lbo-talk-digest V1 #7391

[ChrisD(RJ)]

There are places in the world where you'll see it. In countries which had
strong left traditions and can turn out respectable numbers of voters for
communisy parties, even France, where the PCF is in steep declione, you can
still turn out a mass rally that looks like 1930. But that doesn't mean, by
any honest or objective measure, that Marxism in France is in good shape. As
for the KPRF, with its red-brown nationalist socialist politics, that's not
what anyone here means by the revival of Marxism. I hope. jks

 "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> wrote:At 4:24 PM -0800 2/9/03,
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>But Marxism as a movement, hammers and sickles, red flags and 
>banners of Marx and Lenin, workers singing The Internationale -- 
>that's over.
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Jesus, you've obviously never seen a KPRF rally in Moscow.
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The KPRF has nationalist members, but it's a stretch to call their politics
"national socialist." A lot of the labelling of the KPRF as "red-brown"
comes from the 1996 propaganda campaign, when Yeltsin was trying to argue
that the only alternative to him was the evil "red-browns."

Not very Marxist, though. They put on a mean rally. Gorbachev spoke on last
May Day's, clutching his red carnation.