Tovarish Spetsnaz wrote:Excuse MIM...I meant what does Siberia have to do with this...and what does Lenin have to do with this??
mim3 for the Maoist Internationalist Movement:
Siberia? Nothing. Lenin coined the definition of "imperialism" that
Stalin used, as I'm sure you are aware or you are less informed than the 13-year-olds following this thread.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/faq/imperialism.htmlTovarish Spetsnaz wrote:You brought up WW2...which is irrelevant to the discussion. ALL sides agreed that after WW2 Tito was going to give Kosova self-determination.
mim3 for the Maoist Internationalist Movement:
It sounds highly relevant judging from your response. If "all sides"
agreed, how about finding me a single quote from Stalin's vast collected works written while he was still alive. If it is such a slam-dunk then surely you should not avoid the subject. I won't even ask you to back it up with published words from Tito.
I've already given you the Stalin quote you really need to address, which is how has the KLA you root for done anything to weaken imperialism? The situation there created an excuse for imperialism to intervene and in UN form no less. How does that make imperialism weaker--unless of course we go with your definition of "imperialism" which makes Serbia
an imperialism. If so, find a quote from Lenin, Stalin or even Hoxha saying Serbia is imperialist. If you can't, all I'm saying is don't pretend to be a defender of Lenin and Stalin: that's all tovarish. That's all. Solidarity activist with the Albanian national struggle you probably are. Defender of Lenin and Stalin you are not.
Tovarish Spetsnaz wrote:ALL sides were saying Kosova should have self-determination and needed it. Stalin said if it didn't happen, than Yugoslavia would fall appart...just as it did.
mim3 for the Maoist Internationalist Movement:
This above very imprecise statement is without references that is based on a quote that comes only indirectly from Hoxha after Stalin died and could not contradict Hoxha.
And again it is irrelevant anyway, because all peoples have self-determination, but not all peoples advance the struggle against imperialism with their national struggle. Communists do not side with all national struggles in all contexts.
Tovarish Spetsnaz wrote:The issue here is self-determination for Kosova. If you are a communist...how can you stand against that?? Unless you are just the type of "communist" like Tito or Milosevic...
mim3 for the Maoist Internationalist Movement:
I've already answered this, but you didn't answer the question:
are you a communist or a poll-taker? Maybe my real confusion is that
I thought you claimed to be a communist defender of Stalin,
when all you do is avoid his advice and fail to reference him.
If in fact you never claimed to be other than a solidarity activist backing the national struggle of Kosova, then my mistake.
England, France, Germany, Serbia--everybody involved in World War I exerted self-determination. Yes, the majorities "democratically" chose their destiny of dying in trenches in a war for colonies. It doesn't change the fact that the war was stupid and that no communist backed it.
We communists have the guts to tell people when they act like lemmings.
Likewise with 31 people dying this month in Kosova in the beginning stages of another round of ethnic cleansing, it's easy for communists to say self-determination does not mean choosing intra-proletarian slaughter. Your sense of timing in this struggle is just impeccable, on the side of imperialism, which if you didn't notice, sent another 2000 troops to Kosova.
Now if your point was, Kosova people are attacking the UN/imperialist troops, I already said good. Do a good job and maybe Uncle $am will have to send some troops from Iraq or Afghanistan. Clearly though you think "self-determination" involves attacking exploited civilians. You even mask it with phraseology about "democracy."
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