Re: [Marxism] Re: Hugo Chavez, Celia Hart, and the future of "Trotskyi sm"

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

I think working for the dissolution of our (Trotskyist) current is a worthwhile 
goal TO THE EXTENT THAT ITS MERITS HAVE BEEN ABSORBED BY A BROADER CURRENT. The 
danger is in putting aside that goal in the desire to be part of the same 
revolutionary group/current/international without coming to principled 
agreement.

History did not stop with Trotsky, and an integration of the lessons learned by 
other currents -- Castroist, Sandinista, Chavista, etc. -- is crucial.  That 
cannot be done by ignoring differences, but rather by comradely dialogue and 
common work.

Do these currents -- or other nonTrotskyist currents -- have a strategy for 
rebuilding a class-struggle left-wing in the US?  For rebuilding a communist 
presence in the Arab world?  If yes, even if only partially, than we are 
further along in the dissolution process than I thought. If not, then the 
Trotskyist movement still needs to regroup, to expand, to make its views more 
concrete, more current, and better known.



-- l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms) wrote:
.    On  08.12.04
  wrote  ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Fred Feldman)
     on  /ALIST/MARXMAIL
     in  000001c4dd5b$a065e010$6401a8c0@fredpc
  about  [Marxism] Hugo Chavez, Celia Hart, and the future of "Trotskyism"


   Changing some words in this Freds remarks, I endorse it fully,
voting for its general line with both hands:

FF>        [Our] course should not be towards hegemony for [our]
FF> current in Venezuela, Cuba, or on a world scale, but

FF> toward the disappearance of Trotskyism as a distinct current that
FF> was _forced into existence_ by the Stalinist political
FF> counterrevolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s,


FF> which prepared and led to the disintegration of the conquests of
FF> the revolution which was clearly registered by the events of the
FF> early 90s.


Yours,
Lüko Willms                                     http://www.mlwerke.de
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