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> As I see it -- and as I've said before -- the problem here is the inability, > or willful unwillingness, of Louis et al to distinguish the principle > contradiction (U.S./NATO military aggression against a Third World country > with some elements of political and economic independence from the Empire) > from the secondary contradiction (Ghaddafii's dictatorship over the Libyan > people). 1. Who determines what the main contradiction is? A Libyan rebel might see his principal enemy as the Gaddafi regime. 2. Is it possible to take a strict class line toward both contradictions? That is, support revolution against Gaddafi, be critical of the compromised bourgeois leadership in Benghazi, and oppose imperialist intervention? Glenn ________________________________________________ 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
