Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:55:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Understanding Nicaragua


On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Hugh Rodwell wrote:

> 
> But Louis, the NEP was a tactical retreat on the basis of a non-capitalist
> society, a workers' state, a dictatorship of the proletariat. The
> Sandinistas were retreating before they'd even won any ground, as far as
> the real capitalist-socialist struggle for territory is concerned. They
> refused to take social and economic power as a matter of strategy and were
> backed in this by Cuba and the Soviet Union. It was a strategy for defeat -
> in spite of the power of the mobilized Nicaraguan people - and it duly led
> to defeat.
> 

Louis: Adam made the right point to Carlos about the terms of the debate. 
Hugh Rodwell, who belongs to the organization that expelled Carlos, is 
also clear that the issues were socialism versus capitalism. I am trying 
to confront a general political position at this point. I am not 
interested in splitting hairs with Carlos. Hugh has the courage of his 
convictions to simply come out and say that the Sandinistas are to be 
condemned because they didn't take the Bolshevik road. This is the real 
debate, not a debate over terminology.


     --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---

     ------------------