On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
> Then why post Amnesty-International PR here?
So the Revolution doesn't need to bother about those silly
irrelevancies like the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize
unions and found Left parties, the freedom to vote for and teach
Marxist ideas, etc.? If you're wondering why ordinary folks
nowadays are totally uninterested in 19th century Marxism, that's only
because we're living in a different century. Peace, bread, land and rural
electrification won't cut it as a revolutionary program anymore;
but export-platform industrialization, food-processing industries and
multimedia culture just might. At least AI has the guts to tell
off comprador bourgeois regimes to their faces and to publicize trade
union struggles throughout the world; but what's the agenda of
the Russian CP nowadays? To sit around and complain about Yeltsin's
arteries? Why aren't they talking about delinking Russia from the
neoliberal economy and relinking it to the EU social democracies?
OK, say a revolution breaks out tomorrow in Moscow and the Right People
take charge. How exactly are you going to install socialism?
-- Dennis