Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:49:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: AUT: Marx & Organization


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, cwright wrote:

> One thing about Marx was that he always remained convinced that the workers'
> actions would always race ahead of their consciousness, but that he had a
> role to play in critiquing ruthlessly all of the ideological rubbish that
> stood in the way of the workers becoming conscious of the meaning of their
> actions.  Marx was not proposing to tell the workers what to do, how to
> organize, etc.  His battles with other people were about workers' autonomy
> from organizations that thought they had all the answers.  For Marx, the
> working class had the answers.

This is my approach to working within worker's organizations. I believe
the workers have the answers to their own problems, and must be the ones
who liberate themselves.  Heck, if Marx in being critical of
organizational models joined an organization like the 1st International,
certainly anarchists can do the same thing!

 -JH



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