Cde VC, If Lenin lived this very day...what would he say about the Bolivarian Revolution principles...a revolution through election in three different Latin Americal states?
Most kind regards Xoli Dlabantu On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, DomzaNet <[email protected]> wrote: > > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D4UK2kWf5ik/S3VAbL8sfmI/AAAAAAAAB8A/oGeJo_WHdwo/s1600-h/LeninBust.jpg> > > > *Lenin against Syndicalism* > > *"Demagogues are the worst enemies of the working class" - Lenin* > > This programme of political education texts is presently following the “* > Basics<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/communist-university/web/basics---index> > *” course, which is the first of eight “*Generic > Courses<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/communist-university/web/cu-generic-courses-full-list-of-downloadable-textstexts> > *” that are all accessible from the CU’s *home > page<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Communist-University> > * and from the *SACP web site <http://www.sacp.org.za/>*. Please see > yesterday's post, called > "*Vanguard!<http://domza.blogspot.com/2010/02/vanguard.html> > *", for instructions as to how to obtain the texts in hard copy from *Jetline > Print on Demand <http://www.jetline.co.za/>*. > > These Generic Courses are designed for self-organised Freirean study > circles, meeting on a regular and presumably weekly basis without an outside > lecturer. So, there is a main text for each week. This week, our main text > has been “*Worker Solidarity and > Unions<http://sadtu-media-releases.googlegroups.com/web/1106%2C+Worker+Solidarity+and+Unions%2C+MIA%3B+Meetings%2C+Hannington.doc?gda=ppuhWXsAAADO5_tBHBXARP4AsX6lmYOousUXbRQGDsdiVmcGgkfFTWqIYeWP4QVHu5dm91rjuvG8tEC0BPEnFlA6fT3p9guJY4azGvB-4QtnhowQyXEt2ho1ks4tjyO_q> > *” from MIA, combined with Procedure of Meetings, based on Wal > Hannington’s “*Mr > Chairman<http://sadtu-media-releases.googlegroups.com/web/1106%2C+Worker+Solidarity+and+Unions%2C+MIA%3B+Meetings%2C+Hannington.doc?gda=ppuhWXsAAADO5_tBHBXARP4AsX6lmYOousUXbRQGDsdiVmcGgkfFTWqIYeWP4QVHu5dm91rjuvG8tEC0BPEnFlA6fT3p9guJY4azGvB-4QtnhowQyXEt2ho1ks4tjyO_q> > *”. An introduction to these texts was sent out for yesterday, under the > heading “*Vanguard<http://sadtu-pol-ed.blogspot.com/2010/02/vanguard.html> > *”. > > As well as a main text each week, there is usually one or more than one > supporting text, which may be regarded as supplementary, alternative, or > additional reading. This week the supporting text to this discussion of the > workers’ mass organisations and their necessary counterpart, the > revolutionary Party, is made up of extracts from Lenin’s “*What is to be > Done?<http://sadtu-media-releases.googlegroups.com/web/1106a%2C+What+is+to+be+Done%2C+Workers+%26+Revolutionaries%2C+Lenin.doc?gda=TfUe9HkAAADO5_tBHBXARP4AsX6lmYOousUXbRQGDsdiVmcGgkfFTWil66lirPyUX6aCxEZVGHxoKCpHpCsh1YQmlRJkf_Tnl1pFkUJUuBBgHLP2xB_1F_tNrPf8SjuO1Qk> > *” > > *Workerism* > > In this book Lenin was concerned to oppose what he called “economism”, > which is also called “syndicalism” and in South Africa in the past and still > up to now, “workerism”. > > Lenin was concerned to show (following the publication of Eduard > Bernstein’s gradualist “Evolutionary Socialism” and Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform > or Revolution?”) that a revolutionary transformation of society was not > possible without a revolutionary political party of the working class. Trade > union organisation of the working class was never going to be sufficient. > > In the process Lenin was moved to denounce demagogy in the severest terms > (see the quote above, which is taken from the text that we are using today. > One reason that Lenin denounced demagogues so emphatically is because they > misrepresent themselves as being “left” or revolutionary, when in fact they > are “right”, and in particular gradualist, reformist and > class-collaborationist. > > *Worker’s Control?* > > Sometimes syndicalism arrives at a point where it proposes, demagogically, > “worker’s control” under capitalism. Marx and Lenin both denounced such > tomfoolery – see, for example, Marx’s “*Critique of the Gotha > Programme<http://sadtu-media-releases.googlegroups.com/web/1201a%2C+Critique+of+the+Gotha+Programme%2C+Karl+Marx%2C+1875.doc?gda=0gLga3MAAADO5_tBHBXARP4AsX6lmYOoW59bOFerZaOL7ZNRfZ8Q5YS2YrZWNopsbYu5HMAfjZi5U-_90BdQdvVajV87UOW2ob_zCeDtLNFfR8R_863j6R3tlgPljXliQw8JwPblG> > *” > > Lenin showed that the worker’s political party, the communist party, > remains a “must-have”. To achieve its goals the working class must combine > in a "vast association of the whole nation" and so rise above the peasant > and petty-bourgeois condition of being a "sack of potatoes". > > Whereas the syndicalism of individual factories or isolated mines is > nothing more than a reversion to petty-bourgeois consciousness, in > conditions where such petty-bourgeois behaviour is hopelessly subordinated > to a bourgeois market that it cannot possibly control. > > How will they sell their products, unless on the terms of the Imperialists? > This is why we say that demagogy is nothing but the class enemy’s message, > dressed up and re-sold in fake-revolutionary clothes. Demagogues will even > be found denouncing the real revolutionaries as fakes. > > When in doubt about such things, it helps to study. Lenin is a good person > to study, because he was good at telling the difference between genuine > things, and fakes. Especially, Lenin opposed syndicalism, workerism, > gradualism reformism and economism, all of which still exist today. > > *Downloads**:* > > *1106a, What is to be Done, Workers & Revolutionaries, > Lenin*<http://communist-university.googlegroups.com/web/1106a%2C+What+is+to+be+Done%2C+Workers+%26+Revolutionaries%2C+Lenin.doc?gda=W4PcrX4AAABRWT0JvHr826K2AV2Sy7ruWF_cvIR4bQcjY2Qjv0TmrWil66lirPyUX6aCxEZVGHxoKCpHpCsh1YQmlRJkf_Tnl1pFkUJUuBBgHLP2xB_1F_tNrPf8SjuO1Qk> > > *Worker Solidarity and Unions, MIA, Meetings, > Hannington<http://communist-university.googlegroups.com/web/1106%2C+Worker+Solidarity+and+Unions%2C+MIA%3B+Meetings%2C+Hannington.doc?gda=jh_Z84AAAABRWT0JvHr826K2AV2Sy7ruWF_cvIR4bQcjY2Qjv0TmrWqIYeWP4QVHu5dm91rjuvG8tEC0BPEnFlA6fT3p9guJY4azGvB-4QtnhowQyXEt2ho1ks4tjyO_q> > * > > > > -- > Posted By DomzaNet to Communist > University<http://domza.blogspot.com/2010/02/lenin-against-syndicalism.html>on > 2/12/2010 02:07:00 PM > > -- > You are subscribed. 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