A footnote to my last comment: For those like myself who passed through the Trotskyist movement, Charlie’s certainty, with its hint of a welcome, that " the contradiction between Chinese and U.S. monopoly capitalism will become more antagonistic” reminds me of nothing so much as the old FI tendency headed by Juan Posadas. Posadas forecast that the deepemg antagonism between the US and USSR would lead to nuclear war - not something to welcomed, of course, but out of whose rubble would finally arise the global socialist commonwealth.
His benign view of the sharpening of contradictions between great powers in a nuclear age gained little support within the movement, and none outside of it where the more politically conscious among the masses turned instead to building peace movements of the kind dismissed by Charlie as “preaching accomodation” rather than “revolution as the only way out”. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29382): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29382 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104830403/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
