There are matters I don't agree with on left strategy/history
with my Trotskyist friend Adam here (he comes out of the Global
Class War WWP tradition and hey, how does the joke go? Three
leftists in a room, 5 opinions!?) but, I think he gets the emphasis
right. Down with abstract, auto-marxeseagit-prop.
Michael Pugliese
>--- Original Message ---
>From: "sf_adam.rm" <sf_adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Argentina_Solidarity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: 1/26/02 6:14:18 PM
>
>Your writing takes the tone of "more revolutionary than thou."
>
>Show us an example of how yelling into the faces of struggling
>workers in Argentina to fight today for communism when they
haven't
>even formed a workers militia will serve the revolutionary process.
>You would have revolutionaries acting like preachers, brow-beating
>and boring the masses to death with sloganeering, instead of
leading
>to action based on theory--actions which will embolden the workers
to
>fight for the establishment of workers state.
>
>Revolutionaries must take the consciousess of the workers into
>account. The workers are not ready to demand an end to wage
slavery
>or for the destruction of the bourgeois state and the imposition
of a
>workers state. They jobs with a minimum of $250 a month minimum
pay.
>They want an end to devaluation. And they are taking to the
streets
>with reformist illusions. They hate the IMF but don't recognize
>there is no patch for the capitalist crisis. The revolutionaries
>have to assist the masses to take the next steps, but let's
not put
>the cart before the horse. A correct program and tactics encourages
>the struggling masses to continue their fight, and not to stop
until
>the state is smashed.
>
>Adam
>
>
>
>
>--- In Argentina_Solidarity@xxxx, "Karl Carlile" <dagda@xxxx>
wrote:
>> Reuters (with additional material by AP and AFP). 25 and 26
January
>> 2002. Thousands of Argentines Protest Over Cash Crisis.
>>
>> BUENOS AIRES - Tens of thousands of Argentines, from middle
class
>> businessmen to the unemployed, took to streets on Friday to
bang
>pots
>> and pans in the biggest protest yet against a new government
>struggling
>> to end a massive financial crisis.
>>
>> Karl: The masses can go on strike as much as they like, bang
billie
>cans
>> or whatever. It is no substitute for class politics. While
the
>working
>> class remain tied to reformist philosophy their struggle
will
>> inevitably head towards defeat --as has repeatedly happened
in the
>past.
>> Where is there to go? Capitalism cannot deliver. Capitalism
in
>Argentina
>> cannot reform conditions in such a way as to improve living
>standards
>> and conditions for workers and sections of the middle class.
The
>only
>> solution is the abolition of capitalism and its replacement
with
>> communism. This is the line that communists must take concerning
the
>> mass popular mobilisation in Argentina. Otherwise the mobilisation
>will
>> merely mean sustained instability entailing, more pain and
>bloodshed for
>> workers or an extreme right wing crackdown. The only alternative
for
>> workers is communism.
>>
>> The petty bourgeois radicals that suggest otherwise are left
>> counter-revolutionaries whose bourgeois role it is to disarm
the
>working
>> class from the right.
>>
>> Regards
>> Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
>> Be free to join our communism mailing list
>> at http://homepage.eircom.net/~kampf/
>
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