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On 4/23/2010 9:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I've only browsed in this thread, and read carfully a couple of Mark's > posts. I would just like to remark that THE Party as a political > sstrategy is about as archaic as The British Square as a military > strategy. > > Argue all you want that there SHOULD be A Party -- a waste of breath. It > simply won't happen The struggle will be carried on my a miscellandy of > groups, some national, some local, some temporary coalitions, etc. > Debate over THE roee ofTHE Party is simply a mildly amusing joke. > > Carrol "The struggle will be carried out". What 'struggle' is this and when will it be 'carried out'? Now? A miscellany of groups 'struggling' against a miscellany of injustices. As if made to order by a ruling class that believes itself immortal for an impotent working class: 'At the same time, and quite apart from the general servitude involved in the wages system, the working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves the ultimate working of these everyday struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto: “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword: “Abolition of the wages system!" ' ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
