Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link , Pull the Whole Chain Forward

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
Comrades,   The following article was published by LRNA in their periodical Rally, Comrades, Vol 20, Edition 1 of Jan/Feb 2010 which is their present edition:   Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward We are entering into an epoch of social revolution, a time of crisis. The very

[MLL] “New Trade Union Initiative”.

2010-03-25 Thread kamran abbas
“New Trade Union Initiative”. Below is the link of article of Manzoor Ahmed Razi Chairman of Railway Workers Union open line, published in monthly “Awami jamhooriat” regarding his visit to India Mumbai in Labor Conference organized by “New Trade Union

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Yes.   The LRNA articles and editorials are excellent.   I was a member of the League and my struggle with them was this:  What role does the old proletariat play in this revolution; that is, that section of the class not dispossessed, still working and creating surplus value, is it symbiotic

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/24/2010 9:02:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mark1scot...@yahoo.com writes: LRNA's editorials and/or articles are very good Comment Not withstanding my personal opinions and visions, these are the folks I have worked with more than less for the past 40 years. LRNA

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/25/2010 4:28:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, frankied...@yahoo.com writes: Yes. The LRNA articles and editorials are excellent. I was a member of the League and my struggle with them was this: What role does the old proletariat play in this revolution; that is,

[MLL] Health Care fight in real time

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
(quoting from another author) I think the very small and powerless far left in this country went way off the deep end in calling for the defeat of the health care bill. The basic argument is that it still leaves the insurance industry and pharmaceutical industry in the catbird seat,

Re: [MLL] Health Care fight in real time

2010-03-25 Thread George G
Dear Waistline, I have a quick question that is somewhat separate from the debate going on on the list. According to one summary I read of the Obama health care bill (actually of the Senate's proposed changes), there would be a 40% tax on hiigh-cost insurance plans worth more than $10,200 for

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward/Unity/Glossary

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/25/2010 4:28:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, frankied...@yahoo.com writes: The question becomes: who will fight in the interest of the exploited class.. or do we believe that it's becoming extinct. Surely, the capitalist, in their introduction of robotics, SEEM

Re: [MLL] Health Care fight in real time

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/25/2010 7:40:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, geor...@micronetix.net writes: According to one summary I read of the Obama health care bill (actually of the Senate's proposed changes), there would be a 40% tax on hiigh-cost insurance plans worth more than $10,200 for

[MLL] Auto workers

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
Check out the People's Tribune issue of May 2009 Vol. 36, No. 5 _http://www.peoplestribune.org/PT.2009.05.0.html_ (http://www.peoplestribune.org/PT.2009.05.0.html) Auto Workers Woes Symbolize Struggle Ahead for Everyone. WL. ___

Re: [MLL] Auto workers

2010-03-25 Thread George G
Dear Waistline, I am not sure whether this link was in reply to my question. Anyway, I checked it out. It had some very interesting material on the increase in productivity and decline in employment in the auto industry, but it did not deal with the question that I asked. Let me explain what

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward/Unity/Glossary

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
Comrades, I think there are some misconceptions all around for sure.  Even I had the same misconception of what was put forward as the new class by LRNA and disagreed with them, however, I do not believe this conception of the new class is at all intended to supersede or in any way make null

[MLL] Labor Produces All Value,The Capitalists Make the Profit

2010-03-25 Thread Marxist Front
* Labor Produces All Value The Capitalists Make the Profit Interesting article : http://www.workingpeoplesvoice.org/wpvv3n1/labor.htm * ___ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or

Re: [MLL] Labor Produces All Value,The Capitalists Make the Profit

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
Comrades, Thank you for this contribution.  A good article. Fraternally Mark Scott From: Marxist Front marxistfr...@yahoo.co.in To: Marxist-Leninist List marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 12:04:24 PM Subject: [MLL] Labor

Re: [MLL] Auto workers

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/25/2010 7:40:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _geor...@micronetix.net_ (mailto:geor...@micronetix.net) writes: According to one summary I read of the Obama health care bill (actually of the Senate's proposed changes), there would be a 40% tax on hiigh-cost insurance

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, We are members of the same group.

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In other words we are member of the same organization. The unity I speak of is unity of action. The reason the League is a League is to win over revolutionaries and the fighting section of the proletariat. This is a diverse lot. I accept “Rally Comrades,” as the final arbitrator of general

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, We are members of the same group.

