[Marxism] Re: Marxism Digest, Vol 5, Issue 115

[Matthew Dubuque <mdubuque@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis, although what you say is true (that the previous tenure of the 
Socialists in Spain was deeply corrupt and neoliberal), by no means is Zapatero 
an absolute clone of the previous incarnation of Spanish socialists.  He is 
very much a young Turk striking out on his own.

And almost anything is better than having the explicitly racist Aznar, with his 
sneering disdain of Spain's Arab minority so obviously displayed in public at 
the helm.

Every nation chooses a different historical path of progress towards the truth. 
 Spanish history has been dominated by the Inquisition and Franco.  Aznar was 
cut from that very same cloth; his father was head of state media under Franco.

Spain's historical development is therefore necessarily related to those 
objective precursor events, events and conditions which never took place in 
China or Russia or Germany or any other country, events which influence their 
trajectory towards moral development.

Every country chooses its individual path towards liberation.  And Spain is 
choosing theirs.  Zapatero is an enormous improvement over Franco and those 
that collaborated with Franco's butchery.

In terms of whether Spain will leave Iraq, the current talk is of a swap 
whereby the Spanish contingent in Iraq would go to Afghanistan and the German 
part of the NATO force in Afghanistan would go to Iraq.

This is what they were discussing behind closed doors yesterday at the EU 
summit.

In solidarity,

Matthew


Message: 9
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:38:48 -0500
From: Louis Proyect
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Spain: AlQaeda AAttacks Awaken Old Feuds (Wall
Street Journal)
To: walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Activists and scholars in Marxist
tradition
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Walter wrote:
>Naturally, there will be those types who will militantly
>try to discourage Spaniards from keeping up the struggle.
>They'll say "beware"! Zapatero's a no-good reformistical
>social democratic faker just fronting for imperialism!
>But then, there are always people who say that nothing
>can be done, isn't that true?

This is silly. The Spanish Social Democracy is pretty god-damned rotten. It
got voted out of power because it was carrying out a neoliberal economic
program, just like fellow Social Democrat Mitterand carried out in France.
It has also been just as dead set against the rights of the Basques as the
Popular Front was in the 1930s. Just because Fidel Castro says something as
a head of state, there is no reason for us to tail-end him. He has somewhat
different needs than we do. It is not as if what he is saying is wrong, it
is just not sharp enough.


Louis Proyect
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