Re: [Marxism] The latest round of debate on Evo...

["Mike Friedman" <mikedf@xxxxxxxx>]

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Nothing that occurs anywhere in Latin America (or any "Third World"
region) can be so blithely divorced from imperialism. The class struggle
in these areas is inevitably a struggle against imperialism. Therefore,
the class struggle is first and foremost a fight for national liberation.
Your "concrete struggle" proves the point: "neoliberal capitalism" is a
product of the machinations of capital via the world market. That is the
"concrete" meaning of the water and gas wars.


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> But the deeper question is not about frameworks; it is about the struggle
> on the ground.  However much the world struggle against imperialism is a
> major factor in Joaquin's own analysis, it is markedly *not* a factor in
> what is happening in Bolivia.  There, the resistance to neoliberal
> capitalism has taken on concrete form in the gas and water wars, the sort
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