III. COMMUNIST WORK in trade unions is mandatory, demanding recruiting union members and winning them to the cause of communism. The political-ideological tendency of retrogression and "reactionary" in the union movement is based in economic laws and the dialectic of development. Capitalist corporations, unions and Marxist groups alike get stuck in "their old market" - an old economic form, even as the continuing revolution in the means of production "change the market." The inability of the old craft unions to leap to industrial union form is a good example. In the last instance the organization of industrial unionism had to take place outside - external to the old craft unions and their "historic market." Trade unions are important because organized labor impact on the labor movement is a lot greater than the voice of the unorganized mass of proletarians. Communists involved in trade union work follow the union movement evolutionary path and carry out communist work. The first rule of thump is that communists ARE NOT economists - trade unionists. Communists have a vision of society and real time solutions, without sinking to the level of the old anarcho-syndicalist. The wage struggle expresses the contradiction that is the unity of labor and capital as social production. Bonded together as the process of production, both classes struggled over shares of the social product and rights. The roots of economism is the labor-capital bond itself or the wage labor form. IV. When new classes created by new means of production reach a "certain stage of development," class struggle as the struggle for political power becomes increasing immediate. A struggle of classes based in antagonism is different than one based in the contradictions of an expanding system that has not reached the end of it evolution. The attempt at revolt and revolution when American society was not passing through a new revolution in the means of production, but continuing the path of the industrial revolution is different from a period when society is leaping to new productive forces. New class(es) created by qualitatively new means of production stand outside the old production relation. The new class(es) exist and grow in correspondence with growth of new means of production setting the basis for a new social organization of labor or new production relations. The fight of the new class(es) is political demanding capturing and holding state power, as the means to reform society: destroy the old property relation and all the old classes of the old society. Waistline
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