Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight (Fwd from Louis Proyect)

2000-08-25 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
Date sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:10:16 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight Louis, I do not think one-liners like this advance the discussion at

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight (Fwd from Louis Proyect)

2000-08-25 Thread A.Wosni
Who has ever claimed that ideological exposure from the sidelines of the class struggle is enough? Of course the Bolsheviks did take an active and leading part in the day to day class struggle, but they were not economists, and they knew that consciousness was the key to a proletarian

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight (Fwd from Louis Proyect)

2000-08-25 Thread Louis Proyect
Who has ever claimed that ideological exposure from the sidelines of the class struggle is enough? Of course the Bolsheviks did take an active and leading part in the day to day class struggle, but they were not economists, and they knew that consciousness was the key to a proletarian

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight (Fwd from Louis Proyect)

2000-08-25 Thread Johannes Schneider
Louis Proyect: What you call consciousness I regard as socialist ideology. In point of fact, revolutions generally take place in advance of acceptance of socialist ideology by the great majority. Louis, I dont think that fact is contested at all. The common misconception of Marxists

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight (Fwd from Louis Proyect)

2000-08-25 Thread Louis Proyect
I dont want to speculate much about the 'ifs' in history, but I doubt there would have been an October uprising without thr previous split of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. By the same token I think its the tragedy of the German revolution that the forces around Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight

2000-08-24 Thread A.Wosni
Dear Nestor, you might not be astonished to hear that I disagree. To me it seems that the fault of the LA-'left' in general and of the pro-Moscow PCs especially was not to have turned against national-bourgeois regimes but to have taken their 'national' character much too seriously and to have

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight

2000-08-24 Thread Louis Proyect
A. Holberg: sometimes only enemy. I'm also in favour of limited tactical alliances with such forces, but these have to include a political fight to warn their popular basis against the upcoming betrayals of their misleaders and to organize the working class for the anavoidable final showdown

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight

2000-08-23 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relaciĆ³n a Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight, el 21 Aug 00, a las 9:21, A.Wosni dijo: Okay, I agree with driving both out. But why not trying to drive out the Milosevic- (and any oither Serb nationalist and hence bourgeois) regime out at the same time. Obviously yiou agree

Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight

2000-08-23 Thread Johannes Schneider
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: What kind of a regime would take power in Yugoslavia if the "Serb nationalist and bourgeois" Milosevic regime (your definition, I hardly can imagine the policemen -that is, the concrete face of the State- of a bourgeois regime cherishing Salvador Allende, as an

[L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight

2000-08-20 Thread Borba100
In a message dated 08/20/2000 7:02:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I would like to ask those on the list who keep on ignoring the difference between 'military' and political support: What will be your position towards the UCK if the prediction made below