Doug, I'm not sure that exempting alleged nation-states from an anti-imperialist line would even put us in opposition to most of the world's imperial nastiness. The Nazis also perpetuated quite a bit of it in territories they considered German, not always without some historical justification.
Bhaskar, I really have no idea what your message is supposed to mean. Absolutely none. Would you perhaps care to explain what you're talking about? Brevity is a virtue, but I promise not to hold it against you if you go over 25 words this time.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote:
And, as I keep saying, in addition to what Doug mentions there is a
> difference between 1865 and society reliant on slave-labor and 1945.
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, as I keep saying, there's a difference between reintegrating a
> > portion of one's country that lost a civil war and occupying a foreign
> > country.
>
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