Re: M-I: Peruvian Maoism

["James Michael Craven" <CRAVJM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> In his series of postings on indigenism generally, Louis Proyect
> has rendered Marxism a service and there are many in his debt, who
> do not yet know his name.
>
> He has succeeded in connecting in intelligible,
> politically-meaningful ways some of the complex of issues which
> define the era: the dynamics of core-periphery relations in the
> phase of so-called 'globalism'. The dynamics of plunder by the
> imperial metropoles of the margins, and the consequent impact on
> ecosystems and biodiversity; the process of international class
> struggle in what is opening out into an era of People's War, and
> the tasks of the working class and its allies in that era: to form
> new kinds of strategic alliance and to develop shared
> understandings and analyses of the workings of late imperialism
> and of the tasks involved in its revolutionary overthrow.
>
> I am hopeful that this posting will launch real debate about the
> politics and strategies of the Peruvian Communisty Party, and the
> lessons to be learnt.
>
> Mark Jones
>
I certainly second these sentiments wholeheartedly and also with
respect to questions dealing with Indians of the Americas in general.

                                 Jim Craven

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