Re: FW: [Arg_Solid] Re: Communism not reform

2002-01-26 Thread Alan Cibils
It seems to me that missing from Karl's analysis is a pretty basic ingredient of any revolutionary thinking: class analysis. All this rhetoric about workers and communism is fine, but it seems to quite divorced from Argentine reality. For example, unemployment is currently 20%, underemploymen

FW: [Arg_Solid] Re: Communism not reform

2002-01-26 Thread michael pugliese
There are matters I don't agree with on left strategy/history with my Trotskyist friend Adam here (he comes out of the Global Class War WWP tradition and hey, how does the joke go? Three leftists in a room, 5 opinions!?) but, I think he gets the emphasis right. Down with abstract, auto-marxese

Re: Communism not reform

2002-01-26 Thread miyachi
on 1/26/02 08:40 PM, Karl Carlile at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reuters (with additional material by AP and AFP). 25 and 26 January > 2002. Thousands of Argentines Protest Over Cash Crisis. > > BUENOS AIRES - Tens of thousands of Argentines, from middle class > businessmen to the unemployed, too

Communism not reform

2002-01-26 Thread Karl Carlile
Reuters (with additional material by AP and AFP). 25 and 26 January 2002. Thousands of Argentines Protest Over Cash Crisis. BUENOS AIRES - Tens of thousands of Argentines, from middle class businessmen to the unemployed, took to streets on Friday to bang pots and pans in the biggest protest yet a