[Marxism] Zimbabwe - a blockaded country

[S. Artesian]

WL writes:
It's purpose is to pressure the president of Zimbabwe out of office and 
replace Mugabe with a president more acceptable to Washington, London and 
others of their ilk. It is this which should be first in the minds of people 
who  call themselves Marxists and who live in the countries which are 
conducting such a blockade against a third world country.
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 What should  be first is the analysis of the real economic conditions, 
internal and international,  that drive the classes and clashes in Zimbabwe, 
and that one class, the capitalist class uses, varying at times its tactics 
and its choice of agents, to prevent and undercut the other classes-- which 
are the workers and poor.

I have not seen one word of concrete analysis of the internal economic 
structure of Zimbabwe and its relations with global capitalism in all these 
supposed "anti-imperialist" defenses of Mugabe.

Anybody want to talk about the organization of agriculture?  Landed 
property?  Wage rates?

Does anyone really believe that IMF sanctions and CIA money are the sole 
sources of the struggle in Zimbabwe?

Is there no history of capitalist accommodation by ZANU-PF, adherence to IMF 
policies, and immiseration of the general population by the Mugabe 
government?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Lippmann" <walterlx at earthlink.net>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:12 AM
Subject: [Marxism] Zimbabwe - a blockaded country