At 13:38 22/09/99 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: >Jim Devine: >>But I'd like to know why you think that the Solidarity group violated >>Marxist principles in their position on E. Timor. I believe that they back >>the principle of the right of self-determination of nations, including the >>independence of E. Timor. They just have a different interpretation of the >>efficacy of the UN in helping E. Timor achieve achieve this goal than I do >>(or you do). That is, it's a disagreement concerning fact rather than >>principle. > >The United Nations, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, is a >instrument to promote imperialist hegemony. And it has no other contradictory aspect contained within itself? despite the following remark? - > the General Assembly has passed >many worthy motions in recent years, including the controversial "Zionism = >Racism" one. Chris Burford London
