Re: Feedback from Leo Panitch, plus my reply

[Sasha Lilley <sashalilley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I understand that people have had technical
difficulties in listening to the May 28th debate on
imperialism between Leo Panitch and John Bellamy
Foster on our program Living Room (found at
www.livingroomradio.org).  The show has been
re-encoded and should no longer cut out.

Given that Leo Panitch's views are the subject of
debate on this list, I also suggest that people listen
to the program on globalization from last November
which aired on Living Room on June 2nd, in which he
lays out his ideas on how imperialism relates to the
global expansion of capital.  In both discussions, he
states fairly clearly that he believes capitalism
should be replaced -- and not just in the center of
empire but in the social democratic countries as well.

Sasha Lilley
Producer, KPFA Radio's Living Room
510/848-6767 ext 209
slilley@xxxxxxxx
www.livingroomradio.org

> Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Justin Schwartz:
> >I don't even know what these labels mean any more.
> Do you mean that he's
> >not really opposed to capitalism, he just wants a
> nicer version if it,
> >while you are realy really opposed to it, but not
> in the bad
> >marxist-Leninist way? This sort of sterile chitchat
> is part of why I don't
> >thing it's useful to use the old labels. The glue
> is worn off and they
> >won't stick; they don't tell us anything useful.
> Leo will certainly tell
> >you that he is utterly opposed to capitalism and
> considers himself to be a
> >pretty classical Marxist (whatever that means). I
> think that it is more
> >useful and explanatory to talk about concrete views
> and arguments than to
> >try to find the right magic words. jks
>
> I think the fact that SR has never had a single
> article about Cuba in the
> thirteen years that I have been reading it, plus I
> suspect the preceding 26
> years indicates that they are interested in the idea
> of socialism, but not
> particularly in the living struggles of people to
> construct just such a
> system. Nor did they take any particular interest in
> the Sandinista
> revolution, or the Central American revolution in
> general which was one of
> the most significant challenges to capitalism in the
> past 20 years or so.
> Except for a couple of articles by Carlos Vilas who
> tends to useful but
> ultimately bloodless analytics of the region, one
> could not learn much
> about struggles that had more to do with socialism
> than a ton of other
> articles about socialism in general. Anyhow, that's
> my opinion.
>
>
>
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