[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Affirmative action programs do not and cannot solve the fundamental
> problem of a historically forced and institutionalized social position
> of the African American people as a people. When one even mentions the
> shattering and break up of the US multinational state many so-called
> progressives, revolutionaries and even Marxists become eerily quiet. The
> self determination program up to and including the formation of an
> independent state is evidently reserved for "genuine movements of the
> oppressed" outside the boundary of our own bourgeoisie.
>
the point i raise is that the status of "genuine movement of the
oppressed" may be denied to the kashmiris in exactly the same way, in
india, as you suggest it is denied to african americans in the US!
--ravi
