H-m-m-m-m-m, well, yes, it does seem that at least one of us is taking Marx out of
context here. I specifically recall Marx saying that although it could not provide by
itself the resolution of the class struggle that capitalism creates for workers, that
collective organization of labor could serve as a temporary brake on the the process
of ultimate pauperization of the proletariat, and therefore needed to be understood as
a self-defensive reflex of the workers. He was also a champion of keeping the
standard of living of the working class as high as possible in the interim, since a
totally pauperized working class tends to be a totally demoralized one. Perhaps "bon
moun" would like to correct my recollection here, or introduce some Marx of his own to
refute it, (or keep his peace).
Peace,
Ken
>Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 07:42:37 -0400
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: bon moun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>At 04:29 PM 7/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Ken, you state the case succintly..... immigrants must be stopped from
>>arriving, otherwise all us US workers are going straight to Hell. And
>>you quote the Book of Marx to do it!
>
>
>Of course, it's important to point out that Ken took Marx completely out of
>context to state a bastardized version of the very economism that Marx,
>Engels, Lenin, etc, denounced as incomplete consciousness combined with
>opportunism. Communism is not a trade union.
>
>
>
>"If insurrection is an art, its main content is to know how to give the
>struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
>
> -Vo Nguyen Giap
>
>
>
>"Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
>all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
>must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
>processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
>
> -Eleanor Burke Leacock
>
>
>
>"Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
>transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
>motivation."
>
> -Ernesto "Che" Guevara
>
>
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