[Marxism] James Petras on Evo

["Juan Carlos" <juancarloscruz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Petras on Evo:


At best, Evo will promote some marginal increases in property and royalty
taxes, and perhaps increase some social spending on welfare services (but
always limited by a tight fiscal budget). Political power will be shared
between the new upwardly mobile petit bourgeois of the MAS office holders
and the old economic oligarchs. No doubt diplomatic relations will greatly
improve with Cuba and Venezuela. Relations with the World Bank and the IMF
will remain unchanged ­ unless the Cuban-American mafia in Washington push
their extremist agenda. While any aggression is possible with the
fascist-thinking policy makers in command in Washington, it is also
possible, given Morales' de facto liberal policies, that the State
Department may opt for pressuring Evo to move further to the right and to
make further concessions to big business and coca cultivation reduction.
Unfortunately, the Left will continue to respond to symbols, mythical
histories, political rhetoric and gestures and not to programmatic
substance, historical experiences and concrete socio-economic policies.

-James Petras, a former Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, New
York, owns a 50 year membership in the class struggle, is an adviser to the
landless and jobless in Brazil and Argentina and is co-author of
Globalization Unmasked (Zed). His new book with Henry Veltmeyer, Social
Movements and the State: Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina. He can be
reached at: jpetras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This article was first published by
CounterPunch.org


Juan Carlos Cruz

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