Re: [Marxism] Betancourt's halo [SIC] under spotlight

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists <ok.president+nbsy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:43 AM,  <Jscotlive@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Attempting to explain the lack of advance or success of the FARC as a
> consequence of tactics is to miss the point that they are acting in a 
> position  of
> weakness not strength. Material conditions of struggle determine actions, not
> the other way around.

This is vulgar, reductive materialism. Material conditions do
constrain the field of choices, but they are never "deterministic" in
the sense you think they are, as if humans were zombies without any
agency, dancing to the puppet strings pulled by "material forces".

Using your logic, every poor strategic choice that leftists make,
could be retrospectively explained away as somehow inevitable and
materially "determined". This is verily the "materialism of fools".

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