Re: [Marxism] Le Monde reports on LCR/NPA

[Nestor Gorojovsky <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lueko Willms escribió:
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:40:18 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
> 
>> The Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) will soon be no more.  On 
>> Thursday, 5 February, its activists will vote for its self-dissolution 
>> to create the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA).  Some seven hundred 
>> delegates are expected at a four-day conference, 5-8 February, in la 
>> Plaine-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), to launch the new party of 
>> Olivier Besancenot. 

[...]

> 
>   Sounds all quite good. But I am tempted to ask the comrades the
> question which Che Guevara posed to the Colombian PC people he visited in
> their office on his pre-Cuban tours thru Latin America: "How do you think
> to take power?". 

Ernesto Guevara was clearly aware of the role played by the CParties in 
Latin America by those years. Though he had been no Peronist himself, he 
had been very sympathetic to Peronist achievements (indeed, and this is 
something not even Cubans, who rarely understand Peronism, use to 
comment in public- while in Guatemala he was working for a news agency 
of Peronist Argentina -or at least getting a salary from such agency).

And he had witnessed the pathetic if not counter-revolutionary role of 
the Argentinean PC, who were at the first line in the generalized 
struggle of all of our "Left" against Peronism.

When the Punta del Este conference, he is famous for having greeted the 
Argentinean CP people who had gone to see him there with a "Hello, so 
that now what is the next revolution you will try to destroy?"

> 
>   Taking power and the Cuban revolution are the two big invisible
> elephants nobody dares to talk about in the room of this "New
> Anticapitalist Party". 
> 
>   It is good to be against capitalism, but what is the party for? 
> 
>   Unfortunately I can't be there to get a feeling of the party
> members ... no 
> money for the train. 

No money, no taking power...

:-)

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