Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:37:40 -0500
From: james m blaut <70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: New List


Mark: 

1. What "scurrilous takeover?" I joined the LeninList because I wanted to
converse with Leninists. As far as I can tell, the scurrilous takeover bid
(that failed) came from Adolfo, taking his tactics from the Spart manual.
(His political views are absolutely irrelevant.)

2. What is this "campaign against slash-and-burn?" If you are as
ecologically sophisticated as you certainly appear to be, and a Marxist to
boot, you must know that so-called slash and burn agriculture -- that is,
shifting, or forest-fallow peasant agriculture  -- has NOTHING to do with
the ecological problems of this earth. Timber companies do not slash and
burn: the cut down trees. Cattle ranchers just burn, to remove forest and
enlarge their pasutres; they don't slash.

I'm sure you're not making this argument, but contemporary Marxists'
ignorance of, and sometimes comntempt for, the peasants , who make up
between 50% and 60% of the world's populatiuon, and for all Third World
working people, is the main reason why Marxism plays no important role in
revolutionary struggles around the world. 

If I had to make a prediction, I would say that it will be the billions of
peasants, whose livelihood is under violent attack by multinational and
local capitalism, with help from the few millions of Third World industrial
workers, who will start the socialist revolution. I have a great fear that
First World Marxists will not play a role in that porocess.

En lucha

  


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