NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/misc/activism/progress/6003

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From: [e-mail] (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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"The most recent phenomenon in Central America -- already developed in
other parts of Latin America -- is the tendency to substitute politics
for ideology. The decline of ideology, as dogma or catechism giving
sole explanation to the world, its life and events, opens the way for
politics and political objectives as the matrix for uniting protag-
onists and articulating the political action of distinct groups.
   "In this sense, political groups who, on the one side, represent
marginality and poverty, and on the other side, privilege and wealth,
have concrete and contrasting interests which each will pursue...
[These groups] have not disappeared with the Berlin Wall or the
socialist bloc. However, the junctions between these distinct inter-
ests are now expressed less through dichotomous schemes or ideologies
which define societal divides, than through the contradictions between
specific policies. This is the harbinger of political struggle, not
only in Central America, but also for all of Latin America."
     -Victor Hugo Tinoco

From: Kerry Miller <[e-mail]>


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