[Marxism] Ahmadinejad: Capitalism nearing collapse

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

2008/4/25, Louis Proyect <lnp3 en panix.com>:
> Walter Lippmann wrote:
>
>  > Unless I'm not mistaken, Marxists haven't found quite the same
>  > following in Argentina than the Kirchners have developed.
>
>
> Part of the problem is that they were exterminated in the thousands just
>  as they were in Iran at the very same time. Exterminating Marxists tends
>  to weaken the Marxist movement.

I beg to differ. Politically, those "Marxists" were isolated from the
masses by their own action at the very least in 1945 (and probably
even during the earliest years of the 20th Century), and their
significance for the working class was nil. In fact, although of
course there were people of Marxist confession among the victims of
the 1975-83 (not mistaken with 1975) period, most (overwhelmingly
most) victims were not Marxists but Peronists.

Those groups that took to armed rebellion against Perón after 1973 or
stroke anti-Peronist agreements during the 1973-76 period might have
used Marxist bottles, but the wine within was petty bourgeois
nihilism. Or worse.

The single Marxist groups that knew what is it that was really
happening were the Izquierda Nacional and, in a certain bizarre way,
the Maoists of the Partido Comunista Revolucionario. All the rest
either took to "guerrilla" actions against a Constitutional regime, or
made an objective front with the forces of reaction. The victims were,
in part, them, but essentially the Arg working class. Sorry to put it
so bluntly, because I am very unfair. But I am short of time, English
is not my mother language, and this is a very complex history to do.

[Later on, Louis Pr. says]

>
>
> Of course many governments are in a struggle with the U.S. but Marxists
>  are under no obligation to genuflect before them as you do before the
>  altar of China and the Islamic Republic. How do you treat the callouses
>  on your forehead by the way? Vaseline?

I won't say a single word on other people's behaviour towards China or
the Islamic Republic. It is none of my business, though I can't but
state that this is not an easy position to take in the USofAmerica.
This said, however, I DO FULLY AGREE WITH LOUIS'S FIRST STATEMENT.

Marxists are in no obligation of genuflect, either in the imperialist
nations or in the semicolonial countries, to the national bourgeois
leadership. They have rather the OPPOSITE obligation. The problem
arises sometimes, however, of what is to be done when one's own
positions might be used by the common enemy of humankind to overthrow
or constrain those leaderships. Which cannot be solved with a general
position, methinks.

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Néstor Gorojovsky
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