>>CB: Well, in history as actually lived a majority sector of the proletariat in the U.S. has been racist too. Does that mean you give into to that, because it we can't find an example in history where there was no racism or national prejudice in a sector of the working class ? No. Communists are the leading sector of the working class, but they don't go on and make the revolution alone, but rather always press to unite the entire class, the class as a whole.<<
WL: Do I give in to what you call racism? The only way I can answer this is that as a lived experience I was a founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. An Executive Board member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionist and founding member of the Metropolitan Detroit Coalition of Black Trade Unionist. I am a former Editor of the Southern Advocate. As teen I was Editor of the Black Student United Front newspaper and executive board member of the Black Student Voice. Do I give in to racism? Let me think about this for a moment because it is a simple minded question. Do communist make the revolution alone? Actually communist do not make revolution at all, but as communist carry out the insurrection as the height of their political activity. We are able to do this on the basis of our fight for victory of the workers in their immediate struggle. Do I give in to racism? Man . . . you are so removed from any reality I have experienced I do not know what to say. Allow me to describe what we have faced for the past fifty years and the current within the African American Peoples Movement since reconstruction. The reason for my approach is the mistaken idea that the industrial union movement was the working class movement and this is not true at all. Wait . . . a minute. You are so far removed from reality what you ask is absurd. Actually, we cannot unite the working class under capitalism. It is not possible. What I am saying is that it is impossible to unite the working class under capitalism. Nor does our numbers make it possible to entertain an idea of pushing - "press to unite the entire class, the class as a whole," which cannot be united even if there where 20 million organized communists. Stratification prevents this as well as the inherent competition of the workers as a class. Rather, we try to win the workers over to the cause of communism because we already know and understand why it is not possible to unite the working class or "press to unite the entire class, the class as a whole." What we fight for as a political logic is the unity of the vanguard of the proletariat. The vanguard of the proletariat is not the party or a political organization but the actual leaders of the working class. One section of the class - large numerically, always follows another section of the class in motion. The reason their is no precedence in history of the working class of any country being revolutionary as a whole is because such a configuration is impossible. The working class as a whole is always locked in the battle to reform the system because it is the damn system. This is not a bad thing but the environment of the class struggle. That is why for 30 years we communists - outside your body politic, spoke of the revolutionary struggle for reform. What happens is that society begins a qualitative leap to a new mode of production and with this the old classes begin decay and from them new classes arise corresponding to the emerging new state of development of production and it is here that the antagonism manifest itself as the historically inevitable revolutionary leap. The way Jim Crow was overthrown was not by winning the workers away from racism. Actually, much of the working class, the absolute majority stood apart from this struggle. Then again the absolute majority of the working class stood apart from the struggle for industrial unionism. Sorry Charlie . . . we come from radically different experiences and forms of Marxism, although I understand you are in possession of the genuine Marxism. All that crap about uniting workers of different races is just a bunch of petty bourgeois crap. Win the workers to the cause of communism. Waistline _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
