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[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Fred Feldman <ffeldman at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> Artesian wrote:
> The late Mark Jones disagreed with about everything I said, and vice-versa.
> But, I wrote on one occasion, if Savimbi had won in Angola, and if 3 years
> after that he fell out with his imperialist sponsors, even if it was over
> his simple greed to claim more of the mineral wealth as his own, and if
> those sponsors then called for sanctions or fielded a force to overthrow
> Savimbi, we, as Marxists would oppose those sanctions and that field force
> without changing our analysis and opposition to Savimbi one bit.   Mark
> wrote me to say that he found that our agreement on that position to be
> worth more than all the strenuous disagreements we had.
>
> Fred Feldman comments:
>
> Well, this is the closest thing to a statement I 100 percent agree with in
> the discussion.

Fred,

Out of curiosity, what was your stand with regard to the demand for
western sanctions against apartheid South Africa? Were you
pro-sanctions/anti-sanctions, or were you abstentionist/agnostic on
the issue?

Thanks,

R. Critic