So, 'we' study V deeply, decide that it is such and such. Assume that assumption is accurate.
What the fuck do we do with it?
What is usually done with it is a load of crap stemming from a sectarian view of what a "real" revolution would look like.
Or perhaps we can use it to write a seminar paper.
The archetype as it were for this sort of thing is to be found in the 'directions' Trotsky cabled to Spain giving day-to-day instructions to the Trotskyists there.
Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Eric Beck Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 9:34 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] On Venezuela's Cooperative "Revolution"
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> What we have in Venezuela and some other nations is a form of dual power.
> Criticism from outside of this kind of situation is simply meaningless.
How to put this delicately? How about this: what a load of crap. *Every* place has a form of dual power. It doesn't get born because of some great popular socialist consciousness or state-induced processes. How it manifests itself varies, and obviously perspectives on it would and should differ depending on location, but saying the outside--as if capitalism hasn't erased outsides--can't know the situation is silly. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk