[Marxism] MDC weaknesses

[Louis Proyect]

Nestor wrote:
>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_.

Another defender of cops tearing down shacks underneath all the 
high-flung rhetoric.