Re: [Marxism] Kirchner

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Walters wrote:
> Louis, you sound like Fausto Armador who said "The Sandinistas couldn't
> win, look at their history...".

As if these Trotskyist sects in Argentina had anything to do with the
Sandinista revolution. It is a real tragedy that some tens of thousands of
young radicals in Argentina have dissipated their efforts in trying to
establish their Trotskyist pedigrees. The Workers Party website is utterly
depressing.

> No one is 'leading' the revolution in Argentina. Many groups are active,
> like the PO, PCR and Nestor's group. It depends on the ability of any one
> group, or group or groups, to lead the masses in struggle against the
> state. These groups all have mass influence. I'm not making any predictions.

I am making a prediction. You can count on it. Any group that puts stuff
like this on their website will not take power. As a rule of thumb, any
political person or group who is devoted to re-founding the Fourth
International is not in touch with reality.

===

We stress that the world socialist revolution that opened its circle in
October 1917 in Russia has not ended; our epoch is the epoch of the
imperialist decline of capitalism and of transition to world communism, an
epoch of wars and revolutions, as Iraq and Bolivia remind us. A
revolutionary International of the proletariat and the oppressed is needed
now more than ever before; and this International cannot but be based on a
revolutionary program and upon all the experience in the struggle for
emancipation, not upon historical amnesia nor upon the lack of a program,
which always facilitates class collaboration and leads inescapably to
treason and to defeat. For these reasons, we propose to all vanguard
revolutionary forces, coming from both Trotskyist and non Trotskyist
traditions, that the new International should be a re-founded Fourth
International.

The speed of world developments makes it necessary for us to accelerate our
struggle. The World Congress next April in Buenos Aires should be at the
center of the conscious preparations of all revolutionaries, both inside
and outside the framework of the MRFI. The program and the next steps
towards the International are the more urgent tasks of this historical
moment in every country and on every continent.

full: http://www.po.org.ar/english/827art.htm


Louis Proyect
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