Re: [Marxism] BOLIVIA: As Tensions Skyrocket Where Do Marxists Stand?

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unlike Sartesian, who assumes that the past guarantees
the future, and that Evo Morales is Salvador Allende
for the 21st century, that's not the assumption which
Roger Burbach has, if you read Burbach attentively.

Defeat remains the more common of the outcomes in the
history of the socialist movement. But we ought not 
to assume that it is the only outcome. Sartesian has
no alternative which he proposes, no leadership in
the actual world of Bolivia today, no body of actual
human persons to whom he can point who is carrying 
out his war against Evo Morales, even in proxy form.

That is political irresponsibility, in my opinion.


Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
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SARTESIAN write:
I recommend Walter go back one notch on his email list and actually read his 
prior post-- Burbach on Allende and Morales. If Chile, Allende's popular 
unity govt., is the past he wants to repeat in the future, is the place his 
Marxism stands, then he is standing with both feet already in the grave, and 
just asking for the dirt to be shoveled in.


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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un ParaÃso bajo el bloqueo"
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