[Marxism] Criticism from afar

[S. Artesian]

Gee, that's great Eli, and in 1973 when Pinochet takes power in Chile, and 
Allende, in the midst of the coup, urges workers to stay at home, to not 
come into the streets, to not combat the coup, to trust the authorities to 
protect democracy, what do you think your ONLY task is?

I mean, let's be realistic.  You're not going to keep the US government off 
anyone's back without developing a revolutionary movement and you're not 
going to develop a revolutionary movement in the US by ignoring the obvious 
failures, weaknesses, capitulations of other revolutionary movements, 
because there are those here who want to repeat exactly the same failures of 
a Allende, a Lula.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Stephens" <elishastephens at hotmail.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 2:27 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Criticism from afar



I think this last point is perhaps what differentiates some of us from 
others of us. Living as I do in the United States, I consider it my ONLY 
task to keep the United States government off the back of the government and 
people of Venezuela (or Iran or etc.)