In the sixties and somewhat also in the seventies the Left in Turkey had the similar camps, i.e. the national-democratic revolution vs. the socialist revolution.
Ahmet
I might suggest that the collapse of the USSR provides the ultiamte case in point for dialectical stagism :-). The imposition of a socialist system on an underdeveloped country set the framework for its eventual collapse for a lot of reasons: Stalinism being the primary reason and the subsequent inability to develop democratic and multi-party forms of class hegemony. The Japanese Party's position is something to consider (as I understand it their daily paper has several hundred thousand readers). Now while in the US the stage of development suggests the imminence of a socialist revolution and the fullest development of the productive forces and relations of productions, blah, blah, blah, clearly there aren't the forces/numbers needed to organize a democratic victory, while simultaneously the ascendance of the anti-democratic far right points up the need to tackle usher in a democratic stage here as well.
Joel Wendland
