Re: Characteristics of slums - urban poor?

[hariette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (hariette spierings)]

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>Given the right lead by those organized in an effective revolutionary
>workers' party (including of course members of the urban poor), the urban
>poor will provide high-octane fuel for the revolution.
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>Maybe the agitation will centre on something like:
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>Food, Flats, and Freedom from Crime.
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>Cheers,
>
>Hugh
>


Sorry to butt in Hugh:

The revolution does not need "high octane fuel".  Your "technologically
advanced methaphore" somehow reminds them of the old one of "cannon fodder".
The revolution does need a leading class, and it is got one, the proletariat
which generate its communist Parties as the thinking and guiding organ of
the class.
The working class, to strenghten their hand in the contest against the
semi-feudal-semi-colonial states such as Peru and Colombia and also Brasil,
needs to draw to its side the masses of the poor as ALLIES and not as cannot
fodder or any sort of fuel doing the dying and "burning themselves out" for
the benefit of the "correct leadership".

The revolution is "fuelled" - meaning that its fires are stoked - by the
actions of the ruling classes and their states in repressing the poor
fighting for their livelihood and the future generations.

Moreover, your slogan:

"Food, Flats, and Freedom from Crime", is the very slogan of every tin-pot
dictator and electoral drug money financed swindler in Latin America, take
two or three pennies either way from the price of potatoes!

Sorry, but maybe you ought to take a sabbatical in Latin America, Hugh


Adolfo



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