Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 06:21:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Fwd: Sparts, RCP



You quote very selectively from the article Steve. I
don't have a great problem with language like that,
though I tend to avoid it, so long as there is
substance to go with it. And I think there is a good
deal of substance in the article: I found the alleged
parallels with anti-Nam war protests interesting, for
instance. In the same way, there is a lot of
interesting information in the other articles - about
the political scene in South Korea, for instance.

Leaving this aside, I wonder what you think of the
Refounded Communist Party in Italy, which you quoted
the Sparts ripping into. On the surface, it seems to
be quite an 'old-style' party, though I notice that it
avoids some of the worst features of the old Stalinist
CPs, at least on the surface (there appears not to be
a ban on factions, for instance). Is there a sense in
which any major successes for the RCP or a similar
entity would act as a riposte to Italian autonomist
claims that class recomposition entails the
obsolescence of the old-style party which was
supposedly based on a bygone Fordist society? 

Cheers
Scott




 

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