Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Cod

What about the ERP?  Wikipedia has an article on them that I think includes 
links to YouTube stuff on them in Spanish.  they were at the heart of a heated 
faction fight within the trotskyist movement back in the 70s even though had 
summarily split from that at the time.  While they were largely wiped out, 
Shining Path had more success with this strategy in Peru until they too were 
ultimately defeated.  Then again, the demographics of Peru aren't the same as 
those of Argentina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Revolutionary_Army_%28Argentina%29



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Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Cod

Yes, they openly and contemptuously repudiated trotskyism in favor of their 
version of Guevaraism  The view you espouse I think was that of Nahuel Moreno 
and his faction of the PRT, a distinction the Wiki article on the PRT missed.

 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:14:47 -0300
 From: nmg...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: 
 China'shigh speed rail plans
 To: t...@hotmail.com
 
 I have also sent long commentaries on ERP to the list, long years ago.
 
 In a nutshell, ERP was never Trotskyist in any serious sense.
 


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Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-07 Thread nada
I appreciate Nestor's take on the ERP. First time I read anything he 
wrote on this. Santucho...any SWPers here remember if he was the guy who 
showed up at the SWP convention in 1973? At least he was NY I think. 
Very 'hush hush' and all that.

I agree about the ERP's Trotskyism. It was episodic and but they 
certainly were not anti-Trotskyist. They view the world revolution in 
terms of unity of the all the radical workers states: Cuba, N. Korea, 
Vietnam and the armed left in Latin America and South America and the 
4th International in new sort of 5th International opposed to Russian 
style communism.

We have much of their writings translated into English if anyone wants 
to read them. They are quite fascinating to get a handle on how the 
politics of their...revolutionary will...manifested their POV on paper. 
It's our Trotskyism and Armed Struggle section of the ETOL:

http://marxists.org/history/etol/document/argentina/prt/index.htm


David


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Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-07 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
No, my view is not exactly that of Moreno. However, maybe you refer to 
the dispute between the PRT and PST of those times on electoral tactics, 
etc.

Tom Cod escribió:
 Yes, they openly and contemptuously repudiated trotskyism in favor of their 
 version of Guevaraism  The view you espouse I think was that of Nahuel 
 Moreno and his faction of the PRT, a distinction the Wiki article on the PRT 
 missed.
 
 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:14:47 -0300
 From: nmg...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re:
 China'shigh speed rail plans
 To: t...@hotmail.com

 I have also sent long commentaries on ERP to the list, long years ago.

 In a nutshell, ERP was never Trotskyist in any serious sense.


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Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-06 Thread Tom Cod

Why do you say that?  Clearly one can have differences with their tactics and 
strategy, but to say they were not a leftist group or were not to the left of 
Peron seems dubious and sectarian.  Moreover, why then did the Peron regime and 
its successors do so much to repress and kill them?  Surely you don't mean to 
suggest we shouldn't have solidarity with them? By that logic the Weathermen 
were to the right of Nixon? (BTW, there was an excellent three hour interview 
on C-SPAN2 last night with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn)

 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:07:44 -0300
 From: nmg...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet,  not commendable in Argentina 
 Re:China'shigh speed rail plans
 To: t...@hotmail.com
 
 Look, Kosslof, if you think the Montoneros were in any way on Perón´s
 left, as most standard leftists in Arg believe, then you are so
 far away from Marxism that, as I guessed, it is pointless to discuss
 any of these issues with you.


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Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-06 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
Of course we should have given them all our solidarity. But they were
certainly NOT TO THE LEFT OF Perón.

Been explaining this on the list long ago.

When and if I have time again will expand fully in the future.



2009/9/6 Tom Cod t...@hotmail.com:

 Why do you say that?  Clearly one can have differences with their tactics and 
 strategy, but to say they were not a leftist group or were not to the left 
 of Peron seems dubious and sectarian.  Moreover, why then did the Peron 
 regime and its successors do so much to repress and kill them?  Surely you 
 don't mean to suggest we shouldn't have solidarity with them? By that logic 
 the Weathermen were to the right of Nixon? (BTW, there was an excellent three 
 hour interview on C-SPAN2 last night with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn)

 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:07:44 -0300
 From: nmg...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet,      not commendable in Argentina 
 Re:        China'shigh speed rail plans
 To: t...@hotmail.com

 Look, Kosslof, if you think the Montoneros were in any way on Perón´s
 left, as most standard leftists in Arg believe, then you are so
 far away from Marxism that, as I guessed, it is pointless to discuss
 any of these issues with you.


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