Date: 19 Feb 97 01:21:08 EST
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: welfare state + capitals crisis


dear friends,

Bob Malecki's  (BM) latest post on this thread only
exposes his neo-spart  trotskyist trend as being politically 
bankrupt and politically dishonest.

To BM, most  all the current capitalist offensive  
against the workers livlihood can be traced to 
the political  rot and collapse of the  exUSSR 
state capitalist bloc circa 1989-91.
This, in spite of the fact that the current capitalist  offensive
is at least  of 18-20 years old and is also 
part and parcel of capitals nature in the modern imperialist
epoch of capitals cycles of crisis, war , reconstruction..
crisis, war......etc at root for the  more rightist attacks by the
left and right of capital...

Of course, BM says never a peep about the decay of the
 material /economic base of these state capitalist  regimes
because to analyze this  with marxism would expose 
his precious "workers states" as consisting of capitalist
relations to the core and it is precisely the laws of motion
of capital (state caps here) that in the main , undermined
the state cap bloc and lead to its ignominoius collapse.
But building state capitalism against the workers 
is precisely the "trotskyist internationalism" of our BM.

BM is a regular "left" cover for the trend of social democracy
and is in raptures with "its" reforms in parliament even though
social democracy has been  part of the left-bourgeois artillery
since the first world war.
BM, in the main the reforms in the period   even before WW2
were won by workers in struggle in many lands and against 
bourgeois parliaments (or union apparatuses) who in the 
main only grant/press  reforms as a byproduct of the higher tempos
of the class struggles, economic and political together to
get back social control  and keep it..

BMs  asinine remarks embellishing praising  the passing of reform
bills totally overlooked the historical conjuncture in which many of 
these took place ,  the upheaval period of the imperialist war
and the emergence of  imperialist bloc alliances east and west 
in that period.
Also and this is key, BM never mentions that the very distruction
of the capital (and 58 millions lives) and the defeat of the workers
mass struggles  through the WW2 period  and its aftermath gave world
capital a new lease on its parasitic existence,paving the way for
a 3rd cycle of new capital accumulation in the 20th cent. Instead
of exposing the crimes of imperialism , BM , with his state caps, 
can only embellish it . 
Marxist analysis of the material basis of capitals?Why BM will
have none of it and he wills palsy on your brain if you dare be a
marxist and expose all wings of world capital.

BM plays down the bourgeois  war barbarism, because he 
and his spart trend are actually recruiting sergeants for that
war in the west, albeit "critical support"  for imperialist war.
And in the war period, that meant not only  Russian imperialism
but other capitals as well!

To top this  off , BM serves up  his warmed over (perhaps rancid)
trotsky stew of  a 'different" world of a dominant state capitalism
if only the workers (somewhere) would bow down and accept
"trotsyist leaders" as their lords and saviors!
Crisis of leadership he wails! Most demagogue parties 
serve  up this pap all the time-- to dupe and confuse workers.
This is not marxism my friends , this is BMs secular religionism
pure and simple and has nothing to do with any scientific
understanding of how working class consciousness is raised
in the real material world of class antagonisms.


BM is demoralized, so he want to demoralize others with his drivel
about how with the collapse of  his precious state cap bloc
"the central contradiction has been removed in the favor
of imperialism" . Balderdash BM!  If western imperialism 
"'Won', this' victory' is only temporary.  
Imperialisms big powers and their junior 'independent '
partners are now breaking apart  choosing up sides,
colluding for new alliances as well  as trying to rip off  each
 others markets, cheap labor, technology and raw materials
and spheres of influence for troop/sea  deployments. 
Look at the Balkans, Central Africa, Chechnya, South America,
etc.

The working class is growing bigger on a world scale
and the "centers" of monopoly capital  are on the take
back warpath against the workers even in the main 
bastions of  capitals nation states.Anger in the class
is rising, that is why when the chiefs of the Multinationals
met recently in Dovos , Switzerland, they even  invited the
pro wage slavery Intl. Confederation of Free Trade Unions- 
ICFTU  to take their seats at the table .,  The talk was
of how to pervent more workers mass revolts, like
those in France '95, Canada '96 and Korea '97, or is 
BM going to deny this & tell us that the business unions came 
to rake the exploiters over the coals and give us 
the bliss of his  social democratic Keynesian  'solutions"?.

BMs 'analysis"   makes a mockery of marxism.
His is not Bolshevism  but Bullshitivism, BM style.
his level today is not even on the understanding 
of the Prussian general Von Clausewitz  whom
Lenin quoted to expose the reformist charlatans of
 his day in  pointing out that only charlatans or 
 the gullible  would try to separate economics and
 politics . And this is what many of BMs posts do,
if ever they connect the  antagonism  of class struggle  politics and 
economics at all .

Neil








 



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