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>> The government itself is also taking up a hardline position in the class war. . . . After drastically increasing police powers, deporting gypsies, imposing severe restrictions on the right to strike (the so-called "minimal service" laws), they are now using "state of emergency" decrees to force strikers back to work. . . . This has very serious implications. The pension reform revolt (which everybody knows is about the redistribution of wealth and not only the retirement age) is an important moment in France and Europe. << Comment Wow. The social struggle transitions and moves from government to the state, to the degree the state is compelled to intervene. Then sections of the proletariat begin to leap outside the bound of struggle against employers or government to open conflict with the state. This in turn polarizes the state. Jim F. asked of this specific dynamic several days ago. The struggle of the proletariat in a bourgeois republic is by definition a struggle for a more equitable share of the social product (redistribution of wealth) and for greater political liberty, even in its unconscious spontaneous mode. We have our work cut out for us: win the vanguard of the proletariat to the cause of communism; however this cause is articulated in the national theater. WL. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
