[Marxism] Warmest thanks for lesson received too late

[Nestor Gorojovsky <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Cod escribió:
> OK maybe you think those guys in Argentina were just
> petty crazed yahooes like Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver.  No, they
> were agents of the ruling class carrying a campaign of kidnapping and
> murder designed to "liquidate" "subversion" and the "political Left"
> in which 30,000 wound up dead while over 20,000 anti-semitic attacks
> were carried out-in a country that had a sizable Nazi emigre
> population at the time actually.  Needless to say the institutions of
> ostensible political democracy were shuttered with the unions and the
> workers parties driven underground.  While the Nazi regalia may have
> been kept in the closet more in places like Chile, the essence of it
> remained.

Ah, thank you Tom Cod, this has been a revelation! Sincerely, I don´t 
know what the hell I have been doing when I thought I was trying to 
understand Argentinean politics and history these last 40 years.

Yes, _exactly 40 years_, because today´s my political birthday, 
something I used to be happy about and now, thanks to less than 12 lines 
by Tom Cod, has been demonstrated to be a hollow non-feat unworthy of 
any form of rejoice.

Allow me to become a little personal on such a momentous instant in my 
own life. The said delivery of political consciousness can be precisely 
dated ton May 30, 1969, 6:45 AM, that is, the day after the people of 
Córdoba rose up against the military dictatorship of those times and 
took control of the city for two complete days. My first shock was in 
the early morning, while taking breakfast before leaving to take the bus 
that took me to High School. This was the moment in the day when I read 
the newspaper, at a glance that up to that moment was usually cast on 
the Sports (soccer) pages.

That day, instead, my giddy, sleepy and shortsighted attention was 
captured by the picture and headlines of the newspaper. Perhaps such 
state of unreliably somniferous mindlessness could explain the stupid 
mistakes that ruined my political moves afterwards, those that Tom has 
so deftly reduced to worthless rubbish.

The headlines read "Córdoba en manos de la población", and the pictures 
and captions showed street fighting between heavily armed anti-mutiny 
police and a joint front of workers and students. And the latter were 
taking the place!!!

My life changed forever that cold, grey morning (BTW: just like today´s, 
I mean today´s morning is cold and grey, not that my life is changing 
forever).

It looks like I have wasted that time in the most "tsk,tskable" way.

If I only had had Mr. Cod´s wisdom available just then...

Wisdom has come too late for me to profit from it in any reasonable way. 
In order to do so, I should start anew, and first of all endeavour to 
forget all that I learnt during 40 years of a crassly mistaken, blind 
and misguided process of political struggle. All I can say on my behalf 
is that I have been earnest in the effort, but of course I reckon that 
earnestness in error may be worse than levity in truth. In the process, 
or maybe after it comes to  succesful end, I will have to learn all the 
intelligence and wise understanding of the concrete situation in 
Argentina that anyone without blinkers can fathom in the deep piece by 
Tom Cod, above.

This is unfeasible. Such a program would would take either 40 years full 
time or 80 years part-time at least. My reasonable life expectancy (not 
to speak of the conditions of such life) is of 30, 35 years.

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