RE: [Marxism] Camejo to speak at CCNY

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The demand that Marxists or that Revolutionaries or
Revolutionary Marxists put all their cards out on the
table, publish in advance their full program, is not just
wrong, it's 100% wrong-headed. Doing that would tip the
hand of the revolutionaries and provide ammunition to
the defenders of capitalism who, basing themselves on
a mixture of disinformation and the actual crimes of
Stalinism act to confuse the public.

Every grouping in today's world which is condemning Hugo
Chavez for failure to make the formal declaration that the
goal of the Bolivarian Revolution is declared "socialism",
"nationalization of industry" and taking Venezuela along
"the Cuban road" reflects an incapacity to understand that
revolutions, to be successful, and to last, must be based
in the realities of each country. They cannot be created
from a universally-applicable formula.
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Jose Marti explained this three days before his death in
his famous political testament, his letter to Manuel
Mercado. The final sentence is the decisive element.

My dearest brother: Now I can write, now I can tell you how
tenderly and gratefully and respectfully I love you and
that home which I consider my pride and responsibility.
I am in daily danger of giving my life for my country and
duty for I understand that duty and have the courage to
carry it out-the duty of preventing the United States
from spreading through the Antilles as Cuba gains its
independence, and from empowering with that additional
strength our lands of America. All I have done so far, and
all I will do, is for this purpose. I have had to work
quietly and somewhat indirectly, because to achieve certain
objectives, they must be kept under cover; to proclaim them
for what they are would raise such difficulties that the
objectives could not be attained.

Full text: http://makeashorterlink.com/?H32232B37
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People who failed to understand this essential conception
of political strategy have gone astray in the world. One
group who made this error was so foolish and brazen that
for OVER A YEAR AFTER THE TRIUMPH OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
they said that THE MAIN DANGER TO THE CUBAN REVOLUTION was
its very own leadership because it failed to do what those
New Yorkers had decided was decisive: laying it all out in
public view.

Here's a typical example from THE MILITANT in nineteen SIXTY:

These transitional measures are in the right direction. But
they were taken in response to immediate pressures. They
were not foreseen, still less included in the program of
the Castro leadership which spoke only vaguely of
nationalizing the electric and telephone companies. This
gives the revolution the appearance of headlessness. How
long can this petty-bourgeois government get by in such
fashion? At what point will it prove incapable of
transcending its petty-bourgeois character?

To consolidate the revolution, no choice is open but to
take the road of nationalizing the key industries,
instituting socialist property forms, constructing a
planned economy and undertaking an active policy for a
similar course throughout Latin America. The aim of Cuba's
foreign policy should be the formation of a United States
of Latin America that could unite all countries below the
Rio Grande in an interlocking socialist economy of enormous
productive capacity.

The alternative to that grandiose perspective is
stagnation, demoralization and decline of the Cuban
revolution, an eventual counter-revolutionary victory and
the restoration of a dictatorial regime even worse than
that of Batista.

Which will it be?
FULL TEXT:
http://www.walterlippmann.com/catc.html


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