> On Nov 4, 2024, at 7:53 PM, Marv Gandall via groups.io
> <marvgand2=gmail....@groups.io> wrote:
>
> What you're picking up from me is that I believe the central issue which
> Bellamy Foster is addressing has been debated many many times on the list.
I think JBF and MR contributors have analyzed these issues in other venues, and
one could expect that here, but the article doesn't do that
(https://monthlyreview.org/2024/11/01/the-new-denial-of-imperialism-on-the-left/#en70).
There's no analysis of the Ukraine invasion by Russia in the context of
imperialism. In those works, Lenin's writings on the role of
self-determination and proletarian unity, including between the Ukrainian and
Great Russian workers remained unexplored as Lenin's and the Comintern writings
are forced into a narrow context.
I haven't identified the "humanitarian imperialists" that JBF mentions in his
rogues gallery, and maybe that would be the people who support Ukraine in the
Russian invasion. The assertion that Ukraine is only a proxy war is assumed,
not explained. The class nature of China is assumed not analyzed. Also assumed
in the first paragraph of the article is that there exist "Eurocentric sections
of Western Marxism." "Eurocentrism" was not defined but hurled, which tips off
the reader in the first sentences that the article is more about heat than
light. While the literature on Eurocentrism is surely something well
understood by the MR cognoscenti (like sartesian, I read few of the writers
mentioned), so the uninitiated must try to bridge the gap between what Samir
Amin and others wrote on the topic and the assumptions JBF's makes about those
he critiques.
The writers chosen for JBF's critique serve as foils for an otherwise very good
review of Lenin's works on Imperialism, colonial revolution, and self
determination - from a certain perspective. The references alone make the
paper worthwhile as does the quality of scholarship. I thought the paper was a
very interesting ride to nowhere.
Mark
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