RE: [CrashList] FWD: Re: Barnesites, revolutionary parties etc

[TAHIR WOOD]

>>> "James Farmelant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/11 4:59 PM
>>>
the best time for us to deal with
the Crash is before it happens.  To expect that
a progressive social movement will arise after it
occurs to take the inititiative is to my mind
wishful thinking.

This debate about whether particularly bad social conditions
are more or less favourable to socialist revolution has been
going on throughout the twentieth century. For each pole in
the argument there are counter examples. But actually the
more decisive events, e.g. Russia, China, Vietnam, have
occurred when conditions were pretty bad for the people.
This was also true of the French revolution, by the way. 

But, for our purposes, the worst case scenario is surely one
in which the possibility of organisation has itself been
destroyed by immense global catastrophe leaving only those
with the biggest guns the power to control whatever is left
of life supporting resources.

With that prospect in mind no-one should reckon that simply
waiting for events is a revolutionary strategy. The fact is
that revolution always occurs as a conjunction of
'objective' and 'subjective conditions', within an open,
complex and unpredictable system. Trying to pinpoint the
moment of the revolution by reference to the 'objective
conditions' is to revert to mechanistic Kautskyist thought.

Tahir
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            

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