[Marxism] Callinicos reacts to the NPA

[Paddy Apling]

Joaquin, you have REALLY hit the nail on the head with this epistle !!

An excellent and simple - yet erudite and even poetic - explanation of the 
difference between the r-r-r-revolutionary sectarian and the true 
revolutionary, the working-class (even if his class origin and position may 
well be entirely bourgeois or of the  professional elite) 
agitator-educator..

The word Joaquin in the From column nearly always indicates something that 
demands immediate avoidance of that well-used delete-key.

This one demands use of the Copy to Folder link instead !!

Comradely greetings (4 days after my 84th birthday)

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo at gmail.com>
To: <e.c.apling at btinternet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Callinicos reacts to the NPA


> Luko writes: <<It is not enough to know what you are _against_ (it is 
> called
> the "anti-capitalist party"), but what you are _for.>>
>
> I'm not going to try to be cute, or facetious, or obscure in this post, 
> just
> straightforward. I think Luko has put his finger on *precisely* what the
> error is, at least expressed in ideological terms, which is that you have 
> to
> know what you are "for."
>
> I believe, in counterposition to Luko and others, that the important thing
> is NOT "knowing what you are for," at least not in any ultimate or even
> quasi-definitive way that will STILL be true two or three years from now,
> should a revolution break out, but knowing *who you ARE.*
>