Yoshie:
>For such a transition to happen, first of all, the FARC (with aid
>from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela perhaps) -- or some other social forces
>if the FARC fail -- have to _win_. Then, it will be up to them --
>not you -- to reshape Columbia for the benefit of the Columbian
>masses. What's the FARC program of agriculture, industry, etc. in
>the event they win?
The FARC advocates substituting food production for coca production in a
socialist Colombia. In fact they tried to eliminate coca production in
liberated territories at first, but were overridden by the masses who
forcefully made the point that without coca, they could not survive.
>BTW, the FARC wouldn't have been able to expand & maintain their
>power if they had not taxed coca cultivation and cocaine production
>to fund its war effort while protecting coca growers. This being the
>case, it seems inadvisable for liberals & leftists in imperial
>nations to lend ideological support to the war on drugs by
>encouraging moral panics about consumption of recreational drugs &
>other "bad" products.
I am strictly opposed to moral panics. I learned that from reading LM
magazine, doncha know.
>It is capitalism -- _not_ the finite quantity of land & water per se
>-- that compels export monoculture while masses in poor nations can't
>even eat enough rice & beans. We have to make that clear to people
>in America.
True. True. But land and water will still be finite under communism. Cattle
will waste land and water, even under communism. As stewards of the planet,
socialists have an obligation to persuade the masses to shun wasteful
practices.
Louis Proyect
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