Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:57:08 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: Korea


Nick wrote:

> On the side of the bourgeoisie is international capital. On the side of the Korean workers are...the workers of 
> the world. And at their head is the vanguard, the organised Marxists. Or are they? I paid a visit to the Korean 
> general strike web page yesterday, to pass on solidarity greetings in my role as a parliamentary candidate for 
> the UK Labour Party (a small contribution I admit, but we all have to do what we can). I looked down the list 
> of solidarity greetings for familiar names from the marxism lists, and saw none. Why not? Comrades, I cannot 
> believe that we are too busy debating whether the working class has 
the ability for revolution that we cannot spare five minutes of on-line time to register our support, as Marxists, for the 
> Korean general strike. Where are our priorities?

I wouldnt say that this list or M-I is part of the `organised' Marxists. 
More like `disorganised'.  Still some of the list members are in organisations which 
probably  appear on the web page. Their priority mayl be to indentify 
their organisation and give a short message of solidarity, not sign 
their names as individuals.  Some like Workers Voice (US)  on January 5th,  
may even offer a short set of demands necessary to win a General Strike 
and unite North and South Korea as one  socialist republic.  Unlike 
Godena. 
Dave
 


     --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---