[PEN-L:628] Re: Re: Re: Nature bites back

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

		C. Kruse,



	I should make the disticntion here between the actual fight of actual
people against oppressive laws and practices that are unjust by any standard
and the intellectual *flight* to this kind of movement away from the struggle
of the industrial proletariat among intellectuals.


	The Bolivian situation that you describe of people being excluded
from a political movement is clearly wrong-headed.  Racism in political
movements is intolerable.  At the same time it does no good for people to
abandon their political-economic principles.  If Indios and small
subsistence farmers are on the wrong side of economic history they have to
be warned.  They have to be supported but anti-dialectical convictions
they may have can't be coddled. What good will it do?  They will be run
over by the capitalist machine if they don't cross the road.  The era of
people subsisting off the land is over and it won't come back for
centuries at least.  You can't choose the past over the future.




	peace