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. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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