In a message dated 1/25/2011 7:44:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, waistli...@aol.com writes:
Class is a big word and not simply a power relation. In say 1951, the Soviet working class was an industrial working class but not an industrial proletariat. Sure, everyone referred to the Soviet working class as the "Soviet proletariat" because of its position as shock brigade, but there was no class of capitalist in the Soviet Union in 1951 to cast the workers as proletariat. There exists a class of industrial workers. This class of industrial workers is different from the class of manufacturing workers. The industrial working class is the product of the industrial revolution. The proletariat is the product of and expression of property relations: bourgeois private property rather than feudal property. The property signature of class OR the material form of class which encases the property relations casting the proletariat as "proletariat" is subjective or to be precise "subjective/objective." Private property flows from subjective human attributes. The property signature of class - proletariat, does not arise out of the electro-mechanical quality of productive forces defining the meaning of industrial. Revolution A REVOUTION is a complex contradictory process. It is composed of interconnected stages of development, each possessing its own objective or material and subjective or human/intellectual side. A brief outline of these stages is 1). Qualitative transformation in the means of production. The change in the means of production force, 2). A "revolution" in society or social revolution. The "revolution" is the actual process creating new classes in society corresponding to new means of production and its new social organization of labor. The social revolution is crowned by; 3) a "political revolution" or insurrection wherein representatives of one of the contending classes seize power and social reconstruction begins. What open a revolutionary period is qualitative changes in the means of production, which at a certain stage produces social consequences compelling society to leap forward to a new organization of labor or die. Non-revolutionary periods are all the quantitative boundaries a system goes through before qualitatively new means of production begin to disrupt the unity of the mode of production. Books can be written on each of the points above. Waistline. _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
