Re: [Marxism] Venezuelan revolution at the crossroads

["NÃstor Gorojovsky" <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

In fact, class struggle between bourgeois and working class in
L.America is waged around who will best confront the allied efforts of
domestic oligarchies and imperialism (that is, imperialist
bourgeoisies) to thwart and put an end to -domestic bourgeois
developments in Latin America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We Marxists "know" that L.American bourgeoisies will not be up to
their task. But it is "we", not the masses, who know that. It wonÂt be
through bombastic and in the end counter-revolutionary declarations
like those by A. Woods that Permanent Revolution will fall from its
Heavenly Shibboleth-like seat to become an active reality in L.
America.

L American Marxists have a very long road ahead, and adoption of
"class consciousness" by our working classes (as if anti-imperialist
class consciousness was not an essential step into the formation of an
independent working class consciousness, BTW!) will be the result of
our deep involvement in the concrete struggles of our exploited
classes. These struggles canÂt and mustnÂt follow ANY kind of
London-drafted blueprints, in the same way that it would be folly for
any British Marxist to attempt to seriously incide in the political
struggle of the British working class with, say, Zimbabwean
blueprints.

2008/1/11, Darrel Furlotte <darrel.furlotte@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > http://www.marxist.com/venezuelan-revolution-at-crossroads.htm
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> Most of the analysis here is sound, but the conclusion is pretty much
> formulaic utopian. I wish it were true, but "Given the enormous strength of
> the working class, and the impasse of capitalism everywhere, the bourgeois
> regimes in Latin America would fall rapidly, creating the basis for the
> Socialist Federation of Latin America and, finally world socialism." doesn't
> seem real. The "enormous" strength of the working class comes from its
> consciousness of itself as a class for itself.  I don't see a lot of that in
> Venezuela, Latin America, or anywhere else in the world -- especially in the
> imperialist countries.  As for the "impasse of capitalism everywhere";
> capitalism is expanding in Brazil, Russia, China, India. etc. And no force
> of any consequence is challenging Capital or capitalism in any of the
> "advanced" capitalist countries.
>
> As far as I can tell, Woods describes the main problems in the Bolivarian
> revolution accurately and points to some steps that might resolve some of
> the contradictions, but can't resist ratcheting it up for the final
> showdown!
>
> Darrel
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