[Marxism] Yes, Kissinger, but...

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Yes, Louis, Kissinger supported the Suharto regime in the invasion to 
East Timor.  I know that.  China also supported Pinochet, for that 
matter.

What I have asked is an entirely different question.

I understand that you, a serious Marxists living in the USA, are 
interested in fighting your own bourgeoisie, and thus whatever 
Kissinger supports is _prima facie_ prone to our hatred.  Not 
mocking. I understand that.

But my question, I don't know if I could pose it in such a way as to 
have it clear, is a different one.

I assume that whatever the global stakes in the game, politics (and 
revolutionary politics in particular) is always _local_.  That is, it 
must always consult the local situation and the deep local trends, 
and establish a program for the future _on the local ground_, not _on 
any abstract, even geopolitical, measuring rod_.

Thus, again:  my question was not on what Kissinger would do.  He 
would support Suharto, of course.  He was in struggle with the Soviet 
Union and the FreTiLiN seemed to be on the Soviet camp, while Suharto 
was on the US camp.  My question is a stronger one, and I'm afraid 
not even you can answer it (not because you are not aware of the 
issue, but simply because you _consistently fight your own 
bourgeoisie, and this is OK with me_).

My question is:  did the Leftist leadership of the Eastern Timorese 
people take the good measures, or they _entered the Catch-22 of 
Kissinger by setting themselves on the Soviet camp without a second's 
consideration to what this would mean to the people they led_?

I don't know.  I don't even know if there were any East Timorese 
people who supported this point of view I am suggesting.  I know 
nothing about anything South Western Pacific.  But for one thing:  
Australia is an imperialist country, and Indonesia is a semicolonial 
country.

I admit that mine is a very articulate construction based on almost 
nothing.  But what if.

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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