Re: Death Agony of the Socialist Alliance continues

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:39  25/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> the worst days of the Shining Path flame wars.


I remember them, but Marcus had slipped below the recall
threshold.  Thoughts of the Maoist conflagration came back to me when I
read a recent post about the guerrillas in Nepal.  I wish the rebels there
all the very best of course. If they won through then it would make
something of a difference.  However I do not believe that it could ever
ignite the imagination (and I chose that word deliberately) of the
oppressed of the world.

Maoism as practised by the Shining Path and I suspect the revolutionaries
in Nepal is simply not emancipatory enough to serve as a rallying point in
the way that the Russian revolution of 1917 did.

And that is something our protagonists of yesteryear could not bring
themselves to admitting.

regards

Gary



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