[Marxism] Happy anniversary - Hungary and Suez

[Lüko Willms]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:03:32 EDT, Jscotlive at aol.com wrote:

> It's not good enough to say that because Lukacs was 
> against the uprising then that is enough. 

  depends on whom is saying that..

> Surely we have to look at the forces involved, what was at  
> stake, and who stood to benefit from any possible outcome. 

  Well, the outcome of the violent repression of the Hungarian uprising 
of 50 years ago, is quite visible to us today, and to more lucid 
observers back then: the restoration of capitalism in Hungary, and the 
idological triumph of capitalism. 

> Through the prism of  time we are able 
> to take a much more objective view of these various 
> factors and  come up with a more sober assessment. 

  In other words: Even the most reluctant elements have to recognize the 
reality, that the stalinist burocracy was a counterrevolutionary force. 

> The collapse of the SU has been a disaster 
> for the international working class. 

  And a big relieve from a reactionary force which held back the working 
people and oppressed nations from a thorough fight against capitalism 
and imperialism. Unfortunately there is no straight line of advancement 
in human history; on the contrary it is marked by ups and downs, 
retreats and big leaps forward. 

  And the birth of something new is always a painful and mostly bloody 
process. 

> The Hungarian Uprising, which came on the  back of 
> Khruschev's speech at the Twentieth Congress, placed the 
> entire Soviet  Bloc in peril at a time when the rigid control of the 
> Bureacracy was loosening  under Khruschev's influence. 

  Well, the loosening of the "rigid control of the burocracy" over the 
working class was a good thing, wasn't it? We had to start breathing 
again, hadn't we? 

  What really put "the entire Soviet Bloc in peril" was exactly the 
violent suppression of the Hungarian uprising. You have at least to 
admit, that it did not prevent the restoration of capitalism in Hungary 
and is still half a century later a strong ideological weapon for 
capitalist minority rule. 

  And the force really defending it was not the Soviet Army, but the 
Egyptian masses defending their Suez Canal against the colonialist 
attack of England, France and Israel to put the Canal again under direct 
colonial rule. 

  I don't know, if the Kreml gave verbal or even more support for the 
Egypt cause of national liberation, but their action in Hungary put in 
peril the defense of Egypt against the colonialist aggression, and the 
whole anticolonialist revolution in Africa and Asia. It couldn't contain 
it completely, as it had contained and destroyed the Spanish revolution 
in the 1930ies, but it certainly contributed to the deformation of the 
independence struggle. 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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