In an earlier posting Reeve correctly argues that the relationship
between education and progressive movements need not be positive. He
uses the BJP as an example and indicates that BJP's support comes from
the educated middle class. This is only partly true. The middle class
in India is a
Trond: Urban "liberated areas" may not make much sense in a strict
military sense, e.g., in an urban guerrilla war conceived in terms of a
military strategy to seize power in the old Leninist sense, but once we shift
from such one-dimensional notions of war and resituate the notion within
politic
Re my first message on this topic:
I will add one more point which supports a new
liberation war paradigm:
The depopulation of the countryside, and growth of
megacities. You can't have liberated areas in a
meaningful sense in a city. This also underscores the
need of a shift from military strugg
Dear Reeve, What are you doing on a bb for economists? John Adams.
P.S. Is the BJP really from the group you say?> GFreetings from Boston
in any case.
Trond: As you might guess, if you saw my posting back in February on "The
Chiapas Uprising: The Future of Class Struggle in the New World Order", I
largely agree with what you have written. I think the EZLN strategy has
always been fundamentally political and that Marcos has been quite honest
whe
Among some interesting comments from Trond Andresen on the future
of progressive political movements:
> - Increased in (the mean) education level and literacy. Today we
> have a lot of people in poor countries with a university
> degree, starving. That was not the case 50 years ag
Some reflections after a Chiapas program on Norwegian TV, including a
recently made interview with "subcommandante Marcos":
It seems to me that if the media and the international network of
solidarity and human rights watch groups remove their interest from
Chiapas, then the Mexican army will mov
