Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 22:36:47 +0200
From: Jean-Luc Gautero <jgautero-AT-hermes.unice.fr>
Subject: Re: M-I: Welcome to the Sunshine State!


Antonio Mota wrote:

>Isn't the class-strugle a thing of the past, shouldn't reallity nowadays
>>require other kinds of struggle against
>capitalist/imperialist/colonialist >forms of exploitation?
>Can this be a marxist position? Or at least a post-marxist one?

I think this could not be neither a marxist position nor a post-marxist
one, rather a pre-marxist one. For Marx, IMO, division of labor is the root
of human alienation, and the struggle of the proletariat can destroy this
alienation because its ground is the economic ground where division of
labor, and alienation, come from. If you substitute to class-struggle an
other kind of struggle (racial, national, and so on...), you may perhaps
soften capitalism, or replace it with an other kind of alienation, but you
can never reach a true human society (I don't want to say that we have not
to fight racialism, colonialism, sexism and so on, but that these struggles
are not sufficient).

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