Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution

["Xxxx Xxxxxx" <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I  just wonder, Chris, why don't you defend your reformist  ideas in
non-Marxist list servs? Evidently, what is happening in Argentina may not be
a revolution, because what is needed is a vanguard party to organize the
masses, as Lou says, but it is a mass/popular uprising that is leading way
to class struggles. You don't make revolutions in one night. They come out
of mass movements.

btw, let me pose another question. You like to think yourself as a Marxist
of some sort. What is your *exact* position on US  war in Afghanistan? Are
you defending it  as you defended  the NATO intervention in Kosovo on
Marxism list before your were thrown off the list?

Mine


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution


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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