Furuhashi:
>Brenner can't be in support of both stagism & "socialism from below"
>at the same time.
What on earth are you talking about? Brenner was connected with the
Analytical Marxist current before it gave up the ghost. These people, G.A.
Cohen et al, are Second Internationalists in cap and gown. And why can't he
be for "socialism from below"? This is such an amorphous idea that any
leftist would be able to endorse it. It is our version of "family values".
>Moreover, support of left nationalisms like
>Peronism tends to contradict "socialist revolution right now," though
>your posts suggest you favor both.
I support Peron against Anglo-American imperialism. This is common Marxist
practice. I learned this in the Trotskyist movement. I can refer you to
some of the literature, specifically Trotsky's defense of Haile Selassie
against Mussolini as an extreme example. For that matter, the Comintern
supported the Kuomintang in the early 1920s. The difference between Trotsky
and Stalin was over whether the CP should have retained a separate
identity, with its own newspaper, etc. The debate was not over whether the
KMT should have been backed in a fight for national independence.
>I'm not sure what you are
>criticizing or advocating here (and for which country, region, or
>whatever), since your posts go into opposite directions.
Other people don't seem to have this problem. You can hear them snarling
right now much to my satisfaction.
>Our problem, in any case, is that none of the above -- stagism,
>"socialist revolution right now," "socialism from below," & left
>nationalism -- is popular today.
I don't care about being popular. In high school I read James Joyce while
everybody else preferred Grace Metalious.
Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
