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Well...Louis suggested "Well-meaning Trotskyist comrades who castigate the Sandinistas for not carrying out permanent revolution should remind themselves of the full dimensions of Trotsky's theory." Indeed...but it the theory didn't stop in 1907, now did it? Reading what Louis wrote it's as if Trotsky only designated his theory for Tsarist Russia. Indeed...when he wrote it. But after the debacle in China, and along with this Draft Criticism of the Communist International he and his movement applied universally. That is the "full dimensions of Trotsky's theory". Leaving that aside is if it's applied to Nicaragua, this means...what exactly? Not seizing power? Limiting, even against the wishes of the rural masses and urban workers further nationalizations? What would be the point then of the FSLN coming to power if only to topple the hated dictatorship? In fact, the self-limitations imposed by the FSLN worked out well, huh? Plus, Louis, you make it out to seem as if nothing else was going on the region...like El Salvador, Guatemala, etc. I am not arguing had, as A. Sandino suggested..."only the workers and peasants can go all the way" ...that the results wouldn't of been any different. Though we never would know had they, the FSLN, lead the masses to just that, that an even deeper radicalization would not have shifted the entirety of Central America working masses to consider socialist solutions. Revolutions happen when it's least expected, afterall. David Walters _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
