Well, I stuck that in for a bit of flavour. Honestly, considering the
eco-dynamic of the crash, this "how do we get there" will be the main
question we must be able to deal with when "we" have *grasped the power* to
be able to determine a new course. In the mean time, my vague hypotheses
include a non-industrial model for building up the productive forces as
needed, but that all these matters can only take place globally, since the
"periphery" can no longer industrialise sanely. With that dynamic, power
becomes the key.
So how do we do that?
THE question.
Macdonald
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Woodford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [CrashList] Re: Reforms and falling short
> Yeah, fine. . But Lenin was interested in dealing with the question: How
do we
> get therer from here?
> And put another way, as far as Trotsky's case goes, "Everybody talkin'
'bout
> Heaven ain't going there."
>
> Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "TAHIR WOOD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > The best solution is the one that can base itself most
> > > firmly on this principle and on this principle only: Each
> > > according to his or her work.
> > >
> > > When we have developed a better type of human being we can
> > > take it further from there.
> > >
> > > Tahir
> > >
> > While I'm not a Trotskyist by any means, I provide this and a link for
> > further speculation:
> >
> > Trotsky, "The Revolution Betrayed":
> >
> > The first section, entitled "Social Structure", concludes with these
words:
> > "In the Soviet Union, the principle of socialism is realized: From each
> > according to his abilities to each according to his work." This inwardly
> > contradictory, not to say nonsensical, formula has entered, believe it
or
> > not, from speeches and journalistic articles into the carefully
deliberated
> > text of the fundamental state law. It bears witness not only to a
complete
> > lowering of theoretical level in the lawgivers, but also to the lie with
> > which, as a mirror of the ruling stratum, the new constitution is
imbued. It
> > is not difficult to guess the origin of the new "principle." To
characterize
> > the Communist society, Marx employed the famous formula: "From each
> > according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." The two
parts
> > of this formula are inseparable. "From each according to his abilities,"
in
> > the Communist, not the capitalist, sense, means: Work has now ceased to
be
> > an obligation, and has become an individual need; society has no further
use
> > for any compulsion. Only sick and abnormal persons will refuse to work.
> > Working "according to their ability" -- that is, in accord with their
> > physical and psychic powers, without any violence to themselves -- the
> > members of the commune will, thanks to a high technique, sufficiently
fill
> > up the stores of society so that society can generously endow each and
all
> > "according to their needs," without humiliating control. This two-sided
but
> > indivisible formula of communism thus assumes abundance, equality, an
> > all-sided development of personality, and a high cultural discipline.
> >
> > [full portion of the article available at:]
> >
> >
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Other/Trotsky/Archive/1936-Rev/ch10.htm#ch1
> > 0-1
> >
> > ================
> > Macdonald Stainsby.
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