Re: Fw: Annan blames Ethiopia...

I wholeheartedly agree with Andrew!

Alexy
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>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
>
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