[lbo-talk] Ace nails it

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed May 27 21:31:27 PDT 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Sheldon <humanist.observer at gmail.com>wrote:

Are you actually saying that Spain's efforts to
> put on trial Pinochet is an example of "imperial justice"

Yes.


> and should
> be condemned as such?

While I will not go as far as Carrol on the question of morality, I am not generally in the business of "condemning" things, at least in political terms. I simply do my best to call them what they are.

Never mind that Spain had losts its power over its American colonies
> 175 or so years ago.

You mean their colonial relationship formally ended? That's a far cry from the loss of all power (economic, military, diplomatic, etc.).


> That they were putting on trial an agent of U.S.
> imperialism, a head of state who gained that status by overthrowing an
> elected socialist president and murdered thousands of socialists,
> leftists, workers, and peasants so as to implement neoliberal economic
> policies?

So how is resolving the internal contradictions of a sovereign state an ocean away the proper business of the Spanish crown?

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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