Andrej:
>I think that this is , really, a crucial need. Where I disagree is that
>Louis, coming from trotskyst positions, thinks that this is the point of
>divergence between our approaches. I really couldn't care less from which
>segment of the Left you are coming from. I am in very good relationships
>with your comrades from French LCR, for instance. I think that members of
>this party are favoring wonderful sense of plurality and diversification,
>combined with class struggle for social justice.
Jonathan Swift: �That was excellently observed,� say I when I read a
passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then
I pronounce him to be mistaken.
>I wouldn't dare preaching to someone from Argentina about the nature of
>class relationship and history of his country on the basis of second-hand
>sources, without knowledge of history & political culture of this county.
Was I preaching? I'm sorry if I came across that way. But I am afraid that
you are putting impossible obstacles before us when you say that
second-hand sources are ruled out as a basis for making political
judgements. Unless you have grown up in Argentina, how else would you have
"knowledge of history and political culture"? Karl Marx never visited
Russia or the USA, but he wrote some extraordinarily intelligent things
based on investigations done at the London Library. Hurrah for books!!!
>Sure, I have my views. But when a person from Argentina, who is coming from
>the Left, is trying to explain to me ( not convince, explain) about the
>situation in his country, his ideological background notwithstanding, it
>could be even Jared Israel or what's his name, I would listen, with some
>respect. Perhaps I would nod in disagreement. But I would try to listen and
>I wouldn't attack him. Especially If I bare in mind that he was bombed for
>three months and participated in three wars.
>I hope that this makes some sense,
>Kind Regards,
> Andrej
No it doesn't, but hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Louis Proyect
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