Re: [Marxism] ISO's conference.

[Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sam B <sam.b.ann.arbor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on the importance of the
Soviet question:
>
> When they [revolutions] happen, the West has to decide how to orient 
> themselves to
> those revolutions, what position to take, etc.
>
> Your positions on the SU's trajectory are going to color what position
> you take on what's now happening in Nepal, for example. (For instance,
> one way to look at Nepal is that 2006 was Nepal's 1905, and 2009
> was/is Nepal's 1917...)
>

This makes no sense to me.  People in the west need to take one
position: resistance to the imperialist drive to act against these
revolutions.  We don't have to agree with what's happening somewhere
else to do this.  We don't even have to know that much about what's
happening there.

We oppose western intervention into Nepal, and it doesn't matter a
damn what happened in Russia 92 years ago.  We oppose western
intervention there whether Nepal is experiencing a 1917, a 1905 or a
4:30 in the afternoon.

ML

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