Forgive me in advance if it's too bolshi-sounding. But these have really served to whitewash a more dogmatic commitment to WashCon economics. We've been there and done that. Get them out of the lending business. You were clear on the total- divestment line then.
Reformism now gets in the way.
Socialism in one country is not the programme. This is also the direction that movement strategists like Walden Bello are taking. Yes, sometime in the future, agreed. In the meantime, until a fundamental rebalancing of global poli-econ can be achieved, it's in the interests of the majority of the peoples of the world to sort out their own national bourgeoisies first. As someone once said.