Re: [Marxism] Bolivia (was something else with too many exclamation po ints)

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

One more comment on Marvin's piece. The chronology he uses reverses the events 
of the last few years. What happened in the last couple years was popular 
organizations mobilizing, uniting and almost seizing power, but being derailed 
by a succession of presidents and then the elections. Marvin portrays the 
situation today as one of Morales coming to power and only now are popular 
organizations confronted with the problem of how to relate to him, as if he 
were the sum total legacy of the past couple years of rebellion and 
insurrection, and the popular organizations were new to the scene. 

The difference is crucial, because the tactical difficulties now, which 
rubinelli gets into, revolve around how to RESUME the push for nationalization, 
justice for the indigenous, etc., with a president in office who is to some 
extent in favor of those. And therefore the question is how to test that "some 
extent" in a way that will facilitate the masses pushing Morales further and 
further while at the same time rebuilding the workers' and other councils.

-- rrubinelli <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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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