Re: [Marxism] Hopelessly but stubbornly

["rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hopelessly and stubbornly, Nestor sticks to this notion of "rogueish,"
and I guess progressive bourgeoisie.  Hopelessly and stubbornly, Nestor
turns permanent revolution on its head in order to gain a toehold for
his notion of rogueish, progressive bourgeoisie.

But what constitutes rogueishness, progressiveness?  It's not sentiment,
emotion, patriotic loyalty, nice statements about Fidel, Hugo, Evo,
Lula, or Nestor.  It's economic position:  it's class function:  it's
relationship to property....

Look at the origins of this "national" "rogueish" "anti-imperial"
progressive bourgeooisie in the countries of Bolivia, Ecuador,
Venezuela, Peru... better yet look at the origins of the bourgeoisie,
without  the modifiers, and what do you see-- a class generated in its
very INCAPACITY to introduce, expand, maintain a system of property and
labor strong enough to overcome the legacy of impressed labor; a class
incapable, on its own, of generating reciprocating  relations between
agriculture and industry, so that the overall development of the
domestic market supports further release of labor from rural subsistence
and provides for its reproduction in urban areas-- and follow the chain
all the way through history, and you get divisions in this class based
on juxtaposition and proximity to commerce vs. proximity to landed
property... you get in short, the mini-version of advanced,
international,  capitalism itself.

Look further at the divisions in this class and you see not so much a
unity or division in the face of advanced capitalist penetration, but a
unity and competition in the expropriation of the surplus value of the
laboring population, with each wing being more or less brutal in that
exploitation depending on market conditions-- on what the world market,
what the domestic reflection of that world market, requires.

And as such, as such a class as that "national"-- but linked directly to
the international-- bourgeoisie, the advancement of its "national"
interest is directly, and inevitably opposed to the interests of those
forced to live, hustle, work, suffer under either the programs of
rogueish or non-rogueish bourgeoisie.

This is documented in the history of Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru--
which, from my privileged, white-skinned, non-academic, comfortable
position, I have been fortunate enough to study.

The penetrations of advanced capital are penetrations based on the
legacy, in Latin America, of Spanish (and Portuguese) colonialism; its
generation of a bourgeoisie complicit, dependent on the crumbs of
commerce spun off in administering, litigating, maintaining the
impressment of indigenous labor.

rr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: [Marxism] Hopelessly but stubbornly



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