[A-List] Jorge Enea Spilimbergo died today

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Today at 6:20 AM Buenos Aires time, has passed away Jorge Enea 
Spilimbergo, one of the founders of the Izquierda Nacional, 
incorruptible socialist, poet, journalist, writer, politician and a 
lifelong militant.

He loomed much higher than any of us, and belonged to that Brechtian 
category of the "indispensable" who struggled until the last breath:  
his last words, as recorded by his son, were "take me out of this 
hospital, I want to live, there is too much work ahead".

It is a great loss to revolutionary thought and political action in 
Latin America.  I only hope that those -young and not so young- who 
now follow him on the sharp path towards revolution and socialism 
will be up to our duty.

His political writings will remain a beacon for anyone who wants to 
understand Latin America, the semicolonial world, and Argentina in 
particular.  His contributions on the national question and the inner 
fabric of the imperialist policies, gathered in his "The national 
question in Marx" will remain a classic, and will be as useful to 
revolutionaries in the Third World as in the First.  

A true heir to the best traditions of socialist thought and action, 
the working class has lost today one of the last heirs of that great 
current of ideas that sparked to life in Russia, 1917, expanded by 
Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Ze Dong, Ernesto Guevara Lynch and 
Ho Chi Minh.  An Argentinean to the root of his heart, his 
contribution will stand among the most original pieces of political 
work ever written on behalf of the overthrow of class societies and 
the passage from the realm of necessity to the realm of liberty.  

Every and each line of his classical prose drips socialist will and a 
vast understanding of the times he had the opportunity to live 
through.  His influence will certainly help in the great harvest we 
are all called to reap, when the great days come.  Few people worked 
as hard as him to make them nearer.

His political life will remain an example for those who want to learn 
how to become a true fighter for the interests of the working class, 
that is of humankind.

Just as it happens with every true revolutionary in Argentina, he was 
turned into a non-person by the oligarchic structures of prestige, 
difussion and acknowledgement, either from the Left or from the 
Right, and even from many Peronists who hated his principled 
criticisms of the national bourgeois limits of that great movement.  
He took this with the good humor of the true fighter, recalling those 
lines on the Quixote:  "Dogs bark, Sancho, then we are riding".  And 
he always rode on the right direction.

We shall mourn him at Av. Almirante Brown 1168, La Boca, Buenos 
Aires.  Faxes can be sent to the following number in Buenos Aires: 
[54] [11] 4301-0396 where 54 is country code for Argentina, 11 is 
area code for Buenos Aires.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro at fibertel.com.ar

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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