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Brian Becker wrote (and Eli posted) >Shame on those U.S. liberal groups and 'progressives' who consider >the prospect of U.S. and NATO intervention to be a secondary factor >in this unfolding struggle. I think I get this argument but I ask comrades here to help me to make it sure I've got it right. The proper position, the only principled position, on the situation in Libya is to focus exclusively on the threat of US intervention. Attacking the oppressive, corrupt, and imperialist enabling nature of the Libyan regime has the practical effect of actually supporting imperialism by not properly exposing the global class nature of the conflict. This is more than just a tactic in this particular case, but part of an over all strategy for fighting for revolution in the US as described in an article by PSL supporting the Iranian regime: >The anti-imperialist path of struggle, the only path that >leads to socialism, never finds excuses to side with our >“own” bourgeoisie against its enemies. Rather, it stands >with the targets of the empire. From,‘Growing U.S. War Threats Against Iran Challenge For Anti-War Movement’ March 1, 2006. The target of the empire right now is the Libyan regime which should therefore must supported as a means of mobilizing the American people against our own bourgeoisie. As regards the people of Libya, they may indeed be suffering under the regime but they do not have the right to revolution (as in Iran). Such a revolutionary movement, confronting a regime to which the US has been hostile, inexorably becomes a tool of imperialism. Is this correct? Is it close? Am I right in assuming that the theoretical basis of this analysis derives from an article in an SWP Internal Bulletin (Vol.XV, No. 15, May 1953, ) entitled 'The Global Class War and the Destiny of American Labor'? Where I can get as copy of this important document which I am assuming is at the heart of decades of impressive organizing work by the Workers World Party, International Action Center, ANSWER, Party of Liberation and Socialism, etc.? If anybody does has a copy of that document (or knows where I can find one in print or online), I would greatly appreciate the information. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
