[Marxism] Bolivia (was something else with too many exclamation points)

[rrubinelli <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe Marvin if posing the wrong question:  The issue is not "is the demand 
for popular
assemblies on the agenda in Bolivia?"  The issues, rather, are:  1. is Bolivia 
in a period of revolutionary
struggle?  2. Are there embryonic organs of workers/poor rule?  3. Are such 
structures necessary?
4. Will such organs need to expand, develop, strengthen and becomes centers of, 
temporarily, dual power?
5. Is there an alternative to such class division, class rule that resolves the 
conflicts of Bolivian
society?

I think the answers are yes, yes, yes, yes, and no.  From that point then the 
next steps are tactical to
fulfull the strategy inherent in the answer to question 4, and complete the 
revolutionary program required
by the answer to question 5.

Initial tactics include the demand for the constituent assembly, the real 
constituent assembly, and
nationalization of the petroleum industries productive assets, not just 
reserves, but extractive
and transport pipeline structures.

Let me pose a question to the supporters of the "national salvation" program:  
Should Marxists organ-
izations,  enter the Morales government?  Should Marxists except portfolios in 
such a government for
the implementation and administration of the MAS programs?

rr

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