Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 08:13:40 GMT From: Ron Press <anclondon-AT-gn.apc.org> Subject: Nationalism + Hi Again It is Sunday and I am up early. There is a tendency to propose on each topic an all or nothing approach. For example some one has dismissed nartionalism out of hand. Yet the Russian revolution as well as the Chinese one were highly coloured by nationalism. Again on the question of NAFTA. Is it a good thing ot not? Did Marx approve or not? Is the UK being in Europe a progressive move or not? The answer is of course yes and no. It is both good and bad. Am I a structuralist or an anti-structuralist. I think I am both. Is there an arrow of time. Yes. Does it only point in the direction of the proletarian revolution. Well Yes !!. It is quite fun really because when one is in the thick of the struggle all these doubts and mental tortures are present but get subsumed by activity against the bastards that are screwing you and your friends. It does not always help to slug the boss when he fires you but it sure makes you feel good at the time. ( There is a chap in the UK who killed his boss because the boss changed his shift pattern) In the long term we have to come to terms with the necessity to use all the forums and opportunities to add structure to the dissparate struggles going on against the capitalist system that is screwing all of us. But I agree not too much structure. Ron Again Press. --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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