[Marxism] Not anger, not at all

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig B. has replied to my posting today re: the Western "left" (or 
even the Western _left_) and Iraq.

He explains that one should not be angry at that left, because the 
tasks ahead are immense.

Just to make it clear: I am not angry at all.

It is not my mood to blame entire classes or nations (whatever some 
may believe). I would yes point out responsibilities, which is an 
entirely different thing.  For example, I feel that the French 
working class (and to a certain extent, the Italian working class) 
has a good deal of responsibility in the events that took place in 
Europe after 1945.  

But I would not blame the American working class for its own slowness 
to understand the actual things at stake.  Empires are forged to 
generate that slowness.  A good digestion tends to make lazy minds, 
as some Latin American said of us Argentineans half a century ago.

However, it is a serious problem (a serious _global_ problem) that 
the movement agains the Iraq war has not gained enough momentum to 
make its slanderers turn pale before they charge against it with such 
idiocies as "you're supporting people who kills Americans".  The day 
the logical answer ("no. it is you who works for those who send 
Americans to death") becomes common sense, then the Iraqis shall have 
won the war.

If I were the Iraqi resistance I would be drafting plans for a 
"Solidarity Committee with the American People" such as the 
institution founded by Ho Chi Minh during the VN war.  But I am not 
the Iraqi resistance. They certainly know better than me.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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