Re: [Marxism] re: Fanon

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

By coincidence yesterday the Marxists Internet Archive posted Trotsky's letter 
to the workers of India. I would encourage Comrade Alam to see whether it meets 
his standards, and if not so how, concerning Marxism's ability to see 
imperialism as perpetually enslaving colonies and their inhabitants (as opposed 
to developing them), the need for struggle against the imperialists and their 
stooges -- including armed struggle -- and the other perceived failings of the 
legitimate (i.e. non-Stalinist or Social Democratic) Marxist tradition.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1939/1939-india.htm

-- "M. Junaid Alam" <mjunaidalam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
However, I stand by my claim that classical Marxism did not and could not 
accurately synthesize the full meaning, consequences, and dynamics of the 
core-periphery relationship.

I think Philip is really cutting a wide swath around reality when he writes:

This "moving detail" and "humanist terms" concerns precisely the violence of 
the backward fellah, the Algerian native peasant, against the advanced French 
white settler.


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