[Marxism] Answers to RR

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 27, Issue 21"
Enviado por:marxism-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Con fecha:7 Jan 2006, a las 12:00

> So now we ask Nestor:  1) what, who, what class forms the basis for
> Morales' team?  2) is such a development even possible without either
> a) a socialist, working class based revolution .. or b) increased
> imperial penetration which requires, besides subjugation of the
> workers, massive foreign investement at the very time when capitalists
> have reduced dramatically overall capital investment?
> 

(1) a complex of different classes and groups, led essentially by the 
peasants and urban-residing Indians or Mestizos.  There are even 
parts of the local bourgeoisies (in the most "classical" sense of the 
word) behind him.  And, please never forget this when talking about 
an LA development in the 21st century, Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan 
revolution.

(2) (a) no  (b) no:  imperialism wants Bolivia to remain as the Congo 
of South America (source of raw materials for use abroad, either in 
California -by way of Argentina and Chile-, in Argentina or in 
Brazil), and they have very good reasons to do so:  the 
industrialization of Bolivia is the main piece in the reorganization 
of South America on new, strong, bases.  This, Chávez understands 
very well.  And, er, so do I;  I am preparing a book on the 
geopolitics of the industrialization of South America which explains 
why is it that Bolivia is such a bone of contention (same can be 
said, due to different reasons, of Colombia)..

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 27, Issue 21"
Enviado por:marxism-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Con fecha:7 Jan 2006, a las 12:00

> Interesting fact.  Source please.

Jorge Abelardo Ramos in "Historia de la Nación Latinoamericana"  
Quoting Bolivian source.  Not handy now.  Will seek.

But, dear RR man, if you come to think of it, it's just a matter of 
common sense.

Same things happened in Argentina after 1945.  Source here are the 
medical records of the Army, and the % of rejection due to "low 
Pinet" indexes, etc.  In Argentina, military service was a civil duty 
that almost no male citizen of 20 (later on, 18) could dodge easily.  
So that these records provide a very good graph of the issue.  Not 
exactly malnutrition but TBC was the issue here.  TBC, however, is 
linked to malnutrition, of course.

In fact, one of the reasons behind Arg military nationalism during 
the 30s and 40s was the _technical_ verification of such facts.  In 
those years, a saying passed on from military language to everyday 
language:  "no da el piné", that is "does not meet the Pinet index", 
meaning "this should be rejected".

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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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