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From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:09:48 +0000
Subject: Re: M-I: Che Guevara in Africa (lnp post #1)


A KARL CARLILE MESSAGE:

LOUIS PROYECT: Most importantly, imperialism lacks a cats-paw to intervene
in the Zairean civil war. South African troops can not be dispatched
to put down the anti-Mobutu challenge. If Kabila's forces are
victorious, there will be a nationalist and left-leaning government
in place in potentially one of the most economically important
countries of Africa. A revolutionary Zaire, combined with like-minded
states in South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda
puts pressure on Nigeria, ruled by a dictatorship that rival's
Mobutu's for its greed and corruption. A democratic and
anti-imperialist Nigeria, one of the world's major oil-producers,
would certainly advance the class struggle internationally.

KARL: Louis Proyect cannot be serious. The Zairean rebels are being 
supported by US imperialism. This is why there has been been serious 
intervention in support of Mobutu or the so called Hutus.

What we have in Zaire and have had in Rwanda is an inter-imperialist
conflict mediated by local forces. This inter-imperialist conflict
has had France represented through the so called Hutu element
together with Mobutu and the US represeneted through the Tutsi
element. This helps explains why in the Anglophone world the Hutus
have been demonized.

LOUIS: Che Guevara's vision was correct.

KARL: As far as Guevara goes, in many ways, he was a bit of an
idiot. One does not have to have high falutin theories to offer
explanations as to why his silly schemes were surrealistic. Guevara
had obviously lost touch with reality.




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