Re: Query from a Venezuelan

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Lee:
> Tell that to Intel, whose Malaysian plant made the chip I'm using to write
> this email  http://www.intel.com/jobs/malaysia/sites/ In fact, Malaysian
> industrialisation has more to do with direct and indirect export subsidies
> paid to foreign and locally owned firms alike. Not a good example for your
> case.

I don't think I get your point. Everything is relative. Malaysia is
relatively protectionist, as opposed to Argentina, for example.

> State capitalism and state socialism, from the perspective of workers was
> what I was talking about.

I think that most workers would understand if they were living in a country
where a job was guaranteed and where it isn't.

> Since it's fundamental to Marx's idea of communist society, perhaps you
> should start thinking about it.

I am reaching the point where after having read John Holloway, Hardt-Negri
and other ivory-tower "communists" that I am ready to disavow the word
communist. In a way, it has become a symbol of disengagement from political
reality and the class struggle. Over on the aut-op-sys mailing list, which
is jam packed with the most communistic communists you can shake a stick
at, there's never the slightest interest show in what's happening on the
ground in Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba or any other messy place contending with
imperialist oppression.

> Who wouldn't? The question is: what is the best
> development/industrialisation strategy?

Cuba, Cuba, Cuba, Cuba and Cuba.


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