[Marxism] My final point

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

J.M.P.Cloke en lboro.ac.uk escribió:
> 
> ...my respectful answer to Nestor is: I don't know if I'm a Marxist - 
> but neither do you; I don't know enough about it or myself - but neither 
> do you. An essential difference between us, however, seems to be that 
> I'm happy to debate my ideas and have them shot down - and you're not.


My avowedly disrespectful answer to this, Mr. Cloke, is that as a 
serious _radical Marxist in Argentina_ I volunteered to fight for the 
Argentinean side, that is, my side, during the South Atlantic War, and 
that I don´t care about shooting down imperialist ideas, I rather care 
about shooting down imperialists. Even at the risk of my own life, the 
case may come, which fortunately enough has not.

But I was not sent to the front (too old for that, they said, though in 
some cases other volunteers were sent to risky places with no 
cosideration to age but to abilities).

However, I helped in that war effort by a semicolonial country by 
confronting on the media the Thatcherian rant of imperialist preachers 
whose main line of attack was precisely the one you have raised here: 
that Britain was a "democracy", that the islands were "useless rocks" 
(pray tell  me then why did the NATO attack us on that ground?), and 
that the war was a war of the Argentiean military agaist the British 
people who had simply translated to the international scenario the war 
they had been waging against their own people, presumably just for their 
own benefit and against the will of every "democratic" and honorable 
nation in the Civilized Western World.

So that whenever I see the same old rant appear with "Leftish" cloak, I 
can´t but think of all the young Argentinean soldiers who were 
exchanging ammo (and not precisely by way of peaceful trade) with the 
British troops while I sat waging that keyboard war through the news 
agencies. Sorry if I get a bit sentimental on these issues. I am sure 
that your Bourdieu will not impede your understanding.

Ah, BTW, I feel that as a geographer, given you seem to consider 
yourself some kind of "radical", you are not up to the task of the 
subject matter you broach. I tell you this as a geographer.