Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 12:06:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Vanguardism and 2 Clarifictions to Hugh


On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Hugh Rodwell wrote:

> I'd welcome further discussion on this, because it's a key experience for
> the working class, especially in Latin America. For instance, I think the
> 'gamble' of MAS paid off in the enormous attraction it exerted immediately
> after the dictatorship. The problem is, what forces and what principles
> were involved when MAS ran into crisis. Two huge factors were the death of
> the leader of this tendency, Moreno, and the collapse of Stalinism in the
> ex-Soviet Union.
> 

Louis: This is precisely what I was talking about. The MAS stands for 
Movement Toward Socialism, a Nicaraguan left group that wanted to oust 
the Sandinistas. It basically viewed the Sandinistas as Mensheviks while 
they were the Bolsheviks, the real communists. Now Hugh tells us that 
Moreno, an Argentinian, was the "leader of this tendency".

What arrogance: an Argentinian directing a party in Nicaragua from 
afar. What I find startling is that Hugh Rodwell doesn't see how 
bureaucratic this is, while Carlos, even after being expelled by this 
very same current, can't make the proper connections intellectually and 
politically.





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