On 5/9/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Politics under capitalism, in my view, is rarely polarized between
>Chavezes and their enemies, Good vs. Evil.
>
>Between conflicts like Mugabe vs. MDC and contests like Chavez vs.
>Rosales, there's a great deal of distance, and in that distance, much
>of politics happens in countries where states still exist, and there
>are formations like the PT, the AKP, the CPI(M), and the like that are
>neoliberal but have mass support to various degrees, so those to their
>left ought to pay attention to nuances. Remember the CPN(Maoist)
>didn't win on its own -- it made alliances with parliamentary Marxists
>against whom they had been fighting and then won together.
>--
>Yoshie
I have no idea what you mean by paying attention to nuances. I
believe that the PT and the CPI(M) (as well as the ANC, Sinn Fein,
and the government of China) pursue anti-working class policies. I
agree with the kind of attacks on them that can be found in
Counterpunch and in the magazine that employs you
"Attacks" on this or that, however sharp, don't do much, unless they
come with at least attempts to build viable alternatives to the
objects of "attacks."
--
Yoshie
