Re: Fw: Annan blames Ethiopia...

There are at least two struggles that occur in capitalist colonial
situations. One is the struggle of the working classes to overthrow
capitalist rule and replace it with a democratic system. The other is to
overthrow colonial rule and achieve a measure of self-determination. The
Oromo people have the right not to be enslaved by external oppressors.
Would one suggest that African Americans should not have been emancipated
from slavery because they are now wage-laborers? To be sure, these
struggles are linked, just as they are linked with other struggles of age
and gender, but this is why the immediate struggle for self-determination
cannot be sacrificed to an ideal vision of the future - especially because
self-determinism is part of concretely achieving that vision.

Andrew Austin