Re: [Marxism] "While we trade abstractions, people are dying?" (was, me bear-proof?)

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman writes:

<<For Patrick Bond, there can be nothing worse in
Zimbabwe than Mugabe just as their can be nothing
worse in South Africa than Mbeki.  Perhaps my
imagination is more vivid.  I can imagine things
getting a lot worse, and I think in Zimbabwe this
is the trend as I read the political lineup unless
some new force intervenes.>>

Fred's scepticism about the Zimbabwean "opposition"
is well placed. However, the point about the Mbekis
and Mugabes which Fred does not seem to understand,
is not that there are worse alternatives around, many
of whom have the support of the imperialist powers,
but that Mugabe and Mbeki are responsible for setting
in place political and social degeneration that lays 
the ground for the ultimate victory of the "worse"
alternatives which Fred ao rightly fears. In the long 
term, the neoliberalism with a black face that the
Mbeki and Mugabe have pursued can only lead to
further social and political disasters for the 
African peoples.                                

<<What is needed is to learn from Latin America,
from Chavez and Morales et al.>>

Hope springs eternal...

<<Mandela's course in the struggle against apartheid 
has a lot of positive lessons in my opinion...>>

Yeah, right... and if one believes The Guardian (Britain),
Mandela is almost a saint.

<<Well, after all, anything is better than Mugabe!>>

I do find myself wondering why Mugabe deserves to
be singled out for special attention by Patrick Bond
and others.

Lajany Otum




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