From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Affirmat... Adolfo and Revolution in the "First World"
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:03:21 -0600 (CST)


    Adolfo's contempt for women as other than servants is fairly obvious,
but I think there is more to than that; I think he is operating essentially
>from a particular twist on "Maoism" in reference to the "First World":
he is still operating under a dogmatic assumption that Mao's strategy
in *China* of surrounding the cities could be applied as a strategy
of *World Revolution*, in which the semi-colonial, semi-feudal
"third world" was the "country" and the "first world" was the Cities.

    In other words, that there will be no revolution, nor even any
significant revolutionary struggle in the first world, and
therefore he need not pay any attention to problems of working
class unity in the first world; the task of "revolutionaries" in
the imperialist countries then is *only* to support revolutions
in the "country."

    His attacks on women are really attacks on *all* first world
workers, none of whom can be expected except on purely theoretical
(moral) grounds to be part of the "revolution."

    Any one who had to deal with Weathermen in the 60s knows all
he/she needs to know about Adolfo.
        Carrol


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