[Marxism] Grant's group.

[dwalters@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Nestor,I am curious about what the Grant group's position(s) on Argentina you
found agreement with? Their support for the British colonists or their use of
the term "Falkland Islands" instead of the Malvinas? ;)

I am also curious as to who or what you were seemingly polemicizing with? You
are correct on one thing...I was too genteel with the terms "Party of the
bourgeois opposition", probably it would of sufficed to say "...on the side of
the Revolution or the side of the Counter-revolution". I brought up the
Albanians because they were or are the only group that is avowedly Marxist (I
think there was one other) than I'm aware of that stood with the counter-
revolutionaires...and Vadim is wrong, from what I can garner, to suggest that
Trotskyists IN Venezuela also stood with the counter-revolutionary forces. The
other Marxist groups, and there are not that many, marched in defense of the
country and against imperialism.

On your statement "It is as if you "supported the Russian masses in 1917 but
criticized the Bolshevik leadership" is quite devoid anything useful...it
wasn't UNTIL October that the Bolshevisks received a small majority in the
Soviet (All-Russian) votes. Prior to that it was quite a small part of "The
Masses" that stood with the Bolsheviks. Even in Venezuala, not all groups that
have demonstrated and fought the counter-revolution are necessarily *in*
Chavez's political organization. It is far from homogeneous, which is probably
a healthy thing...

David



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