Re: [Marxism] Gerald Horne on Patrick Bond

["andypollack@xxxxxxxx" <andypollack@xxxxxxxx>]

By coincidence, last night the portside list sent out a speech by the head of 
COSATU (delivered to a new institute on global labor at Cornell's New York 
branch) full of Mbeki-esque excuses for not confronting capital internally or 
externally.  On the other hand the list also had an excellent talk by Bill 
Fletcher at the same venue detailing the limitations of the AFL's approach to 
international issues, and calling for them to go beyond their limited critique 
of multinational corporate behavior and instead to make the link between that 
behavior and Washington's war and empire-building policy.

Both speeches are at the portside archives:
http://people-link5.inch.com/pipermail/portside/Week-of-Mon-20041018/date.html, 
toward the bottom under the titles:
Bill Fletcher Jr: Seattle At Five   moderator at portside.org
Z.Vavi (COSATU): On Labor and Global Change   moderator

-- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(Interesting review of Patrick Bond's books by Gerald Horne, who writes
for Political Affairs, a magazine that used to be the CPUSA's official
theoreticial journal. In a communication to the swans mailing list, Joel
Wendland advised us that the magazine is now independent. However, I
would suggest that it is independent in the same sense that Against the
Current is independent of Solidarity. Horne makes the argument that
Mbeki would push through a more fundamental socio-economic program if
his hands were not tied by a domestic opposition--ostensibly the
Afrikaner ruling class--that still retains control of the "commanding
heights of the economy". Odd that Horne would fail to mention that the
ANC itself has been working overtime to get its share of the pie itself.



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