[Marxism] MDC weaknesses

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

The _line of argument_ may become tedious.

Not _me_, because it is quite long since I last commented on Zimbabwe.

But more tedious is the _line of action by imperialism and its allies_.

And, mind all of you, wasn't it a Lenin who explained that politics
was a long exercise in patience?

I understand that many get bored. I do, myself. But such is life, sorry...

The problem still stands that when an imperialist intervention is on
the agenda, some people, tediously, honestly claim -as I claim myself-
that the "conflict [...] between [ZANU-PF, substitute adequate acronym
in different environments, for example Isabel Perón] and the working
class" will be solved _during and through_ the battle against
imperialist intervention and that thus if we really want to "take the
side of the working class and the political parties and grass roots
organizations that fight on their behalf" -mind you: not just those
that SAY TO FIGHT ON THEIR BEHALF!- then we must not, under any
argument, promote the so-called "class" (should I write, er,
"classist", or even "classy"?)  "interests of the working class" above
the _main_ interest of the working class, which is not to allow
imperialists to get any footing into the country. Particularly vicious
is the "humanitarian" or "democratic" footing. One does not need to
OPENLY PROMOTE this option in order to support it, not even WANT IT TO
HAPPEN...

That is, anti-imperialist struggle promotes an interest that may
include _unsavory alliances_. Failing to understand this may bring
about the worst consequences. I am sorry not to seem, to share this
view on this particular issue with Louis Pr, nor with other members of
this list. We have had strong such disagreements on other, more
complex issues, before, which did not imply our getting to each
other's throat. And I hope to keep that way.

But it is not me that is boring. It is the almost clockwork
predictability of imperialist interventions today. In Spanish we say
"el que se quemó con leche ve una vaca y llora", that is "people who
have got burnt with milk weep whenever they see a cow". My tears may
be boring, but they are not less real and realistic for that.

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Néstor Gorojovsky
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