Morales to go on hunger strike

[Coggeh]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0409/breaking67.htm

Bolivian President Evo Morales went on a hunger strike today to demand Congress pass an electoral law that could make it easier for him to win control of the legislature in December's general election.


Wtf? ....

[dez]

Morales is going on a hunger strike to press for more representativity for the people of bolivia, instead of more representative for areas in which the bourgeoise elite rules.

What is so strange about that?

[Lord Testicles]

Morales is going on a hunger strike to press for more representativity for the people of bolivia, instead of more representative for areas in which the bourgeoise elite rules.

What is so strange about that?

I guess it's just a bit of an unconventional tactic for a head of state to use.

[redflag32]

Maybe he is drawing inspiration from the Irish Republicans who gained so much from this tactic?

[Coggeh]

I dont disagree with his motives just , his tactics ... blackmailing the bourgeois , why not just bring about socialism already .

[redflag32]

I dont disagree with his motives just , his tactics ... blackmailing the bourgeois , why not just bring about socialism already .

Good point.

[Wanted Man]

I dont disagree with his motives just , his tactics ... blackmailing the bourgeois , why not just bring about socialism already .
Aye, after all socialism can be "brought about" by one man and his government. :rolleyes: It's a fact that Morales is a reformist leader, if he just "dictates" socialism, next thing you'll know there will be "student protests" against the horrible communists or a military coup. Chávez got that treatment for less.

[dez]

I guess it's just a bit of an unconventional tactic for a head of state to use.

I think some people in bolivia disagree on this head of state deal.
Notably, the said bourgeoise elite.
Some time ago he couldnt even go to some areas.


Aye, after all socialism can be "brought about" by one man and his government. :rolleyes: It's a fact that Morales is a reformist leader, if he just "dictates" socialism, next thing you'll know there will be "student protests" against the horrible communists or a military coup. Chávez got that treatment for less.

I think it would be a coup made by civilians.
Rightwinged businessmen and their militant neofascist organization.

[pastradamus]

Aye, after all socialism can be "brought about" by one man and his government. :rolleyes:

....and of course he is one man. Nobody actually supports him :rolleyes:

[Patchd]

Aye, after all socialism can be "brought about" by one man and his government. :rolleyes: It's a fact that Morales is a reformist leader, if he just "dictates" socialism, next thing you'll know there will be "student protests" against the horrible communists or a military coup. Chávez got that treatment for less.

No but that's the point Coggeh was making I believe, many here support Chavez for the same reasons that he is "progressive" or a "friend of the workers" and cheer them on when they perform publicity stunts like this in the name of the workers.

But simply, there is no point in supporting either Morales or Chavez, they're not Socialists/Communists/Anarchists, and had they been, they could simply use their position in power to destroy the current system, abolish capital and install workers' control within society. The fact that they'd rather keep the system, but make it a little nicer through these publicity stunts serves to show us that both Morales and Chavez are a bunch of idiots.

[Hoxhaist]

This is his opportunity to make the differences between the bourgeoisie and those like Morales who are sympathetic to building socialism in Bolivia. If he can bring the peasants and urban workers together with the military Morales can be unstoppable in beginning to build socialism in Bolivia.

[h0m0revolutionary]

This is his opportunity to make the differences between the bourgeoisie and those like Morales who are sympathetic to building socialism in Bolivia. If he can bring the peasants and urban workers together with the military Morales can be unstoppable in beginning to build socialism in Bolivia.

I'd have more faith if the people of South America were not locked in a battle against these tyrants. These 'left-wing' regimes who restrict their freedom to associate and organise, usurp the power of unions and democratic structures into a rigid centralised state.

I'd rather my class were not oppressed by Party states alledging to act in their interests.

[Dimentio]

This is his opportunity to make the differences between the bourgeoisie and those like Morales who are sympathetic to building socialism in Bolivia. If he can bring the peasants and urban workers together with the military Morales can be unstoppable in beginning to build socialism in Bolivia.

You marxist-leninists-hoxhaists almost sound so funny when you are typing. :)