Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:24:33 +0100 From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> Subject: M-TH: [fwd]AUSTRALIAN WHARFIES PRESAGE WORLD REVOLUTION! Peter Waterman, the globalist, on what seems to be (hard to tell from this piece) the impossibility of revolution or socialism, or even getting beyond struggles for wages and conditions. From Labor-List. (Sorry about the heading -- it's his not mine.) Cheers, Hugh _________________________ Under a torrent of Marxist analysis, I now realise the error of my ways. Why didn't I realise it? It must be due to my low level of revolutionary awareness. Possibly my petty bourgeois, spontaneist, centrist, bureaucratic, background? The World Revolution in Coming - as demonstrated by the wages and conditions strike of the ............ (fill in this space as appropriate) workers! If not today, then tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then the day after. If not in Australia, then in...er...Russia, Bolivia, South Africa. It will begin in a weak link in the capitalist chain and then reproduce itself into a permanent internationalist revolution, bringing about a Socialist World Republic. All it needs is ten followers of my particular, but correct, Marxist vanguard party in every workplace, in every continent. Oh, and also in cyberspace - which provides special opportunities for us to speak to ourselves without too much interference by actual Wharfies. These 10 will be able to liberate from their false, short-term, economistic, consciousness, the wharfies, the Russian miners, the Bolivian coca farmers, the South African street-traders. The only problems are 1) the trade-union bureaucracy, 2) the labour aristocracy, 3) the petty-bourgeois feminists,the single-issue ecologists, the liberal humanrightsists, the tribalist regional autonomists, ethnic separatists, 4) all the other FALSE vanguard Marxist revolutionary parties with THEIR ten members. Never mind. I am patient. I can wait till the short-term economistic, nationalist (occasionally racist) working class recognises, finally, its long-term general interest. If not this time, next time. If not next time, the one after. I cannot be proven wrong, however many times I have been proven `wrong' in the past and however many times I may been proven `wrong' in the future. This truth cannot be disproven by 150 years of merely empirical evidence. There is always an explanation for failure. It is always the same explanation. There is One Truth. There is One Chosen People. There is One Bearer of the Message. There is One Paradise. For Mine is the Truth, The Power and the Glory.. The Second Coming of the Revolutionary Proletariat is at Hand! Amen. pw PS. Can someone please inform the Australian wharfies about all this? `Communication is the nervous system of internationalism and solidarity' (Jose Carlos Mariategui, Lima, c.1923) Institute of Social Studies, Jacob v.d. Doestr. 28 POB 29776 2518XN The Hague 2502LT The Hague Netherlands. Netherlands Tel: +31-70-4260-579, Tel: +31-70-363-1539 Fax: +4260-799. [answering machine] Emb: waterman-AT-iss.nl. waterman-AT-antenna.nl And the Global Solidarity website: http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/ --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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