Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 03:08:57 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: MRTA- Revolutionaries, or counter-revolutionaries?


Jay,

You wrote:


>MRTA - Revolutionaries, or Counter-revolutionaries?
>
>
>Everyone knows that Peru is living through a social-political revolution in
>which the main motor of revolutionary change is the armed struggle
>implemented as People's War by the Communist Party of Peru.
>
>With the occassion of the seizure of the Japanese embassy in Lima, some
>people who otherwise hold to communist positions, have become confused by
>this event, applying wrongly the United Front policies in a menshevik
>manner. i.e. advocating united front between revolutionary and
>counter-revolutionary forces, between communists and anti-communists,
>between consistent anti-imperialist fighters, and utter stooges of
>imperialism and the darkest reactionary forces in Peru WITHIN THE CONTEXT 
>OF A REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 
>
>These comrades fail to understand the fundamental issue of United Front 
>policy: United front is FOR, and never against the revolution!  United 
>Front for the People's War and its victory, and not for its capitulation.  
>United Front for the SMASHING of the ruling class state, not for its 
>preservation by means of a "lasting and inclusive peace agreement".
....

(etc)

This is pretty good stuff, Jay - a basically correct analysis,
so far, on that level.

I think it would be quite qualified for a "Marxism-Major" or
even a "Marxism-Colonel" mailing list.

Now the question we've been discussing, some of us, on *this
here* list, is: More precisely *WHICH* gangster in the world
might be behind this (of course counter-revolutionary) action?

Do you have any theory on this, Jay?

I think we *should try* - since "there's nobody here but
us chickenses" - the best we can, to do some overall analysis,
provide, if possible, some *"General-level"* leadership. 

Rolf M.







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