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Charles Brown wrote:
>However, in this case this is how I would change history: prosecute
>the fascists not the communists and socialists. Not that complex, I
>know.
And who's going to do this? The bourgeois state?
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CB: Good point. I was getting a bit Utopian , because Jim D. said we shouldn't be
limited in our thinking by history and historical precedent.
I see this as a programatic element for a Left Front in the crisis situation that Jim
D. sketched out in his post. So, the state would be in play, would be an area of real
contest, and would not be fully and thoroughly dominated by the bourgeoisie.
Specifically, Jim referred to a situation of economic crisis and mass left parties. I
took this to mean that the state was somewhat in play. We'd have to have left sections
in the military, as with solidiers and sailors soviets prior to 1917 in Russia. Sort
of a combination of Chile 1971 and Venezuela 2000.
