living peoples

Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:40:26 +0300
Ahmet Cakmak (muhtar@escort.net.tr)

Dear Friends, I have sent you 7 short paper. This is the core of my new
left project. Or,it is better to say that these are enough material for
a first round discussion on my project. Let me sum up: My motivation is
: first of all to do something for the living people today,of course by
keeping the sine qua non's of a leftist perspective. I think the first
step can come from the NIC's of Third World. In these countries there is
no obstacle for a social diemocrat-radical left alliance. Even not an
alliance, a unity of left wing social democrats ( that is try to find a
way alternative for current mode of capital accumulation) and radical
left who has common sense. This unity, I believe emerge as a strong
center of gravity for progressive forces. The two main pillar of this
unity are : tecnological leap forward by manage the capital and
democratization ( not for leftists themselves,but for the people and by
taking into consideration their real choices). This strategy also
involves a radical and comprehensive change in education systems, and a
comprehensive and effective birth rate control program ( bases on just
to convince). Of course there should be other programs such as an
emergency program for poverty, a program for transition ext.
I cannot find these kind of solution proposals in Amins 1997 book where
he offers regional blocks. May be the reason is : " in the face of these
crisis-management ideologies and strategies, the intelligentsia ought to
respond with a positive contribution to the crystallization of
alternative proposals offering real solutions to the crisis. I have no
intention of proffering ready-made nostrums.Still, I think it useful to
recapitulate a few basic concepts that could help reshape effective
strategies for resolving the crisis while at the same time preapering
the ground for a people's international, robust enough to deal
effectively with the world-devouring appetite of capital."
As you see, I have a ready-made' one. Everybody must have. We should
think, prepare and discuss 'ready-made' solution proposals like this.
If, as a result of a maturity (discussion) process we can produce a few
proposals,that is if we can reach a few proposals which '
generally-agreed',these will, I believe, be very useful for the leftists
in their process of making their policies. Here I want to stress a
point: It seems to me that the gap between the leftist social scientists
and leftist actioners ( politicians,militants,workers,unionists ext.)
widened. As if,they try to find ways to the problems which they faces ,
and we are dealing with some long-term and abstract problems. Of
course,we will deal with these kind of problems. But this is not our
only 'mission', I think.
Thats all for now. If you are interested in with my ideas, or if you
find it useful to open a debate on them I will try to continue.
Ahmet Çakmak