[Marxism] A hot question by =?UNKNOWN?Q?L=FCko?=

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

I want to make a public mention of Alan Bradley's political honesty.  
If I don't remember wrongly, he does not share my idea that maybe 
Eastern Timorese nationalism might be viewed with a careful eye by 
Marxists.  However, his recent contribution to the list simply 
supports the idea.

> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alan Bradley <alanb1000 en yahoo.com>
> Subject: re: [Marxism] A hot question by =?UNKNOWN?Q?L=FCko?=
> To: marxism en lists.econ.utah.edu
 
> From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" 
> > But it would be very interesting to know what were
> > the feelings of the Eastern Timorese and their
> > leadership (if any, and if none -then, why 
> > no leadership of their own under Portuguese colonial
> > rule????).
> >
> > Anyone knows the answer, the _full_ answer I mean?
> 
> I certainly don't know the full answer, but...
> 
> The Timorese rebelled against the Portuguese in 1942
> and 1959. Both revolts were rather quickly and
> brutally suppressed. In the first case, at least, the
> main force involved in the suppression were
> pro-Portuguese (and Christian, of course) Timorese
> clans.
> 
> I don't know much about the second revolt, but it
> seems to have been partly inspired by a small group of
> Indonesian activists. Funnily enough, it is possible
> that these Indonesians were actually associated with
> separatist movements in eastern Indonesia, that is,
> were *anti-Indonesian*. At that point, of course, 
> "anti-Indonesian" had significant overtones of "anti-communist".

Though the first case might be simply explained as the political 
action of a gang of colonial Portuguese against natives, I tend to 
put little trust in this kind of explanations, because of the not so 
easy relation between "white" and "non-white" in countries of Iberian 
colonization.

But the second one is quite interesting, indeed.  It would be 
essential to trace back the roots of Eastern Timorese independentism. 
If there were some demonstrable and solid relation with the "anti-
communist" rebels of 1959 (obviously, the goal must have been to 
establish an "independent Timor" against Indonesia) and the current 
rulers of Eastern Timor, then many things would begin to become 
crystal clear.

To be honest:  I am not the man to do the research, but I believe 
that Australian cdes. should.

> 



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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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