Re: [Marxism] Attitude toward Iraqi CP

[DLVinvest@xxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/9/04 5:30:20 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
alexlocascio@xxxxxxxx writes:
> their comrades in
> >Nicaragua who urged a vote for Violetta Chamorro in 1990
>
> Is this true?(!)
sadly, yes.. the Nica CP was briefly supportive of the Sandinista Front's
first government, but never held any sway or seats in the 9-member national
directorate formed under Cuban auspices by the three main revolutionary 
factions;
later, the CP became one of the constituents of the US-driven UNO coalition in
which it took a back seat ("tailing", if you will) to the armed contras. But
the largest faction of the FSLN, the "terceristas" led by the Ortegas,
negotiated its own accomodation with Chomorro, who allowed them to keep key 
positions
in the police and army (and impunity from prosecution -- or persecution -- for
alleged crimes and corruption in the "pinata" of ersatz privatization of
public property and enterprises in the run-up to the elections that culminated 
in
the counter-revolutionary victory. This reflected the rough military
equilibrium (especially after the withdrawal of soviet support), the political 
weakness
of the FSLN as it lost support after the long years of war, and arguably the
growth of state property relative to private business -- a kind of political
diversification of the economic interests of the old elite and their progeny.
The Nicaraguan CP had very little credibility or influence in any of this,
other than to confuse a few "sandalistas" in the US, who were plenty muddled
already by the demand for solidarity inspired by the FSLN coalition in power.

Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr.
Investigations
for Print, Film & Electronic Media
3140 W. 32nd Ave.
Denver CO 80211
303-455-9429
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