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On 7/8/2012 8:41 PM, Manuel Barrera wrote:
Favoring imperialist intervention for whatever reason--today--is . . . an error.
This specifically has the potential to be a counter-revolutionary position.
Any such static, one size fits all, generalized position that doesn't
take in to account concrete conditions has that potential. It is
mechanistic not dialectical and it is not Marxism.
I know "--today--" is to ward off comparisons to earlier imperialist
interventions like say France support for the US revolution or the more
recent US imperialist support for the Soviet Union and the Viet Minh
during WW2, but it doesn't really fix the problem.
I think the Libyans have well demonstrated the counter-revolutionary
nature of that position because if the thuwar had refused NATO air
support on your advise, it is very unlikely that they would have had the
first free elections in their history yesterday, instead they probably
would still be slugging it out in a much longer and - for the people - a
much bloodier civil war like the people of Syria are facing now.
Of course such proclamations as "whatever reason" are easy as long as
one is not facing the practical tasks of making a revolution.
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