Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 13:34:42 +1100 (EST)
From: billbartlett-AT-vision.net.au (Bill Bartlett)
Subject: Re: AUT: Re:  role of politics


FW CACanny wrote:

>It's interesting to read this discussion of political parties. While the
>collapse of stalinism has left an opening for all of us on the non-leninist
>revolutionary trends,  I am curious to know what these various parties have
>accomplished. As we say in English, the proof is in the eating...
>
>If we looked at success, one would look to revolutionary syndicalism (in a
>broad sense) for the basis of organization, not to the political groups
>mentioned in this discussion. This isn't to slag off the positions of these
>groups, but to raise the question: What position should politics play in
>the class struggle? Revolutionary Syndicalism would say less emphasis on
>politics, more on struggle. It was, compared to the Impossiblists,
>Bordigists, Platformists, etc.  successful.

If we judge by success then we are all failures, the only real success
would be a currently existing socialist society. But I am not arguing that
there should be NO emphasis on struggle, I am arguing against the position
that there should be NO emphasis on politics.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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