The answer of Lou Paulsen expresses exactly, IMHO, the point of view of revolutionaries in face of the bourgeois nationalism in the halvcolonial world: "we defend the right of the Arab masses to be exploited by their own bourgeoisie, RATHER THAN by the U.S. imperialists".
Julio Fernández Baraibar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: [L-I] Osama's communalism as a reflection of American ideology > > I think that there's no doubt that 'Bin Laden' here makes lots of good > points > > (like many others did before him). At the same time he engages in > > arch-reactionary reasoning on two fronts. The lesser is the fact that he > > counters the obscurantist Zionist/Christian rightist idea that Palestine was > > given to the Jews by God and that this justifies the existence of Israel by > the > > equally crap idea that the land was given by Allah to the Muslims. A > Leninist > > list should not give any credit in any way to such nonsense. And of course > this > > guy does not differ between 'the Jews' and the Zionists. He's a bloody > > communalist (I won't call him a racist because as he says correctly the > Arabs > > are semites themselves). But what is even worse is the fact that by pointing > out > > to the crimes committed by imperialism and its surrogates (zionism e.g.)he > > defends the reactionary and antihuman idea that therefore innocent people > can > _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
