CB: In the long run, the running away of manufacturing shops in the last 40 years may become a stuning an blunting with respect to the benefit of U.S. workers such that they do something working class conscious. In that respect, we might see fulfillment of the unchaining of the productive forces metaphor come to pass.
However, that would be relying on the negative conduct of the bourgeoisie to beget the revolution. We do expect the bourgeoisie to create objective conditions that will spur the working class to overthrow bourgeois private property. But the activity of Communists is not with respect to development of the productive forces, but to prepare the working class with working class and socialist consciousness so that the tens of millions of people can interpret things like transnational imperialism of today as requiring revolutionary overthrow. ************************ WL: Pandering to national chauvinism and national chauvinistic sentiment of a segment of American society is a dangerous game and an ever present feature of American communism and American Marxism. To characterize the imperial curve of history and the logic of bourgeois imperialism and American Yankee imperialism in particular as "the running away of manufacturing shops in the last 40 years" is a blunder that can be corrected. Factories in America do not "run away" from the American workers, with its nasty and "racist" implications that if these factories did not run away things would somehow be fineor better for the American working class. Our capitalists drive for profits at the direct expense of the working women and men everywhere on earth and this is a fact everyone in our country already understands. Our capitalists drive for profits to the destruction of the earth itself and the exclusion - "locking out," of hundreds of millions of men and women - nay, billions, from productive laboring and/or the means to secure socially necessary living requirement, is the evil born of bourgeois rule and its lusting for profit at the expense of the individual. Before the last 40 years in our country life was no bowel of cherries. Forty years ago or 1965, witnessed the Watts rebellion. Owning to bourgeois rule and bourgeois profits, America has always had a class of the most destitute and poverty stricken, going all the way back to the disgraceful period of slavery in our history. Today, things are actually becoming worse than slavery for millions. During slavery master was compelled to care for and ensure the existence and upkeep of his slaves. Our modern bourgeois order - undergoing an incredible revolution in technology - the productive forces, threatens to drive the value of labor power even lower (wages) and simply discards human beings that cannot be profitably employed in our free market system of private profit. It matters little where a particular factory or group of factories or entire industries our located. People must be feed, clothed and housed and have fresh drinking water or socially necessary living requirement even if no profit can be realized or made. Our current state of development of the productive forces makes it possible to provide everyone on earth their minimum socially necessary requirements without depriving any one of anything except the capitalists so-called "right" to profit from human need. The King once had rights and "his people" and "His Kingdom" and then society entered a period of revolution and did away with the King in favor of a more humane and advanced form of economic and social intercourse. The capitalist class is not God ordained and neither was the King. The need to imbue the emerging leaders and militants with a communists co nsciousness and introduce them to the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin - amongst others, is an ever present task and responsibility of the world communist movement and all its various detachments. I strongly suggest reading "THE POLITICAL STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS" Synopsis of a Pamphlet July, 1921" by J.V. Stalin http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/STRC21.html and "CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS" Pravda, No. 56, March 14, 1923 for the general communist-marxists approach to organized communist activity amongst the masses. http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/STRC23.html Waistline _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
