Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:36:26 +1000 (EST)
From: billbartlett-AT-vision.net.au (Bill Bartlett)
Subject: Re: AUT: strategies? THINK FIRST


W.W. Patterson wrote:

>In some of the talk I have read about "strategies" and "networking"
>perhaps I can be so bold as to try to clarify some things.
>
>First, we must be at least as organized and politically rutheless
>as the corporations. Second, while corporations are networking,
>they do it with strict top-down control. Third, on Strategy,
>please can we return to the master and away from the
>academic bull.> Vladimir Ilich Lenin:
>
>"A more powerful enememy can be conquered only be exerting
>the utmost effort and by necessarily, most carefully,
>cautiously, solicitiously, and skillfully taking advantage of
>every 'rift', even the smallest, among the enemies, of every
>antagonism of interest among the bourgeoisie within ...
>Those who have not understood this have
>not understood a particle of Marxism, or of scientific contemporary
>socialism in general."
>
The flaw in this is that the capitalist class is NOT an enemy more powerful
than the working class. We occupy the machinery of production and we are
also numerically more powerful. The above strategies are an excellent
description of how our rulers maintain supremecy over us, despite this.

Unlike them we do not need subterfuge, merely unity (and purpose), to
prevail. A revolution by devious means is not a revolution of the working
class, because you cannot have unity behind a secret strategy.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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