Re: [Marxism] Popular Front

["rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remember Ripley's great line among great lines in <Aliens,> before the
board of inquiry?

Aren't we forgetting a little something?  Like history, like the
transformation of the bourgeoisie ascendant against its own preconditons
to the bourgeoisie reactionary against its own supercession?  Aren't we
forgetting  little things like the change from a  capital forced to tear
up, literally, the plantation/slavery property form in the South in
the1860s,  to a capital willing, eager, loving to accommodate the
plantation/neo-slavery landed forms of property, as in the Philippines
in 1898?

Aren't we forgetting a little thing like the abandonment, defeat of
Radical Reconstruction?

Aren't we forgetting a little thing like the Russian Revolution, a
workers revolution,which conquered power in direct oppositon to "proto"
popular fronts of that time, by sticking to its independent
organizations of class power to execute its uneven and combined class
program?

How long was Ripley drifting, asleep, in space?  60 years?  At least she
woke up when salvaged.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: [Marxism] Popular Front


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