File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-04-13.095, message 31


Date: 09 Apr 97 22:06:58 EDT
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: SPGB and abolishing money


dear friends,

A couple things can can be clearly culled from the 
exchanges between Lew and Boddhisatva, etc.  on the
possibity of a socialist  classless , moneyless society
 of the future.

In spite of  Lew's/SPGB's outmoded  parliamentarian
approach/illusions  to how workers attain class consciousness
in their  struggle to overthrow capitalist society ( which
also left his  SPGB on the sidelines when the revolutionary
soviets and councils of workers (leading the peasants)
overthew the bourgeois-landlord regime in Russia in 
1917 and held the power for 4 or 5 years before this power 
was decimated from without  and the workers power usurped
 from within). Still,   Lew's clear understanding of the basic 
tenets/goals of Marx's socialism is light years ahead of  most
 of  his critics here  (Boddhisatva, etc) which puts him light
years closer to possibly  being of some assistance  to 
 solving the present  crisis of marxist theory (and practice) 
and of being of some positive value to the proletarian 
cause, present and future.

The so-called  analogies claiming to "refute " Lew's  accurate 
elaborations of the Marxian critique of  money -and wage slavery 
are just preposterous , these included examples of historical 
social systems of class rule and expolitation, slavery, feudalism, etc.
even trumpeting of the wonders of the "market '" of capitalism itself.
These last being not marxism but the long bankrupt nostrums 
of social democrats, lib-labs and state capitalism's supporters.
Please, socialism/communism is a Qualitatively superior type
of social system, not just taking the orders from a new class 
 of elitist expoliters--but the majority running society in their own 
interests.. 

Hrrumph! And  is not socialism the negation of exploitation of 
person by person, is not marxist  revolution to set in motion 
the overturning of ALL exploitative capitalist relations , including
money, waged labor,  the rest of commodity production  thru
workers direct control of society? Is it not to solidify the MATERIAL 
and Social basis  in the transition from  'government over people
to the administration of things"?

And finally , to the present day to day struggles that communists 
must help the workers unite for battle under, to build a re-vamped
mass movement that can bring the collective power of the workers
forward, even as we fight in these, is it not the duty of marxists 
to  "inscribe on their banners --not a fair  days  wage  for a fair days
work, but abolition of the wages system" (Marx)?

For those "marxists" who think this all 'utopian" and the
"plan of dreamers" , then i can only say to them and their
state capitalism and other schemes to gain careers reforming 
capitalist imperialism, that they have learned nothing from the
experiences of the workers cause over the last 70 years. Their 
"socialism from above" is really dead even if they still have
a pulse.

Neil  




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