Re: Stop the damn posturing

[malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)]

>On Fri, 10 May 1996, Robert Malecki wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, i have been doing my best Louis. One thing i wasn,t doing was giving
>> uncritical support to the Sandinistas. Then i helped point out that the
>
>Louis: I was recruiting engineers, machinists, computer programmers to
>keep Nicaragua's infrastructure going while my country was trying to
>destroy it during the contra war. I was also organizing coalitions to stop
>contra funding. These are *actions*. You and the nameless other people you
>refer to when you say "we" did nothing but talk. Talk does not confront
>capitalism; mass action does. You talk and talk and talk. In my book this
>is called an armchair-revolutionary. It is a form of behavior that is
>typical of the intellectuals you curse at every day on this list.
>

Louis,s criteria for armchair revolutionaries is quite interesting. But as
usual wrong.
in the first place your criteria would put Lenin in the position of the
armchair because of his position of "turning the imperialist war..." against
all those people who through their actions were supporting their own
bougeoisie..Because he was doing it from a comfortable exile in Switzerland.

Secondly you condemed the Morenoites and there International brigade and
defended the Sandinistas for locking them up and deportation. The Morenoites
were prepared to die with guns in hand to defend some of those computers and
engineers your talking about. But above all to stand on the side of the
revolution..So your armchair talk is a bit absurd..

And thirdly confronting capitalism with a program and line which only can
lead to defeat though its actions of the proletariat and the peasantry vs a
line which can lead to victory. That is the real criteria for action. i.e.
putting thoughts into action
which will determine if the action will be successful or not.

Your formula has been proved in action and failed. the Bolshevik-Leninist
formula was also proved in Russia and succeeded. Thats the real difference here.

And you my friend, in reality, belong obviously to those who believe action
in itself means progress.. What is interesting is that you do not critise
those who attack you from the right, but save your venom for those who
attack you from the left. It really doesn,t have anything to do with
armchairs at all. Its Louis and his hate of the revolutionary wing of the
workers movement that send him off in a foaming rage which has nothing to do
with armchairs at all..

Warm Regards
malecki





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