Dearcdes., I understand that cde. Holberg is "one of us", so to say. So that although I feel thankful for the explanation that he gives as to his standing re.: Malvinas, I want to reassure him that I did not need such a declaration at all. In the same sense, I am in no way questioning the esteem that cde. Holberg or other cdes. on this list may express towards my humble individual personality, at most I should only be thankful -again- for any good feeling and disdainful for evil ones!
Due to time constraints I am not currently in a position to fully develop the issues raised by A. Holberg, namely the role of "bourgeois" leadership in the National Revolution of a semicolonial country. Suffice it to say, for the time being, that while in Old Europe nations coallesced through a long process involving simultaneous dissolution of feudal forms and creation of bourgeois forms, in countries such as ours the "national question" has little to do with that process. Ours are, so to say, "programmatic nationalisms", which stress the need to overthrow imperialist oppresion and _thus_ capitalism and social oppression, since imperialist oppresion is the basic and only form of stable capitalism in this part of the globe. In this sense, no national revolution in a semicolony can be succesfully led by the bourgeoisie. This is, er, an axiom. But in the meanwhile, history proceeds. Things happen. Unexpected events take place. For example, for many different reasons a military tyrant who has been, up to the day before yesterday, pointing at your head with a machine gun, suddenly aims that machine gun to the head of an imperialist usurper of your own country. Imperialists know very well what to do with such a type. Can't we revolutionaries learn from our enemies? Nothing of the above implies any kind of leniency against Galtieri's participation in the murderous repression of 1976-1982 in Argentina. What's more, by showing that Armed Forces drilled to murder their own fellow countrypeople could hardly win a war in the defence of the homeland you are planting into the brain of the military the basic issues of national and social revolution. That is, you are struggling against Galtieri in what he has of a reactionary member of the 1976 coup. That's why though I don't defend Galtieri himself and his crimes during the repression in Argentina, I will stand fiercely against all the blood dripping word processors of the imperialist journalists who love to attack Galtieri while they say nothing at all about the Latin American oligarchies and the Euro-Angloamerican imperialisms which support those military dictatorships and benefit from them. Galtieri is not attacked for all his evil deeds. He is attacked for his -perhaps single- good deed. That's enough for a revolutionary to know what to do. As to the debate on the role of bourgeois leaderships in the national revolution, it will have to wait for a better time (if it ever comes about). Hugs to all, Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Aquel que no está orgulloso de su origen no valdrá nunca nada porque empieza por depreciarse a sí mismo". Pedro Albizu Campos, compatriota puertorriqueño de todos los latinoamericanos. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
