Re: Comments on Louis' History of Trotskyism and Vladimir is

[Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept@xxxxxxxx>]

".. Proletarian revolutions, like those of the 19th century, criticise
themselves constantly, interrupt themselves continually in their own course,
come back to the apparently accomplished in order to begin it afresh, deride
with unmerciful thoroughness the inadequecies, weaknesses and paltrinesses
of their first attempts, seem to throw down their adversary only in order
that he may draw new strength from the earth and rise again, more gigantic,
before them, recoil ever and anon from the indefinite prodigiousness of
their own aims, until
a situation has been created which makes all turning back impossible, and
the conditions themselves cry out:
        Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
        Here is the rose, here dance!"

(Marx, somewhere in 18th Brumaire)

Which is, imo, at least, if not more, as courageous and revolutionary as
"assuming the revolution's 'horror's without cowardly reservations".

Zeynep

>From: louisgodena@xxxxxxx (Louis R Godena)
>Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 18:07:12 -0400
>Subject: Re: Comments on Louis' History of Trotskyism and Vladimir is not
been candid!
>
>Adolfo, my friend, you write:
>
>>Maybe it is this thing we Peruvians have
>>inherited from Mariategui, you know, that point about communists "assuming
>>the revolution's "horrors" without cowardly reservations".
>
>Can you give me the context in which Mariategui made this remark?    Gramsci
>used a strikingly similar phrase in 1928, shortly after the "left turn" of
>the Comintern.    I
>
>I note your explanation concerning the bank account of Sol Peru.    Can we
>now expect "Qusipe",  Malecki, and Burford himself to publicly reveal the
>activities surrounding their own "solidarity accounts".
>
>I thought so.
>
>
>Louis (G)



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