From: dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz
To: marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 13:11:37 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: Proyect,The New York Times and Zaire!


>
Rolf of the last Maoists writes:.
. 
> It remains a fact: The Trotskyists (practically all of them) one 
> more time revealed themselves as a US imperialist muppet force,
> here in connection with Congo. They among other things are
> "the last Mobutuists": Dave Mobutu Bedggood, Bob Cucharacho
> Mobutu etc etc. And also of course Hans Psycho III Mobutu
> Ehrbar - he wrote on 14.05 that I (who i.a. had written rather 
> many postings since November precisely supporting the AFDL)
> am "marching in the wrong every single time" I'm trying to
> do something against capitalism".
> 
 How is it to be  a US muppet to condemn Mobutu as a US stooge 
put in power 32 years ago;  to warn against Kabila's US backing via 
Uganda, Rwanda, and SA;  and at the same time call for independent workers 
and peasants councils and militias who can make up their own mind how 
far they are prepared to back Kabila, not on the basis of some 
historic inevitability which makes Kabila the "progressive" force to 
be worshipped, but their own class power?  It seems that dogmatic 
hysterical  Maoist anti-troskyism does not allow Rolf to see these 
differences, or the class basis of them.  Well what's new?

Dave Bedggood


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