Re: What holds us back?

[David Walters <dwalters@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis, how do you define breakthoughs? Latin America is one place where
several Trotskyist parties had and still have some mass influence, primarily
in the unions. At various times in Argentina, Brasil, Peru and Mexico Trotkyist
organizations made tremendous breakthoughts in organizing large sections of
the class under their banner. Interestingly enough, execept in Cuba, no
"Communist" party of anystipe has done any better, including Peru.

I don't think the influence, for example, of the righwing Communist Party
of Chile is anything to brag about. The Argentine CP, though larger than
the Trotskyists, were at time much less influential among the working class
than the PST/MAS, in the 70s and 80s.

The "breakthoughs" of the CPs in Latin America, if one wants to define this
as close to or aboslute hegemony over large sections of the class, given
the historical class colaborationist politics of the CPs and Stalinism,
certainly is not a good thing, it is a bad thing.

David


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