We should recall the lessons of the Nicaraguan and other revolutions. Multi-class alliances create contradictions once the honeymoon stage of easy redistributive reform and social programs reach their limit. Then multi-class alliances begin to collapse because there are fundamental contradictions between distinct class projects and interests.
At that point, a revolution must more clearly define its class project — not just in words or politics but actual structural transformation.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Venezuela: Challenges of 21st century socialism
condensed version from Green Left Online, original from Znet. This is an interview with William I. Robinson, from the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the University of California.