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Louis wrote:“Just what the world has been waiting for. News about internecine warfare in the Argentine labor movement with no clue about how to verify the allegations. And in staircase formatting to boot. Ugh.” Shmuck alert!!! Shmuck alert!!! Perhaps some Spanish lessons might help? If not, perhaps a little less patronizing when you haven’t even looked into the facts? Of course, you don’t mean that your sources on your essay on Peron are “facts”? The allegations are pretty well verified, you don’t get the Peronist government –you don’t get Nestor Gorojovsky- to repudiate the murder if it had just been a scuffle, there are videos and tons of witnesses and even Nestor has just told a fairly accurate though purely factual account of the incident. I will say right here, that it is true that quite a number of Kirchnerists repudiate this crime, however “skewed” their vision, and that shows they have good, if naïve, intentions. Were the murderers Peronist? Who knows? (Unfortunately, David, people call themselves all sorts of things, like look at Nestor, he is a Marxist national socialist) The ideology of these slugs is irrelevant though, probably nothing more than “thuggism”? But what are the conditions that pre-exist their actions…ah well, that’s a totally different matter, and here there’s basically two ways to approach the thing: -The superficial idealist way: Oh these were just the corrupt “Stalinists”, the black sheep, of the labor movement. Nevermind all those pictures with the Kirchner couple and Moyano, and other state functionaries, they’re in, the meetings, the hugs, and all that love: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0YMSgZBTcys/SzQZynHuqsI/AAAAAAAAAPE/aIOPwS5izKw/s400/pedraza,+cristina+y+moyano.jpg from left to right: Pedraza - head of the Railroad Mafia, miss president courage, Hugo Moyano -modest leader of the corrupcion general del trabajo. Or, what is the other face of the same coin, i.e. apologetic, to think that in their revolutionary project the bourgeoisie will invariably have to deal with these bad sheep, because the revolutionary bourgeoisie have a national consciousness which can transcend capitalism through some idiotic dependency theory “magic trick” a la Laclau, etc., which is sort of the inverted utopia of anarchism, though, more deservedly in my view, an idealist “crock of shit.” -The materialist way: situating the position of the Kirchner government as what it is, the personification of the specific form of capital accumulation in Argentina (which results in almost the exact opposite picture provided by Dependency Theory). In this perspective, what one has to start with is that this form of accumulation preconditions the specific trend of the working class having to sell its labor-power below its value, and from this the immediate corollary is that the bourgeoisie have to break the unity of trade union struggles whatever it takes. For this, Peronist populism always served itself of the union bureaucracy, but in this pathetic re-vamped edition, it is being consumed by it since it has to impose more of this bureaucracy to make the workers accept the “tercerizacion” conditions. So, perhaps the murderers weren’t Peronists, but ‘the’ murderer was Peronism. And it murders because the left is itchy, bothersome, and it's bothersome because it's making progress. Or, we could just complain about the immorality about the tercerizacion conditions and go ask the revolutionary bourgeoisie to solve it for us with their all powerful will. Talk about the right side of the barricades… ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
