File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0106, message 155


From: "Peter J. Havas" <Zaphod-AT-noos.fr>
Subject: AUT: Re: Re: Stagism?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:09:59 -0700


Commie00

Malraux contended that being proletarian was a will. I believe this.
Certainly all of us (with few exceptions) are workers of one type or the
other. What I am taking issue with is the automatic organization of workers
in a "class" structure, (which I feel itself is artificial) dubbed the
"proletariat". It seems to me that such an identity is as contradictory as
nationality.
Even in communist society there are workers. Why is this status not "forced"
upon
them as well in this social context? If, indeed, the will of the proletariat
was not to be so, the end result of revolution would the elimination of the
working "class" instead of the pan-geographic perpetuation of it. I feel that
the object of revolution is lost by this concentration on "class", but freely
admit, at present I have no adequate substitute.

Outside the nationalist sphere, a good model would be collective tribalism:
All members performing their functions within the social structure, to the
exclusion only of other tribes.

Peter




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