[Marxism] Evo or Bush (was: RE: Sh*flying in upcomingBolivianelections)

[S. Artesian]

I am impressed with your optimism and overall confidence in the MAS' sense 
of responsibility, particularly in the face of the rewards such optimism and 
responsibility have been accorded by history.

I am not lecturing anybody and I do not think that Morales and MAS are 
stupid or treacherous.  You miss, as you always do, the class content. 
That is to say, by their very organization and program of class 
collaboration, Morales and the MAS do what they do, and don't do what they 
don't do.  This has nothing to do with intelligence and/or treachery.

And if you miss class, then you must miss history-- Goulart doesn't matter, 
Allende doesn't matter, Arbenz, the Villoreal, MNR, even old Honest Abe--  
doesn't matter.

I bet you're right, about Boliva's allies and customers, particularly the 
customers, since Brazil has extensive interests in Santa Cruz,  in access to 
Boliva's gas fields and supplies, in soybean processing, etc.   And I'm sure 
the US, as another big customer is providing pressure.... to "slow down the 
process of reform".  But Bolivia is not, as the movement towards secession 
proves, in a process of reform.  It is in a process of civil war.

Have "the masses" lost confidence in Morales?  I don't know.  Maybe yes, 
maybe not yet.  But you really need to look at the history of Bolivia, of 
the MNR, and then of the MAS to get some idea on how both MNR and MAS 
"tailed" "the masses," and where that process of tailing, of "responsibility 
to pressures" took the Bolivian revolution before, and where the MAS will 
take it now.

You don't think Bolivia has been down this road before?  It sure has, 
several times-- governments of "national salvation," programs for indigenous 
rights, land reform, etc. etc., each time the programs, the salvation 
depended upon reconciling with the pressures from customers and allies, of 
preventing the expropriation of property by the workers, of being 
"responsible."   Each time the agents of such responsibility were not acting 
out of stupidity or treachery, but out of their class organization.

Stupidity is probably better reserved for those who Marxism consists of a 
repetition compulsion for failure.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Evo or Bush (was: RE: Sh*flying in 
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