[Marxism] Guess what? Bolivia wants peace...all Bolivia

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:56:05 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net>
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>INCA KOLA NEWS
>10/18/08
>
>Guess what? Bolivia wants peace...all Bolivia
>
>http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2008/10/guess-what-bolivia-wants-peaceall.html

Can somebody tell us who is behind this website that is named after a product that is 50% (or is it 60%?) owned by the Coca Cola company?

>"Jaw jaw is better than war war."
>Winston Churchill (a man who knew about both)

Churchill, were he alive, would undoubtedly be supporting the Euro-Bolivian capitalists and might even be offering them some of the poison gas he used in his younger days to "jaw" with rebellious Iraqi tribesmen.

>Leaders of Bolivia, militants, national and local governments, indigenous
>resistance groups, fascist shock troops; please take notice.
>
>Yesterday the United Nations released a survey taken of over 2,000 Bolivians
>from all departments and all walks of life (margin of error on survey +/-2.11%).
>The results might surprise people who've never been to Bolivia or bothered to
>speak to any of its citizens before opening their mouths and opinionating about
>what's going on. Bolivians recognize the need to change their country, they
>don't not support violence, they want to two sides to talk for as long as
>necessary in order to reach an agreement etc etc. and according to the suvey
>that's as true in the "rebel states" of Santa Cruz and the other medialunas as
>it is in the eastern pro-Morales states.

Fundamental disputes often get resolved by violence even when the majority of people on both sides want a peaceful solution. The problem, of course, is that the peaceful solutions wanted by the two sides are incompatible.

BTW, one of the main slogans of the Chilean Popular Unity in the months before the coup was "No to Civil War!". Unfortunately, they got their wish.

 - Aaron