Morales - Our Struggle is Against US Imperialism

How many thought that comrade President Evo Morales, elected President of Bolivia on December 18th, would stay at home and not be heard of for a while? Instead, he went quickly overseas to Cuba, and now wants to arrange visits to other countries including South Africa, Brazil, and China. Nor is he shy to say exactly what is on his mind. He speaks boldly and clearly, simply and briefly. He names the culprits and he says “I believe only in the power of the people.” This is a lovely man. This is a man worthy of the position of the first indigenous South American head of state, in the first South American “Uhuru”, after, as he says, not 350, but 500 years! More than one and a half centuries earlier Karl Marx was writing the series of articles (for a magazine in New York) which became the book “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”. Here is an extract. It is the first of our occasional “Revolutionary Classics” for 2006. Links (2): 1. Morales, Our Struggle is Against US Imperialism, Counterpunch (2 pages) 2. 1852, Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (16 pages)