Fw: Washington plans to NOT improve relations with Malaysia (fwd)

["M.G.G. Pillai" <pillai@mgg.pc.my>]

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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:04:57 +0800
From: "Charles F. Moreira" <charlesm@maxis.net.my>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@relay3.jaring.my;>
Subject: Fw: Washington plans to NOT improve relations with Malaysia

Folks,

In this statement, George Pennefather analyses Washington's plans to not
improve its relations with Malaysia.

George Pennefather is a contributor to the Communist Think-Tank and I'm sure
Mahathir will love him for this.

While I agree with his analysis on this matter, I don't agree with
the general line of the Communist Think-Tank towards Marx and Lenin -- a
line which seems to be influenced by Trotskyite ideas.

However, what this think-tank represents is an attempt by people around the
world to take a fresh look at Communism in the wake of the collapse of the
Soviet Union and to come up with new theories on how to re-build the
Communist movement and how to avoid its earlier pitfalls.

One thing which they are not doing though, is to buy into the idea that they
have to compromise with the neo-liberal, globalisation ideas of the late
1980's and 1990s' -- ideas which are becoming increasingly discredited.

Anyway, George Pennefather does not appear to be a Trotskyite, while the
other contributor, Karl Carlile does, since he refers to the Revolutionary
Communist Group which is a Trotskyite group in Britain.

Regards

Charles

----- Original Message -----
From: George Pennefather <poseidon@eircom.net>
To: Capital and Class <capital-and-class@mailbase.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 4:48 AM
Subject: [communist think-tank] Malaysia and Washington and the CIS


Washington has just stated that it is not intending to improve its
relations with Malaysia. 

Here is a classic case of American imperialism: Malaysia in labouring to
deal with its economic malaise refused to co-operate with bodies such as
the IMF and instead used its own protectionist like methods. The result
was is an improved economic situation. 

Furthermore the political set-up in Malaysia, while not democratic in
the Western sense, is effective in preventing the political and economic
disintegration of Malaysia. This contrasts with the situation in
Indonesia. 

In the light of this Malaysia has been promoting regional security and
economic autonomy as a means of fostering stability in the Far East
--calling on Japan to turn the yen into an international currency and
ASEAN to develop its own regional security. 

Because Malaysia has refused to completely subordinate itself to Western
imperialism Washington is prepared to make things tough for Malaysia
--even if this means increasing the chances of instability developing
there. 

So Washington is so savagely and crudely imperialist that is prepared to
destabilise a country in an already potential very unstable part of the
world because a right wing capitalist state will not become a pliant
satrap of Washington. 

Washington cannot tolerate any kind of independence --even if from a
right wing standpoint. Indeed this late-colonialism of Washington has as
its ideological and political vehicle the criterion of formal democracy. 

The US is attempting to restructure its imperialist relations by means
of the standard of formal democracy. Besides this it constitutes an
effective means of subjecting a third world country to its imperialist
needs it has the added bonus as appearing as a plausible demand --a
useful ideology. 

It is said that the Cold War is over. But the Cold War can never be over
under present conditions. Washington by means of NATO is attempting to
develop its ring around both the CIS and China. 

The only essential difference is that the form by which this is now
being done has changed somewhat. The ring has grown smaller. Before the
Middle East formed part of the ring. Now the ring has moved eastwards to
the Caucasus. 

Warm regards
George Pennefather

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