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

[NÃstor Gorojovsky <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/3/1 LÃko Willms <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 04:08:02 EST, Jscotlive@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> This crap presupposes that I think the FARC are making mistakes. On the
>> contrary, I think their resistance to the Colombian oligarchs and their death
>> squads over the past 30 years has been nothing short of heroic.
>
>  Being heroic does not prevent making mistakes both in a tactical and a
> strategical sense.

Ask Ernesto Guevara, who was as heroic as pure, something not every
member of FARC can say in the same degree.

>
>> What I do think IS determined is that oppression breeds resistance.
>
>  Yeah, but defeat breeds demoralisation. There is no automatism (we
> discussed this in relation to this Irish splinter group some time ago) that
> repression results in _increased_ resistance, following the motto "let's
> provoke the ruling class to be as vicious they can get, and this will result 
> in
> the people rising up". That has never worked.
>

Ask the Colombian working class if TODAY (not yesterday, not
yesteryear, not some decades ago) they are repressed in the name of
the anti-FARC struggle, or not.  The FARC are more popular in the
"liberated" corners of the main cities in the West than they are in
the working class neighborhoods. And this includes the neighborhoods
of BogotÃ...




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NÃstor Gorojovsky
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