Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:57:31 -0500 From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespass-AT-swbell.net> Subject: Re: Communist programme: mini/maxi and trans... At 04:43 PM 10/1/00 +0100, Karl Carlile wrote: <snip> >To bifurcate demands into minimum or maximum is to change the character of >these very >demands and thereby eviscerate them of their inherent revolutionary >dynamic. The >metamorphosis of the demands of the working class into minimum and maximum >forms >changes the context in which these demands exist. It is to >opportunistically shift the >struggle from a revolutionary context to a reactionary >context. Consequently the >struggle over the character of the demands of the working class movement >is a struggle >over the context in which the struggles of the working class are to take >place. It is >a struggle concerning the programmatic basis of their struggles. The only >demands >supported by the communist programme are communist demands. Minimum and >maximum >demands are ideological constructs designed to disarm the working class >movement. Holy shit, Karl, you better hope the proletarians never see this, they'd string you up with your own dictionary for using that language. Now honestly, couldn't you say whatever it was you said by using the words of real humans? cheers, (I think) scott -------------------------------------------------------------- "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain Piston Ported Vespas: http://www.piston-ported.homepage.com words http://www.geocities.com/vespass/words.html ST Louis Secular Homeschooler's Co-Op http://www.stlsecularhomeschool.org -------------------------------------------------------------
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