[lbo-talk] Re: Klein vs. Gitlin vs. Cooper

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Sat Aug 28 10:57:56 PDT 2004


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Carrol Cox wrote:


> >I would love it if the resistance to the u.s. aggression in Iraq were
> >led by devoted followers of Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, and
> >Mohammad Mossadegh. But it is not up to us, as residents of The Monster,
> >to pick an choose among those who in fact are resisting that aggression.


> So you're now lowercasing "u.s." and capitalizing "Monster"? Is this
> just a keyboard accident (though it's the second time I've noticed
> the l.c. u.s.), or is there some intention behind it?

Tactics were always subordinated to the strategy in the classical marxist framework. Strategy was always based on some larger perspective, e.g. Theory of Imperialism. I suppose this is no longer the case for a large section of the marxist left. Politics is now to be based on worthless historical analogies.

Ulhas



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