Re: Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution

[Julio Fernández Baraibar <julfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bravo, Louis.
Revolution is not a declaration.
And when I heard word proggressive people my hand look for a revolver. They don't use to do revolutions.

Julio Fernández Baraibar

>  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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