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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/




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