Re: Tom Kruse's world: was [the mita]

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

> Yes, Yoshie, while it is important to link struggle with history, it is
> also important to link history with struggle.  Much of the discussion,
> however, seems disconnected with people actually engaged in struggle.

The main reason why discussion on PEN-l has often no immediate
implication -- for better or worse -- for people in Bolivia (to take
just one example) is that struggles here & struggles there have no
explicit political link.  There was once such a political link.  The
Communist International, along with various fellow travellers & left
oppositions to it, was the link.  That disappeared from the stage of
world history.  There is now no shared coherent political program to
link various local & national struggles, perhaps excepting the
opposition to the IMF & the WB.

Yoshie