tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post1057803645740558443..comments2024-03-09T19:23:22.482-03:00Comments on The RPGPundit: Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica: leftist hero, rejects communist economic theoryRPGPundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-53826506922089157302014-01-07T00:01:53.677-03:002014-01-07T00:01:53.677-03:00So now that you've pointed out that I am talki...So now that you've pointed out that I am talking about of my ass, let me correct my original statement to be europe and the us<br /><br />Out of curiosity, is there an english language version of the PCU constitution somewhere?Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05873440251698488032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-56523230252666780072014-01-06T17:22:04.268-03:002014-01-06T17:22:04.268-03:00No Ivan, you're very wrong. There still are So...No Ivan, you're very wrong. There still are Soviet style communists left, in Uruguay.<br />The Partido Communista del Uruguay, who were a direct 'satellite' organization of the USSR for most of their history, still exists. So do many communist parties, sure, except that the PCU had specifically had the option as to whether to change or not; in the 1990s there was a conference called up by some of their membership, who argued that it was clear that the Soviet model had failed and that the PCU should change focus and disavow that sort of communism at its end goal.<br /><br />The motion resoundingly failed. The PCU enshrined in their constitution that they are STILL absolutely determined to try to establish Soviet-style communism in Uruguay.<br />The PCU (fortunately) has very little popular support, but because their membership trains in how to subvert organizations (with tactics like calling for very sudden meetings, giving long filibusters until enough people leave to give them the majority when a vote is finally called, etc) they actually have enormously disproportional influence in the Unions, in student organizations, and in the Frente Amplio coalition itself, to the point that our current Montevideo city mayor is a nobody from the PCU who because mayoral candidate by a machination of the FA primaries. She's done an utterly shit job, of course, but the institutional left and the FA is forced to defend her now and continue raising the profile of the CPU.<br /><br />That's the kind of idiocy one has to deal with here, which is part of why its so astounding that Mujica has done the kind of things he did. And that he's managed somehow to get anything at all accomplished in spite of everything.<br /><br />RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-65849150314934970102014-01-06T04:15:01.438-03:002014-01-06T04:15:01.438-03:00And heck, the quoted bits are still left of any po...And heck, the quoted bits are still left of any political voice in the US, save people like Bernie SandersWeaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05873440251698488032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-7218549127031320452014-01-06T04:13:51.939-03:002014-01-06T04:13:51.939-03:00So a social democrat basically.
There's basic...So a social democrat basically.<br /><br />There's basically no soviet style communists left.<br />The capital S socialists nowadays basically want something somewhat left of Sweden.Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05873440251698488032noreply@blogger.com