Re: [Marxism] Water, gas and imperialism

["Wayne S. Rossi" <felianan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor writes:

 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.
_____________________________________________________

 Pointing out class struggles is **economist**?  That's a seriously warped 
mischaracterization of everything I've been discussing here.  Economism is the 
broken notion that the working class doesn't have to take political power, that 
a revolutionary party is unnecessary.  This is in fact the opposite of what I 
think, though I haven't elaborated on it; I do think that without a leadership 
that is class conscious and capable of the tasks of a socialist revolution that 
the uprisings thus far will come to nothing.

 You seem to, along with Joaquin, go along with an idea that the national 
questions can be solved without provoking class conflict and causing a 
resolution one way or another.  This is deeply mistaken.  The national and 
anti-imperialist struggles are inextricably connected with the class struggle, 
and have brought it to the fore already.  How Marxists can think it is not 
going to force a resolution of the real class questions in Bolivia is beyond 
me, but there is widespread denial of the idea on this list.

 -Wayne




________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text before replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism