Re: [L-I] Re: a clip of bourgeois news on Colombia

2000-08-18 Thread A.Wosni
You correctly say that the FARC's ELN's strategy is that of a popular front. Don't you think that historical experience has shown that the tactical errors or lessens drawn aside this is formula for certain (political and social) defeat of the working class (and together with it the poor

Re: [L-I] More on the debate on NATO's war against the Balkans

2000-08-18 Thread A.Wosni
Just two points: 1. the question is whether or not a nationalist regime like Milosevic's one which (if we leave the question of former Yugoslavia having been state-capitalist anyhow apart) has put his country on the road back to (private) capitalism can in the long run successfully fight

Re: [L-I] Re: a clip of bourgeois news on Colombia

2000-08-18 Thread A.Wosni
Comrade, while I agree with you on most of what you say, I think on some basic points your analysis is flawed: 1.You are talking about (deformed or not) workers' states where the workers were/and are not the class which made the revolution and hold power. While this is 'orthodox Trotzkyism'

[L-I] Société civile

2000-08-18 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a Re: [L-I] Re: a clip of bourgeois news on Colombi, el 17 Aug 00, a las 21:38, Louis Proyect dijo: 'civil society'. (God, I hate that term.) Yes, in English it sounds ridiculous (civil behaviour, civility, and so on), implying that there is a society that keeps good manners, etc.

Re: [L-I] More on the debate on NATO's war against the Balkans

2000-08-18 Thread Johannes Schneider
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: It would even be interesting to consider if the Kossovo issue does not have to do with a plan to keep Albanians busy with something else than their own destruction at the hands of imperialists... We are entering the slippery fields of speculation here,

[L-I] The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism

2000-08-18 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
See the entire work at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/his/said.html The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925 By Robert Olson, University of Texas Press, Austin Conclusion The Sheikh Said rebellion was the first large-scale nationalist