Subject: Re: M-I: Goodbye From: jschulman-AT-juno.com (Jason A Schulman) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:34:09 EDT On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Amrohini J. Sahay wrote: > "working class" (because that is all it is for them), to marginalize >a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary move, has appealed to a most backward >form of trade-unionism. It is in such a context that one should take >Jonathan Flanders's response to Christi-Ann: He asks her to tell us more >about her EXPERIENCE! Instead of critiquing her for her economism -- she >simply wants a "better" life under capitalism and has no interest in > revolutionary work. Christi said "we" -- meaning the working class you ostensibly wish to see overthrow capitalism -- wants such a life. Which they do. > She is the exemplary instance of what Lenin >called a practitioner of "economism". If Christi-Ann ..., indeed wants >different working conditions, then she should aim not at simply shorter hours, >etc., for herself and others but participate in overthrowing the regime of > wage-labor. Christi is quite aware of the need to end captialism. > Jonathan Flanders by his "tell us about your >EXPERIENCE" shows that he has no coherent understanding of labor (the fact that >he himself HAS EXPERIENCE does not mean that he KNOWS the meaning of >that EXPERIENCE. I see the actual lives of working class people are of no interest to you, oh self-appointed guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy. -- Jason ______ "Radicalism in the United States has no great triumphs to record; but the sooner we begin to understand why this is, the sooner we will be able to change it." Christopher Lasch (1932-95), *The Agony of the American Left* (1969). --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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