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> > On 8/8/18 9:27 PM, DW via Marxism wrote: > > Leaving that aside is if it's applied to Nicaragua, this means...what > > exactly? Not seizing power? Limiting, even against the wishes of the > rural > > masses and urban workers further nationalizations? What would be the > point > > then of the FSLN coming to power if only to topple the hated > dictatorship? > > In fact, the self-limitations imposed by the FSLN worked out well, huh? > > Plus, Louis, you make it out to seem as if nothing else was going on the > > region...like El Salvador, Guatemala, etc. I am not arguing had, as A. > > Sandino suggested..."only the workers and peasants can go all the way" > > ...that the results wouldn't of been any different. Though we never would > > know had they, the FSLN, lead the masses to just that, that an even > deeper > > radicalization would not have shifted the entirety of Central America > > working masses to consider socialist solutions. Revolutions happen when > > it's least expected, afterall. > Maybe it’s not worth responding to, but I found myself scratching my head and wondering what David is talking about here. Yeah no joke there was stuff going on in the rest of Central America. The Guatemalan revolution was busy having its head handed to it on a silver platter and that would not have changed irregardless of Sandinista policy. The FMLN certainly did not need revolutionary encouragement from the Sandinistas as they were for the most part very interested in going down a Socialist path, but alas they could only fight the largest military power in the planet to a bloody standstill. Guess they had not read their Trotsky, otherwise they would have prevailed? Or what exactly? And speaking of the rest of Central America, let us not forget that Honduras and Costa Rica were contra staging grounds. Yeah the balance of forces was so in favor of revolutionary upheaval that a slight nod from a more revolutionary leadership in Managua would have certainly resulted in a massive social explosion and the incorporation of the entire isthmus into a revolutionary project. Greg > > > _________________________________________________________ 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
