Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:51:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Perplexing Ilan



> as sure as night follows day parliamentary
> 'radicals' will support the 
> imperatives of capitalism.

Leaving aside the issue of the pros and cons of
electoralism, this is no sort of materialist
explanation of the degeneration of the 2nd Intl, or of
trajectory of the Greens. In the case of the First
World War which you mentioned, there were
parliamentary deputies who refused to support the war
drive - Liebnicht (sic?) and Otto Ruhle are two German
examples, I think.

There is a need to get away from this idealist
obsession with the power of political positions - of
isms - and think about the material causes of the
directions taken by different political currents.
To run the Greens and the Second Intl together under
the same pseudo-explanation (a symptom posing as a
cause) is to completely ignore their different social
bases.

Cheers
Scott

 

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