Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:58:39 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: "MRTA" wanted Jap ransom - "Usual" suspect more so


Bob wrote, on 08.01:

>Rolf writes;
>>And who is it that has some strong motives for hitting
>>precisely at Japan? I've written about that before, and so
>>have others.
>
>Rolf, your defense of Japanese imperialism against American Imperialism and 
>implying that MRTA is a tool of American imperialism is appalling!

Read my tips: *No* defence *anywhere* of Japanese imperialism.

What I argued as strong motives for suspect No. 1 was: 1) Rivalry
between US superpower imperialism and (militarily very weak but
economocally strong, "2nd world") Japanese imperialism - in *this*
conflict, **I'm* not taking sides, and

 2) Conflict between main US bourgeois forces and main Japanese ones 
over the extremely reactionary global anti-industry, anti-technology, 
anti-growth campaigns of the former - that is, the "green" warfare 
efforts directed above all against the masses of people. In this 
conflict, the Japanese bourgeoisie is taking up a standpoint that is 
more favourable to the proletariat.

A *tool* of US imperialism Trotskyism in general *already* is, in its 
extremely-rightist support of the "green" warfare. The Trots (or most
Trots - Vladimir, I think, disagrees with them here) in this
respect consitute STORMTROOPER forces in the world.

As for "MRTA" being a US imperialist tool in this particular action,
many things, already mention by me and others, point to this.

And your following lines is just one more time an old litany which
I've already refuted many times.

(Bob:)
>This few lines say more about what goes on in the heads of Maoists who are 
>totally emersed in the stage theory of revolution. That is why you find 
>yourselfs in company with one "progressive" imperialist country against 
another.
>
>I really do not understand at all why you even try and call yourself a 
>follower of Marx and Lenin. But i do understand the Mao bit. 
>
Rolf M.




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