Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:31:49 -0800
From: iwp.ilo-AT-ix.netcom.com (CEP )
Subject: Re: Eternal Glory to the Jacobins (Article in NLR)


You(Carrol) wrote: 
>. . .the
>revolutions of the 20th c have not been anti-capitalist (despite the
>wishes or programmes of their protagonists or the fears of some of
>their enemies) but rather the same as the revolutions of the last
>century."
>
    Carlos:

    This characterization is not far from that sustained by several
    schools of Marxism, particularly in Latin America and Asia that
    argued that the "February 1917 was the last revolution of the
    past century and October 1917 the first of this century.  The
    February revolution is the model of the democratic political
    revolution, October represent the anti-capitalist trend ...."
    and "What happened afterward is a regression to the old             
    revolutionary forms, the forms of bourgeois revolutions disguised
    as anti-system revolutions ... it is all a question of the
    retreat of the working class consciousness ...."   

    Comparing the jacobins, though, with the leaders of other           
    revolutions of this century is a disservice to the Jacobins.
    The Jacobins were the most advanced of the old, Stalinism was
    the most backward of the new.

    Comradely,
    Carlos



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