Re: reply to Alan Bradley re PRD & DSP

["Alan Bradley" <alanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Tom O'Lincoln"
> If democracy is not a realistic possibility under capitalism, just what
> *is* the content of the "democratic revolution" that the PRD advocates --
> with the theoretical support of the DSP? I know from many discussions
> that Indonesian comrades generally imagine they can make a "democratic
> revolution", after which there will be "real" democracy as exists in
> Australia. The army will be semi-neutral in society (Wilson, a (former? -
> I hear rumours) PRD leader, is on the public record as saying it WILL be
> neutral, but that is only a public stance, off the record the PRD is a
> bit more realistic than that) and the struggle for socialism will be
> qualititatively easier.

Well, I don't have any particular problem with that as long as the
democratic revolution involves the smashing of the bourgeois state and its
replacement with (some form or other of) the dictatorship of the
proletariat.  That _would_ make the struggle for socialism at least
quantitatively easier.

Are there PRD members that disagree with the above?  Probably.  Are there
ex-PRD members that do?  Definitely.

Alan Bradley
alanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx