[Marxism] Re: French elections

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Helary wrote:

Where else in the industrialized world do we have a strong left party so
close to victory with a candidate that is of herself representing a totally
alternative courant with a real potential ? 

 

Well, let's see.  The election in Venezuela went pretty well.  Argentina is
under a president at least as left - not saying that much, of course - as
Royale.  Brazil's president is rather Royale-like.  Mexico's left candidate
ran pretty strong.

 

The left seems pretty strong in Cuba.

 

Then there is India.  Other industrialized countries  --- China, South
Korea, North Korea are in various political phases.

 

I am challenging here the use of "industrialized countries" to refer
exclusively to Anglo North America, Western Europe and Japan with the former
Soviet bloc in Europe in the question-mark category, since their industry is
supposedly useless and should be dismantled.

 

More useful to use the terms "imperialist," "semicolonial."  There are now
quite a few  substantially industrialized semicolonial countries, though
there social structures and overall levels are not that of the big of
imperialist powers.

 

Its really time for the myth that only the imperialist countries and a few
parts of the Soviet bloc are industrialized.  The industrialization of the
semicolonioal world has advanced quite a bit without solving their
fundamental social problems and weakness relative to imperialism. But their
industrialization is a real factor in world economics and politics.

 

Latest polls indicate that Royale and Sarkozy have pulled together and ahead
of the rest, and that  Sarkozy's lead over Royale is statistically
significant but certainly not insuperable.

Fred Feldman

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