The FI writes:
Thirty dead, more than 439 injured, 3273 arrested, has been the price of
a
popular rebellion by the traditionally unrecognised, ordinary people of
Argentina.
For the first time in our history, a democratically elected government
was
toppled, not by a military coup d'etat but by the direct action of the
working and popular masses.
This action was not a thunderbolt that fell from a peaceful sky. A
multiplicity of struggles, popular actions and activity rejecting the
existing order, paved the way.
Karl: This is incorrect. The popular actions on the streets and
elsewhere are not a rejection of the existing order. To constitute a
rejection of the existing order these masses would have to be
communists. In general they are from communism. They simply want to have
a more reasonable standard of living. They are reformists rather than
communists. They are of the view that capitalism can be reformed into a
system that is more generous to the masses. But this is to misunderstand
capitalism's nature. Accordingly the reformism of these street fighting
masses will reflect itself in their demands and slogans.
For too long there have been attempts by radical lefties to present mass
mobilisation as constituting an offensive against capitalism. This can
only be so when the mass mobilisation expresses a communist as opposed
to a reformist consciousness.
|