***** In A Dream of John Ball, a meditation on the failed English Peasant's Rebellion of 1381, the 19th century communist, poet, and designer William Morris wrote:
I pondered these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they want, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
Is this not the situation of Marxists today?
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Latin American leftists have a way of naming movements after icons of their revolutionary, patriotic, and anti-imperialist traditions: e.g., Sandino, Zapata, and Bolivar. They have many usable pasts, which, enriched by (but not at all limited to) a diverse Marxist tradition, continue to provide a vital idiom of struggle. -- Yoshie
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