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Here are my real wishes for Joaquin's good health and recovery. And yes, meeting in person would be great My point is just what I said it was-- how does this national revolution deal with corporate private property in its various international manifestations? I agree, the possibility for that Latin American unity is the possibility for the conquering of power by the workers, by the poor of cities and countryside, by the landless, the laborers, and those tied to the land by below-subsistence conditions enforced by the private landed property of the corporations. I don't, however, agree that the only road open for the workers is that of Bolivar and Che, Bolivar or Che. Both failed in their objectives. Bolivar's dreams of Gran Colombia collapsed in the face of the realities of private property. Che's focoism didn't stand a chance. As Joaquin correctly points out, I do think the issue is capitalism, capitalism that is first and foremost the aggrandizement of labor-power; capitalism which overlays that aggrandizement on pre-existing relations of race and gender, but having done so, subsumes those conflicts, makes them "intelligible" "resolvable" in, and only in, the overthrow of its, capitalism's condition of reproduction, that aggrandizement of labor power, which does NOT mean we ignore, can ignore, can accomplish that overthrow without addressing those relatoins of race and gender. We cannot. Short version-- the main enemy is always the local, national enemy, because that enemy is the way the entire international, global, system sustains, maintains itself. If this is not the capitalism of the mid 19th century as Marx analyzed it, it is even less the imperialism of the late 19th century as Lenin analyzed it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joaquín Bustelo" <jbust...@bellsouth.net> To: <sartes...@earthlink.net> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
