Thanks for clarifying, Hari. If I seemed confused about your position, it’s because I’ve only always viewed it from the outside. I agree with you that a major benefit of this list is to get to know and better understand other perspectives, whether we ultimately come to agree with them or not, and provided these discussions can be conducted in a calm and comradely way.
In this instance, you regard Castro and Chavez and others who were in the leadership of the Cuban and Venezuelan worker and peasant movements as revolutionary bourgeois nationalists who still had an historically progressive role to play against their comprador capitalists and landlords backed by US imperialism.They were (and are) therefore deserving of support, irrespective of whether or not they identify with Marxism. But it needs to be recognized that these bourgeois nationalists are not of the working class but only represent a preliminary and necessary stage in the struggle for socialism outside the advanced capitalist core. That struggle can only be completed by a Marxist-Leninist party in the mold of Lenin and Stalin and, on a smaller scale, Hoxha’s Albania. Unlike most other pro-Stalin ML-ists, you contrast the latter favourably against Mao’s equally “bourgeois nationalist” CCP. Do I have this right, or is further clarification necessary? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31351): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31351 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107582765/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
