[Marxism] MDC weaknesses

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

2008/7/2, S. Artesian <sartesian en earthlink.net>:

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>
>  The late Mark Jones disagreed with about everything I said, and vice-versa.
>  But, I wrote on one occassion, if Savimbi had won in Angola, and if 3 years
>  after that he fell out with his imperialist sponsors, even if it was over
>  his simple greed to claim more of the mineral wealth as his own, and if
>  those sponsors then called for sanctions or fielded a force to overthrow
>  Savimbi, we, as Marxists would oppose those sanctions and that field force
>  without changing our analysis and opposition to Savimbi one bit.   Mark
>  wrote me to say that he found that our agreement on that position to be
>  worth more than all the strenuous disagreements we had.
>
>  Same thing with Nestor.  He and I disagree almost always.   One thing we
>  absolutely agreed upon was the need to oppose any UN/US military venture in
>  Myanmar under the mask of humanitarianism.  Doesn't change our other
>  disagreements; doesn't change the nature of the Myanmar regime.

Not to copy Mark J., but I also find that our agreement on that
position is worth more than all the strenuous disagreements we had
(and will have once and again). And there is another point of
agreement which, as time passes by, will also become substantial (re:
energy), which is our common standing (and even love) for railroad
transport. But this, I guess, we share with many members of this list,
perhaps most. One of the few advertisements I have ever considered
truthful was that by Amtrak, a long decade ago: railroads are the
civilized way to travel.

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Néstor Gorojovsky
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