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The contradiction that faces the ³moderate left² in Latin America is a conflict between law and justice because the laws were written to protect landed property. The new governments are obliged to enforce the law ( or replace it with a with new constitutions).It took a thousand years since the Magna Carta to construct bourgeois law so that it works fairly well to keep power in the hands of the owning classes.Now traditional indigenous decision making, Zapatista consensus building, the Cuban constitution, the new constitutions in the ALBA countries are all part of the process of creating the new rule of law for the new system of justice. So do not criticize the ways in which the new governments deviate from bourgeois law but rather their difficulties in creating a new legal system based on justice. On 11/9/14, 6:45 PM, "Stuart Munckton via Marxism" <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: >******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** >#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. >#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. >***************************************************************** > >"Social movements face the big challenge of continuing the fight for >structural reforms in Brazil. We have to continue the struggle for land, >continue pushing for a referendum for a constituent assembly and demand >that the government democratise the media." > >https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57751 > >-- >³Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity¹s >original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, >through disobedience and through rebellion.² ‹ Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man >Under Socialism > >³The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of >dummy?² ‹ Jarvis Cocker >_________________________________________________________ >Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm >Set your options at: >http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/humaneco%40hsph.harvard.edu _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
