Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:50:33 -0400
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: Proyect embraces Cuban stalinism


dear friends,

Proyect lets his state-capitalist cats out of the bag 
once again. 

To Proyect , building socialism has nothing to do 
with abolishing expoloitation, wage-labor -capital
social relations in a society ruled by the working class.
To Proyect , the 'laws of capital accumulation" must
be adhered to, albeit under his  state capitalism now, not 
 the previous private marketeer type. 
This is why when Proyect talks about the industrialization,
he does not mention the the class/social relations of production
at all. He deals in constant capital --hiding the role of 
variable capital and profits the Cuban  Castro Bros. and the 
exUSSR regimes  of  Stalin, Khrushchev   and Brezhnev as well,
suck out of the workers.

If one were to base "progress" on merely  how much industry a 
country can build in this epoch, then Proyect  today should back the 
USA and the UK, Japan, Sweden , Germany , etc too, not just sing  
his hosannas to the growth rates of the exUSSR!  By the way,
the lack of capital accumulation and growth in the exUSSR
was one of the reasons why the Russian led state cap bloc collapsed.
This is the age of imperialist capital, Lou P, capitals ' progressive'
 period  in  history is long over!
Nice pull on the trick bag apologetics  Lou P. , but  it won't work.


In fact Proyect in apologizing for state capitalism/ neo-stalinism,
-his list profession, never  much even mentions the class relations 
 of the working class to the capitalist state or state capitalism,
because this would expose his state capitalist charlatanry.
His own 'socialist" conception is that the workers need his
savoirs, his  Castro's, Kabila's , Najibullah's, etc  to rule over them .
 This has more to do with a religion, not marxism.

Proyect, the goal of socialists/communists is to work for the 
 workers mass movements to overthrow capitalist property relations,
state and private, not to embellish wage slavery of Bounapartist
despots in their snappy little military uniforms ,a la your Stalin ,Kabila,
 Danny Ortega,  Najibullah, or the Castro dynasty  as you
constantly do on this list.

Neil



 


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