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On 8/13/15 11:01 AM, Celeste Murillo via Marxism wrote:
Full article:
http://www.leftvoice.org/Two-Different-Paths-Syriza-and-Podemos-or-the-FIT
From this article:
>-Maybe the lack of any kind of reference to the FIT isn’t due to a
lack of knowing that they exist but because it puts to question the
hypothesis that Morena party is the only “natural” political
representation of the “social movements” and that no other path is
possible.<-
There is also the possibility that the Morena party in Mexico is
considered far more important than the Trotskyist-led FIT in Argentina.
Morena is led by Andres Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City
who is mentioned in 296 different articles in the NY Times while the FIT
and the PTS are mentioned zero times. I understand that you are a legend
in your own minds but for people in Mexico the FIT has very little
relevance. When I was in Mexico City a couple of years ago I had long
conversations with people who have a long history in workers struggles
there and who were Morena supporters. If your benchmark is socialist
ideology, then the FIT is certainly more important than Morena, which is
focused mainly on breaking the stranglehold of the two-party system in
Mexico. If I was in Mexico, I'd certainly be a member of Morena. Whether
or not it is the revolutionary party that is needed in the final
analysis is secondary to the question facing Mexicans today, namely how
to create a pole of attraction for the workers and peasants challenging
corruption, state repression and economic misery. When a Trotskyist-led
electoral formation in Argentina reaches a critical mass sufficient to
generate attention in the NY Times, I'll take a second look but
meanwhile I see in the article above that the two main parties in the
FIT--the PST and the PO--are already beginning to fragment. Typical of
Argentine far-left politics, I am sad to say.
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