[lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus

[Mike Ballard]

Julie Burchill, meanwhile, a self-confessed Stalinist
who still boasts 
that 
she supported the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in
1979, wrote last 
week 
that it was nationalist to oppose attacking Iraq.
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One shouldn't confuse reason with ideology.  To see
the Soviet supported government of Afghanistan as
being a better situation for the common person
(especially women) than any of the governments which
followed or preceeded it, is a rational, empirical
observation, just as opposing the plunge of
Anglo-Saxon Imperial power into the loins of the
Middle East is a rational judgement based on working
class interest.

Neither nationalist nor Stalinist,

Mike B)


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Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. 
Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
-- Bertolt Brecht   
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