[Marxism] Targeted Countries

[james daly]

Surely all this ought ought to be taken for granted by Marxists? -- J. D.


full at (30th June)

http://gowans.blogspot.com/


Stephen Gowans provides the latest commentary on the misdirection by the
Western media in its coverage of the Zimbabwean elections.


Defending the Indefensible: Sham Democracy Promoter Defends Imperialist Ties

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"What Zunes leaves out or does not understand is that non-violent
pro-democracy movements are often powerless without imperialist governments
first threatening or deploying military interventions, imposing sanctions
and blockades and broadcasting anti-government propaganda, thereby turning
the population of targeted countries against their governments. In other
words, *the bad guys Zunes can rail against to establish his leftist
credentials* (my emphasis - J. D.) do the dirty work while his people's
forces come in at the end to effect the coup de grace. The result is never
democracy, in the original sense of the word, but improved trade and
investment conditions for Western economic elites - the same elites Sharp
and Zunes are taking foundation lucre from".

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( Zunes says ) governments can't be brought down unless they lose popular
support.

Zunes' last point is true, but the pressure Western governments exert on
foreign policy targets through threats of war, bombing campaigns, sanctions,
and propaganda, go a long way toward alienating target governments of
popular support, and thereby preparing the ground for Sharp- and
Zunes-trained overthrow movements to go to work.

Serbia, whose once social- and publicly-owned enterprises have been sold off
to Western investors, is a model of what overthrow movements Zunes
celebrates and assists produce.

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J. D.