--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> >Why did so many of the movements of national
> liberation end so badly?
> -----------------------------
> My short answer is these movements were all swamped
> by the weight of the
> still-expanding US-led global capitalist economy.
In Kashmir and Chechnya?
Chechnya is a poster-boy for a national liberation movement turned bad. "Independence" brought immiseration, the slave trade, warlordism, and theocracy. Chechnya during independence was an Islamist version of Road Warrior.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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