[Marxism] Re: A clarification on Peronism, Zionism and Socialism

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

.    On  07.04.05
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NG> I am for national revolutions in the Third World, a completely
NG> different issue.


r> These are difficult, but essential questions.  As it is "national,"
r> devoid of specific class content has a specific class content-- and
r> that is anti-revolutionary, anti-socialist.

   I very much like a remark which Trotsky made in one of his articles  
calling the Communist Party of Germany to a united-front strategy  
against the rise of the fascist menace:

   "The interests of a nation can only be expressed as the interests  
of the ruling class or the class aspiring to rule."

   In a colonial situation, or more generally, the situation of an  
oppressed nation or nationality, the working classes and the  
propertied classes share, at least objectively, a common interest,  
i.e. to free the nation of foreign oppression and foreign  
interference, so that it can develop moved by that nations _own_  
forces and ... struggles.

   This applies also to other democratic goals distorting the "normal"  
class relations, as the racist Apartheid system in South Africa. Even  
if the abolishment of Apartheid did not grow over into a socialist  
revolution, it is a huge achievement not only for South Africa and the  
rest of Africa, but for all of humanity, to hav gotten rid of that  
cancer.

   The organization of the working class to its own self-consciousness  
can only succed, if it does take serious such democratic goals.


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