[Marxism] For the record and sorry

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Solanas may look like a left socialist candidate. He is not.

He is one of the artisans who led to the de la Rúa government.

He has collected the fraction of the right wing vote that would not 
stomach voting for an outright neoliberal such as Michetti or Prat Gay 
in a traditionally anti-popular city. At most, he can aspire at becoming 
future Major in Buenos Aires, and trying to turn it into a film set.

Which is of course better than Macri, but almost anything is.

The real dimension of who was defeated can be measured by a single fact 
among many others: the President of Argentina was the FIRST Lat Am Prez 
who offered herself to go by Prez Zelaya in his return to Tegucigalpa.

Can´t explain more. But the Solanas case is becoming the immediate case 
study of "antinational and antipopular pseudo-Leftism". Solanas, BTW, 
was never socialist. He began his political carreer as a young 
moderately left wing developmentist, later on discovered Peronism 
together with all his generation, now he is returning to his origins and 
beyond.

What is true is that Solanas has a a small Socialist group called 
Partido Socialista Auténtico -many personal friends in there, once upon 
a time they knew how to distinguish the Sociedad Rural Argentina from 
the Arg people, not now any more- who are helping him. I am absolutely 
sure that Mario Mazzitelli, the head of that group, will be at best 
canibalized by Solanas, at worst -which I am almost 100% convinced won´t 
happen because Mario is one of the most decent guys you can find on 
Earth- corrupted.

The enormous space that the mainstream, oligarchic press and media have 
been giving to Solanas and the praise he has received from neoliberal 
Major of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri are enough signals to define his 
candidature this time.

Whatever you may think of peronism, etc., don´t think that Solanas has 
anything to do with anything else than a fake verbalist socialism.

The first thing he did after Cristina offered him a silver bridge to 
ally against the oligarchic groups in Parliament was to declare that 
there was an abyss between him and the Government. His main diputado, 
Claudio Lozano, not only voted against the tax project against the 
agrarian rent that the Government tried to pass the year before, he 
lobbied for that vote.

Sepoy socialists are first of all sepoys, only later socialists. Solanas 
has decided to cater to that kind of voters. Of course BBC and others 
will present him as an alternative to Kirchner. He is "the Left of Her 
Majesty", unless he turns his steering wheel 180 degrees.

I still keep a little flame of hope. But I happen to know him well.

As a final comment, and although social origin should not be used 
against any person, it should be mentioned that Solanas is not Solanas 
but Solanas Pacheco. The Solanas Pacheco have always been one of the 
core families of the oligarchy in Buenos Aires Province.

S. Artesian escribió:
> When Nestor gets time, I hope he expands on that.  My limited information--  
> from the usual suspect sources-- FT, BBC, "official" Argentine press-- leads 
> me to believe that this is a defeat for the "center-left" of the Peronist 
> "panoply."  In Buenos Aires, I read that the left socialist candidate ran a 
> strong second to the business candidate.
> 
> This is exactly what we should expect to happen as the struggle sharpens. 
> The task is to take advantage of it-- if indeed this outcome in Buenos Aires 
> represents a trend.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" <nmgoro en gmail.com>
> To: <sartesian en earthlink.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:02 AM
> Subject: [Marxism] For the record and sorry
> 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the consequences of Sunday´s election in Argentina may
> well be worse in the long term than the consequences of the Honduran
> coup. Hope I am wrong
> 
> 
> 
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