[Marxism] Re: More on Bolivia's COB

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Joaquin wrote:

Yes, I know, Evo's economic policies have been unclear,  
incomplete,incoherent, inconsistent, and unsustainable...

Looks like he's been channeling Marx:

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by  
degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all  
instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the  
proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total  
productive forces as rapidly as possible.

"Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means  
of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions  
of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which  
appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the  
course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further  
inroads upon the old
social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely  
revolutionising the "mode of production."

If you skipped over the quote: don't. And read the second paragraph  
twice. And remember, that relatively speaking, the revolutionary  
process in Bolivia is starting from a much lower level than anything  
Marx and Engels might have
imagined in writing those lines.

Thanks Joaquin, now THAT was educational. By the by, do you have a  
reference for that quotation?

Greg




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