Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 07:40:11 +0000, Chris Burford wrote:
>
>The IMF is not crying for Argentina. It has
>almost certainly calculated on  the riots.
>
>Progressive people must be as hard-headed.
>
>This is not a revolution.

This is pure tripe. Revolutions don't materialize out of nowhere like
some deus ex machina. They gestate out of a series of escalating
struggles, some of which are blunted or defeated. In the process of
these struggles, the masses become educated.

Obviously what's lacking in Argentina is a mass vanguard
organization. What appears not to be lacking is the will to fight,
which sadly disappeared in Russia quite some time ago. And in
sections of the British post-Communist left as well.

--
Louis Proyect, lnp3@xxxxxxxxx on 12/22/2001

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