Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:01:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Fwd: More on 'leftist' redbaiting of the anti-war movement



So the Balkans like the Arab world is a victim of its
own backward ideas, rather than its place in the
global economy? If only the blighters could abandon
that perverse nationalism and distaste for democracy!
With this argument we are on the way to support for
imperialist intervention against semi-colonial
barbarism as a lesser evil, though Harald to his
credit opposed such interventions in the Balkans. Once
again, it is necessary to connect nasty regimes in the
semi-colonies with imperialism by understanding the
material base that imperialism creates for that
nastiness. Underdevelopment caused by
superexploitation, the lack of any material base for
the winning democratic rights, etc etc 
If imperialism only exists on a political, overt level
- as conquest or intervention - then all we have is a
(bourgeois) empirical  defintion of imperialism, and
the Norways of the world get off scot free, or even
look progressive by comparison with the semi-colonies.
It's the same old argument, and it can only be
resolved with the sort of nitty gritty political
economy which the WSWS correctly points out is missing
from the left redbaiters' article. 






 

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