[A-List] Sino-Soviet Split - 1st installment

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Respuesta a:"Re: [A-List] Sino-Soviet Split - 1st installment"
Enviado por:grok at resist.ca
Con fecha:30 Jan 2006, a las 12:07

> The socialist proletariat, in the
> >  absence of a capitalist class, mistook the bureaucratic
> >  management class as the target of class struggle and
> >  played into the hands of reactionaries. This eventually
> >  culminated in the Solidarity Movement that began in
> >  Poland, a broad anti-communist social movement that
> >  united the Catholic Church with the anti-communist left.
> 
> Another fundamentally correct analysis. 

I, for one, don't share grok's opinion.

If one looks at the privileged heirs of the demise of the 
transitional process one discovers that they're mainly the former 
bureaucrats.

This would tell something to comrades here.

It is not a matter of discovering at whose's door should one lay the 
blame for the defeat.  But it is a matter of understanding what is it 
that went wrong.  One can't blame the workers for defending 
themselves against the encroachment of their rights by a layer of 
bureaucrats who (at best) considered themselves the torchbearers of 
the Revolution and (at worst) had no principles whatsoever but 
reaping the benefits accruing from their privileged position.

The question cannot be separated from the overtaking of the old 
Bolshevik party by Menshevik elements under Stalin, sorry.  There was 
a political struggle to wage against this, and the Bolsheviks were 
not foredoomed.  The problem runs a lot deeper than the analysis 
perspirates.

In the end, what happened with the Russian Revolution was that the 
old Social Democrats took the State and found themselves with no 
bourgeoisie to negotiate with.  It is not a matter of chance that the 
most advanced elements in the Gorbachev group believed that a Left-
Socialdemocrat Russia was possible, much on the Olof Palme's Swedish 
model.  They forgot that Olof Palme's Sweden was _also_ an 
imperialist country.  But this was their social ideal.

We are still confronting the old problem, and on this Henry is right. 
 But I don't agree with the "solutions" proposed.  China is now, in 
its own way, a coin tossed to the air just like Trotsky said of 
Stalinist Russia.  My own hopes are that, unlike Russia, the best 
side of the CPC wins over the pro-bourgeois wing, and the Chinese 
masses can become owners of their own destiny in a way that both the 
imperialists and the bureaucrats would hate.

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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