18th Brumaire of Louis Proyect

[Alex Trotter <uburoi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis has just delivered a speech worthy of the windbag Maximum Leader he
admires so much on the virtues of bureaucratic quasi-leninist formations
in Latin America. Revolutionary nationalism led by celebrity tropical
stalins? Not for me; I'll fight for myself, thanks. Perhaps Louis will
tell us why the Sandinista National Liberation Front saw fit to ban
strikes. He likes to ridicule the orthodox Trots and CPs and the cobwebs
that grow on them, but has a soft spot for the 'younger' varieties of
authoritarian leftism. And, just as in the case of Soviet Russia, it
won't do to blame all their shortcomings on the machinations of imperialism.
        A good account of the Cuban Revolution I remember reading was a
book by the late anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff, in which he compared
Castro's triumphal entry into Havana with Mussolini's march on Rome.

As Che put it,

'Five, six, seven unabombers!'

--AT




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