Re: Re: reform and rev

[Alan Cibils <abcibils@xxxxxxxxx>]

At  1/21/2002, Rakesh wrote:

> The reason why so many Marxists have difficulty in understanding the
> progressive thrust of many third world revolutions has been that they only
> study Marx, and do not beyond him. Two people who have tried to go beyond
> Marx here are Guglielmo Carchedi and  Enrique Dussel from whose latest
> book (edited by the way by Fred Moseley) I draw in the above.

I fully agree with the need for progressives to go beyond the study of
Marx. Personally, I find the Spanish Revolution to be the most inspiring of
the radical revolutions of the 20th century. With all their mistakes and
shortcomings, I find that the Spanish anarchists showed what a really
progressive, radically democratic, socialist society could look like. They
too were inspired by the Paris Commune. It never ceases to amaze me how
little the traditional left (Marxist in all its flavours) knows about this
revolution. (Perhaps it shouldn't amaze me, since the Spanish Revolutiont
was snuffed out by, among others, the Stalinists. Also, Lenin and Trotsky
actively persecuted anarchists and others to the left of the bolsheviks.)
However, it is interesting and refreshing that many of those who are on the
front lines of the antiglobalization struggles today are well aware of this
history and take a far more eclectic approach to revolution and social
change, not limiting themselves to one particular left ideology.

Alan


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