On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: > > We Marxists, by the way, only support national movements that forward > the march towards socialism. Not every such movement does it.
So. All hail whatever Marxist Pope has decreed infallibly to his elect exactly which "proletarian nations" (like those that made a deal to divide up the area between them 70 years ago?) are "marching" (goose-stepping?) toward socialism and which oppressed peoples are too backward, too weak, too willing to accept help from suspect quarters, too impure to be anything but > ..."national" movements that, in fact, seek to destroy larger national > movements that tend to supersede imperialist domination... and so must be condemned with scarequotes when they assert their democratic rights against imperialist rule by a "larger national movement" constituting the second-strongest (but by far the oldest) empire in the world. That, presumably, is what is meant by saying that the "national question is a class question." Shane Mage > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, > kindling in measures and going out in measures." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
