Re: [Marxism] Role of Socialists (was The Chinese occupationofHaiti)

["Pance Stojkovski" <pance@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paula wrote:
> Sorry, Pance, but I disagree. Canada is 
> imperialist, as is Russia, as are the Europeans.

I don't think the disagreement is in identifying Canada as imperialist.
Anyone who reads newspapers can come to the same conclusion.

But it seems there's a difference of opinion among the radical left on how
to combat the imperial powers. There are (at least) two major camps in the
radical left: one camp says US imperialism is the main enemy. Just one fact
alone stands out - the military budget of the U.S. is more than the rest of
the world's military budgets combined! Alliances with progressive elements
including segments of the national bourgeoisie are an important tactic for
combating U.S. aggression. These are only temporary alliances - our ultimate
goal of socialism is never subsumed by this alliance.

The other camp says imperialism is equally bad whether it's US imperialism
or "our own" national imperialism. A pox on all their imperial houses. No
alliances. Forward to socialist revolution.

Beside the radical left - there's also the "soft" (or non-Marxist) left.

This difference is quite evident in every left activity in my neighbourhood,
my workplace. We're divided.

That's why the subject of this thread is "Role of Socialists". I'm not a
theoretician - and I was hoping other comrades can weigh in to explain why
one or another tactic is better.

Pance.





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