ethiopia and Eritrea is spreading by proxy, threatening
>to involve not only Somalia but also Sudan and even Egypt.
>
>Analysis:
>
>The Somali newspaper Mogadishu Times reported April 19 that
>Ethiopian troops have reached Bardaale in the Bay region of
>Somalia, northwest of Mogadishu. The newspaper charged that the
>Ethiopian forces had already seized many areas in the neighboring
>Gedo region, which borders Ethiopia and Kenya. Ethiopia denied
>allegations earlier this month that it had sent heavily armed
>forces to intervene in factional fighting in Gedo region, and
>will no doubt deny this deeper incursion into Somalia. However,
>evidence suggests that the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea
>continues to spill over into neighboring states, intensifying
>local conflicts and threatening to destabilize the region.
>
>Somali warlords Hussein Mohamed Aideed, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, and
>Omar Haji Mohamed "Masale" sent a letter to UN Secretary General
>Kofi Annan on April 11, charging that heavily armed Ethiopian
>forces had launched a series of attacks in Gedo region beginning
>April 8, and demanding that the UN Security Council take action
>against Addis Ababa. Copies of the letter were sent to the Arab
>League, the OAU, and the Intergovernmental Authority on
>Development (IGAD). The warlords alleged that Ethiopian forces
>had occupied the towns of Bulo Hawo and Dollo in Gedo region and
>had arrested local leaders.
>
>Ethiopian government spokeswoman Selome Tadesse called the Somali
>allegations "unfounded" and an attempt by "devious forces" to
>portray Ethiopia as an invader. She said that Ethiopia had
>captured a group of Somalis on the 10th or 11th near Dollo as
>they attempted to smuggle large amounts of explosives from
>multiple countries of origin into Ethiopia. However the BBC,
>Agence France Presse, and the Indian Ocean Newsletter all
>reported that Ethiopian troops had intervened in the area on
>behalf of one faction in a power struggle within the Somali
>National Front -- the faction opposed to Omar Haji Mohamed and
>the Mogadishu warlords. Kenya has reportedly closed its border
>with Somalia in the region, and the Arab League has stated its
>concern with the Ethiopian Army's presence within Somalia, and
>announced that it would ask Addis Ababa to withdraw the troops.
>
>Bulo Hawo is reportedly a stronghold of the fundamentalist rebel
>group Al-Ittihad Al-Islam, and Ethiopia has carried out attacks
>on the group several times in the past. Ethiopia's rebel Oromo
>Liberation Front (OLF), which has allegedly received Libyan-
>funded arms shipments from Eritrea, is also reportedly active in
>Gedo region. As we reported April 7, both Ethiopia and Eritrea
>are arming competing factions in Somalia in a growing proxy war
>[http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/040799.asp]. In addition
>to the list of countercharges outlined in our last report,
>Ethiopia has alleged that Arab doctors are tending to wounded
>Eritrean officers at a clinic in southern Somalia controlled by
>Hussein Mohamed Aideed. Ethiopia also suggested that the recent
>kidnapping of three people in eastern Ethiopia was carried out by
>the Ogaden National Liberation Front, also allegedly supported by
>Eritrea via Aideed in Somalia. Aideed, in turn, claimed his
>militia killed three Somali agents of the Ethiopian government
>sent to Mogadishu to abduct Oromo rebel leaders. An official at
>Ethiopia's embassy in Nairobi denied Aideed's allegation, calling
>it "a continuation of the fabrications made by certain forces in
>Somalia who are explicitly supported by Eritrea."
>
>While the spillover of the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict into
>Somalia is apparently increasing, it is not the only potentially
>dangerous extension of that conflict. Sudan's foreign ministry
>on April 19 requested a postponement of peace talks with the
>opposition Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), scheduled to be
>held April 20-25 in Nairobi, under the auspices of the IGAD.
>Sudan has charged the SPLA with repeatedly violating a cease fire
>agreement. While it was Khartoum that called off the talks, the
>Ethiopian-Eritrean war is having a serious impact on the peace
>process. Ethiopia and Eritrea are both members of the IGAD, and
>both have actively supported and hosted the Sudanese opposition
>forces. The Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict has thrown regional
>alliances into a flux, disrupting the Sudanese opposition, while
>the conflict has also undermined Ethiopia and Eritrea's
>contribution to IGAD's attempt at negotiation.
>
>Another emerging aspect of the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict is its
>potential linkage with the question of allocation of the water of
>the Nile. Ethiopia is the source of three quarters of the Nile's
>waters, while Egypt and Sudan are the river's primary consumers.
>Both countries have historically been able to limit Ethiopia's
>control of Nile water, even leaving it out of agreements on
>division of the resource, and both have an interest in keeping
>Ethiopia weak. Ethiopian media has been increasingly raising
>this issue, suggesting that this might be the next area in which
>Ethiopia will be forced to defend its sovereignty. Egypt and
>Sudan also have interests in dominating the Red Sea, which might
>be possible with an Eritrean client state.
>
>Ethiopia has alleged that Egypt is already supporting Eritrea
>with arms and expertise. Ethiopian newspapers have reported that
>light and medium arms and explosives captured from Eritrean
>forces were manufactured in Egypt and were payed for with Libyan
>or U.S. money or were donated by wealthy Egyptians. Egypt has
>claimed that has not armed Eritrea, and that the military
>equipment made its way to Eritrea through third parties. Other
>Eritrean reports claim that Egypt is providing Eritrea with
>military advise and intelligence through military experts
>masquerading as diplomats at Egypt's embassy in Asmara and
>Egyptian spies in Addis Ababa.
>
>As the world's attention is riveted on the conflict in
>Yugoslavia, the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is quietly spreading
>to involve a host of regional states and link a variety of
>preexisting and otherwise unconnected disputes. With the battle
>in the Democratic Republic of the Congo linking conflicts from
>Sudan to Angola, the spreading crisis in the Horn of Africa could
>contribute to a insoluble tangle of continent-wide conflict.
>
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