En relación a [L-I] I appreciate this list, el 27 Sep 01, a las 15:24, pms dijo:
> as a source of valuable info from people of good-will. I, for one, don't consider myself "people of good-will". I am as ill-willed as you can imagine against imperialists and capitalists. But I hope this does not exclude me from your warm words of appreciation... > But did you ever > wonder why even the worst imperialist fringe on the Right, like the one I > believe now has all of the world holding their breathes in fear, never call > themselves the Attila the Hun guys? Not only I have. I have also read many works by many interesting people out there on false consciousness, on alienation, on hegemony, and on exercise of power. Attila had the greatest opinion of himself, and it is not through his opinion that you should judge him. By the way, he was much more civilized than the Roman Empire he was bent to destroy and, alas, could not. Some decades had to elapse before this cranky machine of human destruction was elliminated from the surface of Europe. And it was the naughty Barbarians who did it, bringing in with them a wave of fresh air into a rotten and worm-ridden stinking corpse. > I think you could put across the best ideas > of Lenin, or Warren Beatty, or whatever, if we dropped these old buzz-words. If you mean that quotes don't make consciousness, I agree. But if you mean that we should hide from our public that we are against capitalism, I don't. What really matters in politics and history is not _what do people think today_ but what _could they get to think if they became aware of their objective situation_ (Zugerechtne Bewusstsein, computable consciousness, I think this is called in German; please some German cde. to the rescue!). And we are not neutrals in this respect, what we do has an incidence in what people come to believe. > [...] Abuse of power should be the enemy. Commonsense, compassion and > marketing, the goal. Tax-payer subsidies to big bidness should be a mantra. I > think I just saw the meager pension and health benifits I was hoping to get > slimly by on, in about 15 years, just paid for those nice outfits those > progressive-looking Pakistani woman are wearing in today's NYT's pms I am afraid you are just skimming on the surface. Of course all the propositions above are important. But what really matters is to have people to understand that there is nothing like a "charitable capitalism", that it is the wage system and the whole structure that must be replaced by something humane. This is nothing you can argue for without some theoretical rambling. And this is so simply because a "mode of production" is, in the first place, a "mode of production" of a particular kind of human beings by producing the relations which mould their mental structures. So, we have _two_ jobs, not one, ahead of us: breaking up those mental structures and tearing down, in so doing, the tissues of our society. The "bad guys" don't need to explain who they are, nor why they are who they are, because the whole social structure of human relations justifies them in the heads of the workers. Hope I gave an idea. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
