[Marxism] Water, gas and imperialism

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 27, Issue 18"
Enviado por:marxism-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Con fecha:6 Jan 2006, a las 12:00

> The water and gas struggles are the center of the Bolivian
> revolutionary process, and they are the real conditions for Morales'
> victory.  You can say that *they* are concrete manifestations of the
> conflict between imperialism and the Third World, and you'd be right. 
> 
[...]
> 
> The uncritical pro-Morales camp here wants to transubstantiate the
> Bolivian struggle from something real into an airy "anti-imperialism"
> that is embodied in the figure of Morales.

This is economicist to the marrow!

The problem of Bolivians does not lie in whether they are charged 
abusively by water companies or gas companies.

The problem of Bolivians is that _even if they were not abused by 
these companies_ they would still be a dependent country.

Saying this is not to offer Morales an alibi on whatever he will do.

It is simply to state a basic truth.

If you want to reduce the Bolivian people's struggle to economicist 
upheavals, that's good for you.  If you want to boost a socialist 
revolution in Latin America, start by informing the imperialist oil 
companies that you will take command of the prices to be charged for 
Bolivian oil and gas exports.  What the imperialists do NOT want is 
(a) to relinquish their grip on this issue, and (b) to have the gas 
forced into Bolivia for household consumption (one of the richest 
countries in gas has 90% of its population yearning for something 
that takes them out of wood-based fuel) and the Bolivian 
industrialization of iron.

Bolivia is the key to the geopolitics of South America.  If you don't 
see this, then you are missing 7/8s of the scenario.

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[No necesariamente es su autor]
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"La patria tiene que ser la dignidad arriba y el regocijo abajo".
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