Obviously there's a misunderstanding. I was not criticozing Nestor bacause he
hailed Galtieri's 'antiimperialism'. In fact in the struggle between the
bourgeois antiimperialism of an oppressed nation against imperialism me and "my
friends belonging to the Trotzkyist ranks" support the oppressed, i.e. in a way
that is for lack of a better word traditionally calles 'militarily'. We do
this even in the case of such a brutal dictatorship as the Iraqi one. What I was
criticising is that Victor didn't even mention his (maybe secondary) role in the
repression of the working class the importance of which he however stresses in
his answer below. This is giving political support to a bougeois enemy of the
working class, and this is something I can not accept. The fact that Galtieri
may be treated unfair by the imperialists who ignore the crimes of others much
more guilty than he was does not make his crimes against the workers much
smaller, doesn't it?
Best A.Holberg
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Nestor Gorojovsky schrieb:
> A Wosni sent what follows:
>
> "[L-I] gorojovsky on argentina and galtieri
> (fwd)
>
> A.Wosni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:02:38 +0100
>
>
>
> > This is disgusting. Galtieri's regime slaughtered tens of thousands > to
> crush a workers' movement.
> > AH
>
> To begin with: the idea was not to crush a "workers' movement", but
> to blast a headache-giving nation for good.
>
> Since working class was the last ultimate support of Argentinean
> independence and sovereignty, the regime put all of its pressure on
> the working class.
>
> As to the regime, it was not "Galtieri's", though he took part of the
> tasks of political repression but on a secondary level (which of
> course does not save him from historic and political judgement).
>
> But along these years many generals have been passing away silently
> in Argentina, many of them much more depravate than Galtieri, many of
> them open torturers (which Galtieri, whatever his faults, was NOT),
> many of them even worse than the civilians who led the regime (namely
> the neoliberal gang around Martínez de Hoz). Nobody comments those
> deaths, nobody at all.
>
> Galtieri, however, deserved a bucketful of shit from imperialists and
> their hirelings -either "rightists" or "leftists"- because he did the
> right thing when it came to restore the Argentinean rights on our
> occupied territories. Against the imperialists, who are WORSE YET
> than Galtieri, one cannot but remember that he was ousted because he
> wanted to keep on fighting (and on this, he was exactly on the line
> of our population as a whole).
>
> A.Wosni and his friends seem to belong to Trotskyist ranks. They
> would do well to read Trotsky's comments on the event of a war
> between "Fascist Brazil" and "Democratic England". Then they would
> learn that the duty of a serious Marxist is to oppose imperialism and
> defend those who oppose imperialism, no matter what are one's views
> as to the politics of the latter.
>
> Is it too hard a nut to crack for German Trotskyism?
>
> Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Pedro Albizu Campos, compatriota puertorriqueño de todos
> los latinoamericanos.
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