Re: THE EAGLE

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 8:53 PM 5/10/96, Luis Quispe wrote:

>             THE EAGLE OF THE REVOLUTION
>     By Marcia, a combatant of the People's Army
>               [Spanish version below]
>
>     To the greatest man of the present era,
>     leader of the Party and the Peruvian
>     revolution, PRESIDENT GONZALO.
>
>Glorious years of struggle and victories
>marching forward to the seizure of power,
>today, as our People's Commitees are born,
>we're developing an unstopable mobile warfare.
>His thought leads our work and all our struggle,
>he is the greatest man of the era,
>President Gonzalo.
>
>You ask, who is President Gonzalo?
>He is the new leader of the heroic masses.
>Teacher among teachers, great among the greats.

[etc.]

What role does this kind of banal hero worship have in a movement calling
itself Marxist? I thought, in the words of the old Gang of Four song, that
"it's not made by great men."

Doug

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