[A-List] James Petras on Beslan - fire away

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>> Nevertheless . . . Beslan  . . . the hostage taking and murder of children 
is avoided by the "left ideological frontmen" of the imperial bourgeoisie and 
presented as a colonial question and anti-colonial actions and this is not 
the case. <<

Melvin P

<<<But it is the case. The Czars colonized the Caucuses in exactly the same 
manner as England colonized Ireland. In 1917, the Bolsheviks guaranteed the 
right of self-determination.>>>

Lou P

Comment

Here is the crux of the political difference. 

Because the Czar colonized the Caucuses . . .  the event that is Beslan is 
not reactionary and fascist like political terrorism driven by War Lords seeking 
political and economic relations with world capital . . . but the same as the 
Irish struggle against the English or . . . say the historic struggle of the 
African American people for Liberation and social revolution. 

Sorry if I see Ireland and North Ossetia differently. 

Actually . . . the right of self determination for nations as a slogan was 
implemented in various ways in the Soviet Union. Hence the political category 
called autonomous regions. This of course has never been understood by the 
anti-Soviet left in America. 

Ireland would of course not be seen from the lens of the communists political 
form called an autonomous region. 

Screaming self determination as a political slogan for communists today is 
utterly bourgeois and the calling card of the imperial bourgeoisie. In other 
words the political terrorists . . . who took the hostages and did the killings 
are really freedom fighters . . . fighting to break North Ossetia colonial 
relationship to the Russian State? 

Tragic thinking. 


Melvin P.