Okay, I can more or less accept this clarification, though I still feel that it
stresses the national question a bit too much to the disadvantage of the class
question.
Best, A.Holberg
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Nestor Gorojovsky schrieb:
> A. Wosni wrote:
>
> "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."
>
> A.Wosni is not stating the case as it actually was. It is not a
> matter of the "bourgeois antiimperialism of an oppressed nation"
> against "imperialism". It is an imperialist power, occupying land of
> a semi-colonial country, struggling against that semi-colonial
> country as a whole. This is all that matters from the point of view
> of the global scenario. Of course, we can also add that reactionary
> (not necessarily "bourgeois", Galtieri was not exactly a "bourgeois"
> military leader) leadership will bring about defeat rather than
> victory for the semicolonial country. But would it be too much to ask
> our cdes. in the metropolis to help us by stressing the reactionary
> role of their own bourgeoisies while leaving it to us to struggle
> against our own reactionaries _in the midst of the objectivelly
> progressive national war_?
>
> A.Wosni goes on:
>
> "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?"
>
> The same people who were tear gassed in May Square on March 30th (me
> among them) were supporting Galtieri in May Square on April 2nd (me
> among them).
>
> Politics is always a concrete thing. General Ovando Candia, who
> nationalized the Bolivian oil company, had been the main leader of
> the campaign that ended up with the murder of Ernesto Guevara.
> History in Latin America is very complex. What one must not lose is
> the red thread, the national question.
>
> It is not a matter of "unfair treatment" of Galtieri by the
> imperialists. It is a matter of sending the Argentineans the
> following message: "Never rise your head against us again. If we did
> what we did with such a rogue as Galtieri, can you imagine what we
> have in our vaults for you?".
>
> This is why we don't need to recall Galtieri's crimes, which we know
> very well. But we need to recall imperialist perversion, which is
> seldom revealed.
>
>
> Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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