Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:37:10 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: marxism


=C2ngelo, you wrote:


>Hi Rolf,
>
>Yes, I know Hekmat lived in Sweden in the late 80's. We (I mean some
>comrades of mine in Lisbon grouped around a magazine - Pol=EDtica Oper=E1ria
>or 'Workers' Politics'- and a small publisher) don't know where is he
>now. We would like to reestablish contact with him and, perhaps,
>translate and publish some of his texts in Portugal.

I shall ask my Iranian-origin friends if they know where to get
more of Hekmat's writings.
>
>I'm not a maoist. In fact, I'm too young to be marked by these violent
>controversies. My comrades here however do have a m-l trajectory behind
>them.

Please =C2ngelo, how in your opinion can one be a Marxist and *not*
adhere to Mao Zedong Thought today? (The Chinese and other adherents
of this ideology, some 20 years ago, never called themselves
"Maoists" - this term has been used only, later, by some people who
in fact so far have not said anything against a certain distortion
of Mao Zedong's line in international questions, above all.)
"These violent controversies" was and is the rejection and
repudiation of modern revisionism.

>We are now trying to think things over from Lenin on.
>I agree with much of what you say about the breaks being put on the
>development of the forces of production. However, I would put my
>emphasys on the monopolistic structure an not so much on campaigns and
>the ecologisms that are, in my view, an epiphenomenon.
>
>With my most cordial salutes,
>
>                                    =C2ngelo Novo
>
The "campaigns and ecologisms" stem precisely from that
monopolistic structure and are only the political propaganda
part of a very serious general attack, also in the economic
field, against the workers and the oppressed peoples. This is
by no means a small phenomenon but a very big one. It has been
the theme of many very big inter-imperialist conferences,
such as the one in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, one today
constantly sees that propaganda in the openly-bourgeois
mass media and the corresponding curtailment and destruction
of industry is very big indeed, having a big part of the
responsibility for today's unemployment in Portugal, Sweden
and many other European countries. I've already written
a number of things on this and I shall write more later.

Again: If you - quite correctly, in my opinion - are going
back to Lenin, how can you avoid Mao Zedong?

Rolf M.



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