Dogmatism is the enemy. That’s the lesson we can learn from contrasting the practical way in which Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution has built socialism, with the uncompromising and out-of-touch way the conventional U.S. left believes it can build socialism. Nicaragua is such a good example to use for showing dogmatism’s incompatibility with any U.S. revolution both because of its geographical proximity to where we are; and because it has a socialist government that takes stances which show just how necessary it can be to act flexibly as a Marxist. Namely the stances that Nicaraguan socialism should be represented by Christianity; and that social conservatism is the policy which socialist Nicaragua should be defined by.
This is how I have felt for a long time. We can't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. It's juvenile to scoff at every living example of socialism just because it's not true communism. This is just an excuse for our own inaction. None of these ultraleft critics would do a better job in power. In fact they'd be downright incompetent and likely far more repressive than the sandinistas.
This is how I have felt for a long time. We can't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. It's juvenile to scoff at every living example of socialism just because it's not true communism. This is just an excuse for our own inaction. None of these ultraleft critics would do a better job in power. In fact they'd be downright incompetent and likely far more repressive than the sandinistas.