Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:30:43 -0800
From: iwp.ilo-AT-ix.netcom.com (CEP )
Subject: Re: Vanguardism and 2 Clarifictions to Hugh


You(Jerry) wrote: 
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>Carlos wrote:
>> 
>>     I remember writting "the movement of a finger of the Soviet      
   
>>     proletariat will have the importance of 100 revolutions in
>>     Argentina" and being scorned by some members of the MAS 
leadership
>>     as anti-argentinean (This was in 1987).
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    Jerry:

>Hummm... Don't you think that the following equation bends the stick 
just 
>a little too far in the opposite direction?:
>
>1 finger movement of Soviet proletariat = 100 Argentinian revolutions  
(1)
>
>Equation (1) seems somewhat erroneous in retrospect. Would you not 
agree?
>
>Jerry
>
    Carlos:

    Not in the context it was made.  The Argentinian MAS was embarked
    in a utopian. electoralist, quasi-reformist frenzy disguised with
    "revolutionary" phraseology.  It was no revolution or revolutionary
    situation going on (note the year, 1987).

    So, It wasn't even a point of couterposing the " finger" to a
    revolution in a semicolonial country with barely 1.3 million
    industrial workers.  Was a "finger" of a colossus confronting
    nothingness.

    BTW, if the proletariat in the FSU had moved a "finger" of its
    100 million-strong proletariat to stop counterrevolution we would
    be better now (at the world scale) than the fullfillment of an
    empty prophecy about revolution in Argentina.

    Comradely,
    Carlos

    P.S.: Maybe a little rethorical ... but just maybe ... ok?


    





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