delinking

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 30 08:35:38 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi, quoting Patrick Bond:


>That commitment has already begun to take on international
>proportions through New Social Movements, Michael Lowy suggests:
>
>Militant trade-unionists, left-wing socialists, de-Stalinized
>communists, undogmatic Trotskyists, unsectarian anarchists, are
>seeking out the paths to renewal of the proletarian internationalist
>tradition ... Concurrently, new internationalist feelings are
>becoming visible in social movements with a global perspective, like
>feminism and environmentalism, in antiracist movements, in
>liberation theology, in associations devoted to human rights and to
>solidarity with the third world ... It is from convergence between
>renewal of the socialist, anticapitalist and anti-imperialist
>tradition of proletarian internationalism -- ushered in by Marx in
>the Communist Manifesto -- and the universalist, humanist,
>libertarian, environmentalist, feminist, and democratic aspirations
>of the new social movements that can and will arise
>twenty-first-century internationalism.71

Well, exactly. What does this passage have to do with "delinking"? It's a relinking, or a new kind of linking from the capitalist kind. It doesn't seem to have much to do with "national sovereignty," which, as Patrick's frequently cited models (Smith's Rhodesia and apartheid SA) show, has often abominable associations.

Doug



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