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| Sri Lanka |
| Sri Lanka's Governing Coalition Breaks Up |
| 2005-06-16 |
 A government plan to share tsunami relief aid with Sri Lanka's separatist rebels drove a Marxist party from the government Thursday, a move that could threaten the ruling party's hold on power. The Marxists said they would leave the government if President Chandrika Kumaratunga did not back down on the plan to share the disaster aid with the Tamil Tiger insurgents, who have been waging a separatist war for two decades. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 In that case, they're not really Marxists, then. A true Marxist will murder people regardless of race, sex, color, or religion. National Socialist sounds right, though. They tend to put "race" (in some weird definition of "race" that works to their advantage) one step above economic class. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-16 19:25 |
| #3 The Marxists are more like National Socialists, in that they are made up strictly of Sinhalese, and are ultra-nationalists who will accept no accomadation with the Tamil Tigers. The JVP were responsible for most of the anti-Tamil pograms during the seventies. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2005-06-16 17:38 |
| #2 Well, for real doctrinaire Marxists, everything is based on the Class Struggle™, on economic classes. People organizating on racial or religious grounds are showing a false conciousness. Mainstream Democrats follow many of the precepts of Marxism, too, as in the recent book What's the Matter with Kansas. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-16 12:29 |
| #1 Are the Tigers Trotskyites or something, that the Marxists reject them so harshly? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-16 05:46 |