Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results

[Chris Burford]

At 22:16 31/07/99 +0100, you wrote:
>In message <3.0.2.32.19990731200522.013e74b0 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris
>Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes
>
>>One of my differences with the left opportunist line is over the role of
>>the state. For some it is enough to be a marxist to oppose everything that
>>your imperialist government may do. That is not the marxist theory of the
>>state. A ruling class cannot hold state power without at times having to
>>promote an agenda that appears to stand above classes, is ethical, and
>>legal. Thus the law becomes a semi-autonomous terrain of struggle. Why will
>>the US not sign up to the Rome Court on Crimes against Humanity??!!
>
>Well, Chris can sign up as apparatchik to Louise Arbour's Kangaroo court
>if he wants to, but he shouldn't be invoking Marx's name for this shabby
>reactionary tactic. 

I am talking about the Rome Court, not the Hague Court. The political
struggle is quite different.

This illustrates the abstract and left-idealist nature of Jim's cynical
approach to politics.

Chris Burford

London