[PEN-L:11459] Re: Re: Capitalist development

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

> Here's Solidarity's statement. I'll let others decide whether this
> contradicts Marxist principles or not.

I think it's a stupid and shitty position and will haunt them in the
future. It's also a sad position because AAC is a pretty good
journal and Solidarity is in many ways a good group and I
hate to see it befoul itself.

But I would be a bit more chary than Lou in declaring whether
a decision "contradicts Marxist principle." I would rather say (at
least in this case) that it is a very bad/mistaken application of marxist
principle.

I do believe that any renewed left movement will make opposition to
all u.s. intervention abroad one of its unifying principles -- and in the
meantime it is certainly one of my principles. I wish it were Solidarity's
also.

Carrol