Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:08:04 GMT
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: Re: WORKERS' REVOLUTION


>Tannis writes:
>
>>I am doing a paper for my political philosophy class at the University of
>>Regina.  The topic I am exploring is "Why Marx's workers' revolution
>>hasn't happened yet".  I am interested in people thoughts on this subject
>
>

>
>The extent to which the bureaucratic regimes of all these non-capitalist
>states have been incapable of carrying on the task of furthering Marx's
>workers' revolution is indicated by their historically documented failure
>to support such a revolution when given the chance (eg Stalin's betrayal of
>the Chinese revolution of 1927 and of the Spanish revolution 1936-39,
>China's betrayal of the Indonesian revolution in 1965 and Cuba's betrayal
>of the Nicaraguan revolution in the decade following 1979). It is even more
>graphically illustrated by the handing over of the non-capitalist state to
>the imperialists by the bureaucracy itself in the Soviet Union and its
>satellites in Eastern Europe, and by the programmes of capitalist
>restoration so far still under the control of the bureaucracies in China
>and Cuba, for example.
>
>Trotskyists say that to be finished, the revolution must be not merely
>social - with an overturn of property relations - but also political, with
>a regime of workers' democracy. To achieve this revolutions need to be led
>by a party conscious of all these problems and capable of inspiring
>international mobilization of the working class both to defend
>revolutionary victories wherever they occur and to carry the revolution to
>victory in other countries.
>
>Oh, and Marxist theory makes it clear that it will be impossible for even
>the simplest demands of equity and democracy to be met unless the
>revolution is led by a consciously socialist, proletarian party, even in
>countries with very small working classes and large sectors of subsistence
>farmers, say.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hugh
>



In all this baloney, where do you place the betrayal of the Peruvian
revolution by the SWP (UK) and its rabid and LYING publications against the
Communist Party of Peru - "A Path of Blood" I believe it is called - in
which they even quote me completely out of context and raise the usual
anti-revolutionary Trostkyst rubbish?

A case of the left hand does not know what the RIGHT hand is doing? 

In my opinion, we need more and more "traitors" like J.V. Stalin and
Chairman Mao-Tse-tung, and a lot less mouthpieces for imperialism and
reaction babbling about the price of potatoes in the market place and
calling that "Marxism".


A. Olaechea



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