>>> Hugh Rodwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/23/99 04:20AM
What the history of the 20th century has shown us is the paramount
importance of politics, social will, in this.
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Why, finally, should the political sphere dominate today when basic Marxism
contends that the economic sphere is primary?
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So at the present stage in world economic development, what is necessary on
the material economic basis of the forces of production is a new system of
economic relations. This is the primacy of economics. But the economic
system won't be changed unless it's done consciously (otherwise we get a
spontaneous meltdown into barbarism), and the only conscious means
available to us are politics. This is the primacy of politics.
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Charles: This primacy of politics for Marxists is not so hard to believe. Lenin had to
argue against vulgar materalist, trade unionism plain and simple in _What is to Be
Done ?_ The working class must not confine its attention to struggles at the point of
production, but world politics, precinct politics, taking state power.
CB
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