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
I have read your link and I have read and reread Rally Comrades as well as the Tribune and no where does it advocate your vision of economic communism as an alternative to the accepted concept of socialism.  LRNA clearly advocates socialism as the transitory stage to communism.  The only

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, We are members of the same group.

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
What I am saying is that socialism is still the dialectics of the transition from capitalism as we know it today to the higher stage of communism which is classless society. The reason for the stage of transition known as socialism was clearly defined as the stage of societal development

[MLL] new class or not new class, that is the question.

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Dear comrades, Sorry, but the League is NOT  a Marxist organization although there are Marxist within it,  Unless they have changed back to being Marxist since I was last there.  That is because its politics cannot be called Marxist.  The new class concept, I perceive,  as reactionary. To

Re: [MLL] new class or not new class, that is the question.

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
 Where in Rally Comrades is it stated  that productive capital exists totally independent of speculative  fiance? my comment: Productive capital is separate from speculative  capital.  Speculative  capital is separate from commercial capital.   These capitals are separate but

Re: [MLL] Grasp the Key Link, Pull the Whole Chain Forward

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
WL: Where in any Rally articles does the League call anyone making more than $25,000 conservative? my comment: Honest League members will concur with this statement  as being true, for I have read it numerous times and in fact it was my reason for breaking with the League.   It was said

[MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Why is the New Class Revolutionary? from the Editorial Board  RALLY COMRADES [Excerpt]    .Industrialization brought about a great social revolution in Europe and America; however it did not go far enough and deep enough to bring about the kind of political revolution that

[MLL] Questions answered

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
1. What revolutionary role do workers in any industry earning over $25, 000 / year hold? Lets make this real and take me for example and all my comrades who did 20 to 40 years in auto. We are genuine leaders of the revolutionary tradition and elements of the proletariat. Everyone we

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/25/2010 6:53:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, frankied...@yahoo.com writes: Notice that the working class while antagonistic to feudalism because it was outside that system are merely in contradiction with capitalism since it is inside the system. f580 Comment

Re: [MLL] LRNA, A NEW CLASS: DEFINITION

2010-03-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/25/2010 8:30:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, frankied...@yahoo.com writes: These new strata of workers and this new permanently unemployed are the result of the introduction of electronics into the workplace. They are a new class. my comment: Do I need say anymore?

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
No.  I don't agree with your or LRNA  new class concept.  It is reactionary.   It will provoke antagonistic reaction within the class.  You split them apart, not I.   The dispossessed [and NOT the lumpen], unemployed workers, marginal workers, immigrant workers, part time workers, migrant

Re: [MLL] LRNA, A NEW CLASS: DEFINITION

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Great quote indeed!! These new strata of workers are explained in the quote as on the other hand.  They are potential  new class recruits.   Almost there but not quite. f580 --- On Thu, 3/25/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: From: waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
Comrade WL, You stated in response to Comrade f580: The new class is new because it evolves in relationship to qualitatively new means of production. Where ever and when ever qualitatively new means of production appear in a society rent with class struggle - private property, you  are going

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
OUR' is the workers I march with.  f580 --- On Thu, 3/25/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: From: waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM To: marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu Date:

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Comrade Scott, I think that this point of yours can be taken to a higher logical conclusion, if I may: .it creates the new class in relationship to the new means or mode of production based on the emergence of electronics. There are indeed workers all over the world and here in USA

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
Comrade f580, I am unclear as to how you arrive at the conclusion that LRNA, would or does, consider a worker as reactionary.  I do not like he said/she said arguements and had no intention of relating a conversation I had with a member of the editorial staff that is my best friend, however, I

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Comrade Scott, I quoted here from the LEAGUE,  RALLY COMRADES  the relevant articles defining the new class and its relations with the rest of the proletariat.  I could quote more,  if I need  too.   If the new class is revolutionary because they are outside the system [which they're not]

Re: [MLL] LRNA, WHY THE NEW CLASS IS REVOLUTIONARY... OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM

2010-03-25 Thread Mark Scott
Comrade f580, You stated: If the LRNA considers all sectors of the class, except, perhaps the labor aristocracy, or the labor hacks, as revolutionary, then good for us.  Labor united! I assure you this is their position.  What I am asking for is can you give me the exact article name or link

[MLL] RE-POST

2010-03-25 Thread frankenstein580
Here is the re-post on the INSIDE- OUTSIDE matter.  Would you share your thoughts on this, please.     I asked whether the LEAGUE would deem the INSIDER sector of the working class reactionary being, in my words, that its not prone to overthrow capitalism as the dispossessed would.  Note that