RE: [Marxism] South African press on Evo Morales visit

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it would be dreadful.

When the Sandinistas disavowed the death penalty -- even though its use would 
have been emotionally satisfying in some ways against Somoza's butchers -- that 
was a progressive step, because it was in the context of them having taken 
power and proving they could hold it in a more humane way than previous 
revolutionaries had the luxury of doing. (although if they'd known how 
genocidal the contra war was going to be maybe tactically an argument could 
have been made for putting them up against the wall right at the start).

The truth and reconciliation commission was about making nicey-nicey with white 
capitalists who still held, and hold, power.

Let the workers, peasants, indigenous, women etc. of Bolivia take power and 
THEN we can talk about how to humanely put the capitalists to work at dignified 
working-class jobs while their riches go to the people.

-- "David McDonald" <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what if he intends to recommend a truth and reconciliation commission
to see into 500 years of indiginous subjugation of his people? Would that be
dreadful?



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