From: "Ben Seattle" <icd-AT-communism.org> Subject: M-NEWS: Links and opinions needed concerning decisive tasks Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:21:14 -0800 ======================================= Links and opinions needed concerning the decisive tasks for rebuilding a genuine communist movement ======================================= To the readers of the Marxism-News list, I need your help. I am working to build discussion on the most important question facing the working class today: "What are the most decisive tasks for rebuilding a genuine communist movement ?" I have recently formulated what I believe are the decisive tasks for communists in the countries of bourgeois democracy--at least in respect to the next decade or so and the coming revolution in digital communications. Since my article is the work of a single person there are bound to be deficiencies. My article is posted on the web and has a section at the bottom of the page which will link to all sincere and serious comments, criticisms or suggestions which discuss in a concrete way *the decisive tasks for rebuilding a genuine communist movement*. Following is a summary of what I have concluded are the decisive tasks: 1) A web-based news service ========================== In the realm of practice the decisive task is the development of a web-based news service that would be open to all trends and created in such a way that no single trend, or group of trends, could exercise effective control over it in such a way as to exclude other trends. This would be accomplished by *not* using copyright protection and instead creating the news service on the basis of simple technical and political agreements that would be enforced by the weight of mass opinion. Such a news service would allow its readers to decide for themselves what topics, authors and trends are of interest--and what would be filtered out by a wide variety of filtering methods. Such a news service would assist in bringing the masses in the countries of bourgeois democracy (as, over the next decade or so, they come on-line) into contact with news and analysis by groups on the left--and would also provide a vehicle for both cooperation and competition between various trends. 2) A clear picture of workers' rule ================================== In the realm of theory the decisive task is the development of a clear picture of how the system of workers' rule can suppress the bourgeoisie *without also* suppressing the working class (and thus paving the way for the domination of a new class of privileged exploiters--as happened in the Soviet Union, China and other "socialist" countries). The communications revolution will itself play a big role in this since under the system of workers' rule--the access of all to the internet will help to ensure that mass democracy prevails against the interests of all privileged sections. Discussion and development of this decisive question is necessary to restore the confidence of workers in the possibility of workers' rule after previous attempts degenerated into police states run by and for the interests of a corrupt ruling elite. Where to find my article: ======================== My article can be found at: www.communism.org (click the link at the top of the page titled: "1917 was the beta version") Ben Seattle ----//-// November 14, 1997
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