Chechnya - a far off country

[Chris Burford]

At 11:09 09/11/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>It includes for example the international united front against fascism from
>>1941-1945 in which the socialist camp did not lose its indepenendence and
>>made many gains.
>
>Judging from the above, we have so little common ground there's not much
>point in pursuing this debate.  What "united front" are you talking about?
>What was the "socialist" camp and what were the gains?  

Sometimes polemics cannot reach agreement but they can usefully clarify
differences.

Clearly, Russell, you are unable to answer the passages from Lenin.

I too really wonder which planet you are on. Not only have your failed to
say what could be done about Chechnya, despite the example of East Timor,
but on your own continent you have failed to comment on whether the UN
peace keeping force in Sierra Leone is progressive, or what alternative
strategy could have ended apartheid in South Africa.

It would seem that for you, Russell, some distorted concept of
revolutionary purity is more important than practice.

Chris Burford

London