On 11/3/06, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Doug wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>> M & E lived in an age when the Europeans were revolutionary. That's a
>> long time ago. :->
>
> So who's revolutionary now?
>
> Doug
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Good question.
My answer: Subjectively, many people. Objectively, very few - in the West
or elsewhere.
There have been many conscious revolutionaries in the past 150 years whose
purpose has been to establish a socialist society but whose time has been
spent fighting for reforms under capitalism.
By revolutionary, I don't mean "socialist revolutionary."
On 11/3/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I interviewed Tariq Ali the other week for my radio show, and finally
got to broadcast it last night; it'll be up on my web archive today.
Tariq speaks with Chavez fairly often, and says that Chavez regularly
says that we are not living in a revolutionary epoch, and all we can
accomplish now is a left social democratic set of reforms. "We cannot
leap" beyond history, he says - and Castro reportedly agrees. This is
what Chavez means when he talks about 21st century socialism.
A "left social democratic set of reforms" is revolutionary in Latin America!
--
Yoshie
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