From: "Luke Weiger"
> CB: Actually, when the Mujuahaedeen were fighting the Soviets, the "NLF"
was
> the Afghan government.
You must take a rather dim view of the NLF, then--I haven't seen anyone attempt to argue that the Afghan communist regime was anything more than a Soviet puppet government with next to zero popular support.
-- Luke
^^^^^^
CB: Well, the NLF in Viet Nam was not "the" NLF. National Liberation Front was a general Marxist-Leninist concept applied to a many the national liberation movements against imperialism in the period of a large number of colonial revolutionary struggles after WWII, right up through those in Afghanistan, Mozambique, El Salvador etc. NLF's were a Communist Party idea for leading and organizing socialist oriented anti-colonial ,nationalist , you know.
Perhaps you are still behind the iron curtain of anti-Soviet propaganda , and that is why you have never seen anyone argue successfully ( let alone attempt to argue) that the Afghan national liberation movement was an expression of self-determination and socialist aspiration. Google might even have something. I'll check. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030915/6f70ea32/attachment.htm>