From: "steve again" <stopera-AT-operamail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:40:49 +0100
Subject: Re: AUT: class composition links and conversation


Steve

I would certainly agree with some of what John Holloway has to 
say. I'd have some differences too. 

There's a lot that could be said in
response to your mail, but I think I'll take up this at the end:
 
> On the other hand, seeing 'really exisiing' class compositions, and the
> potentialities within them, as the premise and ultime arbiter of political
> projects, still seems sensible to me, as in this line from Tribe of Moles:
> 
> 'organisation is obliged to measure itself day by day against the new
> composition of the class; and must find its political programme only in the
> behaviour of the class and not in some set of statutes '.

What does compostion of the class mean in this sense though? The immediate local (e.g. national) composition? Or composition 
globally or over an implied time period? It seems to be about the
right here right now. But I think it is necessary to take 
a 'global' view that also looks at the class compostion planetwide,
and also tries to integrate the whole of the experience of the 
class over time. This is the 'aspiration to totality' that John mentions. There should be an attempt to 'remember' the behaviour 
of the class at other times, and in different compositions too. 
This does not seem to be implied in the quote above. (But I know 
both you and S, Bologna are also interested in working class and 
radical history, so I think this 'day by day' measuring is perhaps overstated above rather than representative of an 'immediatist' attitude)

cheers
Steve

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