[Marxism] BOLIVIA: As Tensions Skyrocket Where Do Marxists Stand

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:24:04 +0300
>From: "yossi schwartz" <ssschwartz8 at gmail.com>
>
>J Martin is a leader of the IMT   that  in the Middle East refuse to
>acknowledge that there is a different between military block and political
>support. For this reason they refused to support military Hamas when the Abu
>Mazen armed forces acting as agents of Israel attacked the elected
>government in Gaza January last year. Because we  the Marxists in Israel
>insisted on the need to defend Hamas we were expelled. Now all of a sudden
>they act very differently in Bolivia. This is pure  hypocritical cynicism.
>Speaking from tboth side of the mouth or split tonge as the North American
>Indiands use to say about such persons.

The IMT has been sectarian towards liberation movements in Palestine, Ireland, Spain (ETA), and (probably) other places I'm forgetting. They managed to attack the IRA for its violence while remaining members of the British Labour Party while it was violently suppressing the Irish people and committing other, greater, crimes around the world. In all these cases, IMO, they were catering to the chauvinism of the workers of the oppressor nation.

The situation is different in Bolivia, where the working class is mostly indigenous and oppressed by the European minority. In this case, there's no privileged, chauvinist working class to suck up to, so their workerism puts them on the right side of the barricades.

 - Aaron