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[reply bottom posted/inline] on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:26:57 +0100 (MEZ), Lüko Willms wrote: > ==================================================================== == R > ule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==================================================================== == > > > Louis Proyect (l...@panix.com) wrote on 2011-03-13 at 16:18:50 in > about Re: [Marxism] Fidel: "The two earthquakes": >> >> >> On 3/13/11 4:10 PM, Lüko Willms wrote: >>> Nor do I doubt the intentions of the United States and NATO to >>> intervene militarily in Libya and abort the revolutionary wave >>> shaking the Arab world. >>> > >> Implicitly excepting the one taking place in Libya. >> > You do not think that King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia and all the other > absolute monarchs are the greatest friends of the ongoing Arab > revolution because they have called on the USA to militarily attack > the sister nation Libya, removing Qadhafi (who has so often trampled > them on the nose), and have invaded Bahrein in order to support the > revolution there? > > I still think that cheerleading the revolt in Libya from the > sidelines is "vanity under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 4:4) while the > important task is to fight against the imperialist and other foreign > interventions into the struggle, in order to secure the breathing > space for the Libyan people to sort out their affairs themselves. > > Fidel Castro's "reflections" help a lot to lead this effort. He is > still the most important revolutionary leader of our lifetime. What on earth is revolutionary about the 'official communist' regime in Cuba? Where is its democracy? This kind of hero worship of leaders is foul. Wake up: only a revolution carried out by the overhwelming majority is going to help in any way advance to communism. And reactionary 'socialism in one country' doesn't cut it; never did, never will. The idea that some kind of revolution from above rather than from below is going to advance humanity is the worst kind of corruption of Marxism. Without democratic norms, including within Marxist parties, and debating openly in front of the working class we shall have more abortions that turn into their opposite, destroying revolution. Does no-one remember how the Russian Revolution failed? It ate its children. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 15/03/2011 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
