A rather unfortunate blog item, then. It is written as if the illusions that define the current state of consciousness in Honduras do not exist, as if only they could hear of "The Good News" all would by Right and Red.
What brings the masses into continual strikes in Honduras, the workers out in demonstrations, clashes etc *never* changed: return of the Prez to office. What got his ass thrown out was his *suggestion* of a Constituent Assembly. The CA is too radical for Pinochetti and the Honduran national Oligarchy. They don't want a democratic solution. They like the fact that the democratic implications of Honduras' 150 years of independence from Spain never made it pass the formality of the Republic and picture of democracy: 2 dimensional and flat. If the masses are for democracy, it is not for anyone to say otherwise. Is it? If it was the return of the Prez to office booted out by their class enemy, how do remote admonitions about the need to to "abandon illusions in democracy" (my paraphrase) at all have any resonances *what so ever*???? Revolutionaries will not only support the call for the Constituent Assembly and that which the Oligarchical capitalist compradores oppose enough to out the President, they will be the best builders of it. I *strongly suspect* that Revolutionaries there, if they actually *lead* the movement there, are or part and parcel of this movement, they will raise the fact that they the Honduran democratic revolution will call for any CA to be completely *sovereign* and write a social constitution. Building peoples and workers organizations to base such a CA on, or exist parallel to it, will be something that has to grow *organically* out of that movement, but it won't happen unless there is a mobilization *for* a Constituent Assembly [because that is where "people with property" are drawing the line]. They are all tied together. Democratic revolutions only come to power based on what people are willing to fight and die for. They are not fighting and dying for soviet power or a socialist revolution. They are fighting for democracy. Can these goals of a social constitution be met within the confines of democracy? Of course not. Only a workers and peasants government can do that. But the movement around the Constituent Assembly is exactly the kind of movement that gets people to break with capitalist democracy and start seeing that only such a government can accomplish those tasks. Simply calling for a gov't like that with dire warnings is hardly meeting the politics of the Honduran masses. D. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
