> On May 18, 2026, at 04:58, RKOB via groups.io <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As an internationalist, I have an internationalist position. Such a position > is right or wrong irrespective of in which country one lives. Of course, > depending on which country one lives, one can put more emphasis on this or > that aspect of the internationalist position. > "Down with Castro-Chavista regimes" is a demand, Michael. Who is the target of that demand? "Down with the Castro regime" is very different when raised in the US or W Europe than among Cuban working people. The US government is demanding the same thing at this moment. Cuba is acquiring drones and preparing to resist another US invasion. This is not the time to re-purpose Trump's demand to overthrow the regime. This is what appears in your agitprop. And you want to replace the regime with what? Do you want to replace the regime with something that exists today or something you imagine should exist?
> I also thought that the Marxmail list is an international one and not an > American list. The RCIT statement for the Paris Conference - which was the > starting point of the whole debate - was an international statement for an > international conference which took place last weekend in Paris. So it was > not specifically related to the U.S. > In my previous post, I gave an example of how a healthy revolutionary-political organization balances critique of a regime with its defense against imperialism. > In short, please do not view this or that position from an American but from > an internationalist point of view. > The fact is, Michael, we can only effectively make political demands from our own ruling classes. But if you admire Trotsky, take a look at The Militant archive from the years when Trotsky's influence was the most direct and immediate, https://themilitant.com/Militant_Back_Issues/1940_1949/1940_1949.html. At the start of WW II, when the USSR was under attack from Nazi Germany, the focus was not overthrowing Stalin; the focus was on defending the gains of the revolution: "The Finnish events prove again that Stalin is incapable of defending the Soviet Union. If Stal-in is not overthrown by the Russian workers, aided by the workers of the entire world, he will drag down with him into oblivion what remains of the conquests of the October Revolution" (https://themilitant.com/1940/0401/SA0401.pdf). Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41763): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41763 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119270444/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
