The CPUSA leaps from one misconception to another. They distort Marx and Engels' observation that "all history is the history of class struggles." They see just the form of the class struggle, and not the content of it. **That is, they do not recognize that classes arise on the foundation of productive forces, in relation to the forms of ownership, the property relations that each distinct stage of history demands.** They do not see that "class struggle" itself has developed, gone through [stages], as new classes have emerged and contested for political power. The foundation of CPUSA politics is the idealistic distortion of "history as the history of class struggles" -- because they don't include/comprehend the changes in productive forces. >From these fundamental flaws, great political flaws grow. For the CPUSA, the "technological crisis" exists "alongside" economic crisis, rather than being the foundation of it. In this mishmash, globalization is just as expression of imperialism rather than a new stage of capitalism, superceding imperialism. Since the importance of the revolution in the productive forces is ignored, the implications of the technological revolution currently underway is missed, and they can only see the same political forces that they have seen for the past 70 years. And so for the CPUSA, the political tactic follows of the "need for greater internationalization of working class solidarity, ... internationalization of trade unions" and "the struggle over the value that the working class produces." It vulgarizes working class politics, reducing it to trade union politics. It equates trade union struggles with class struggle. Trade union struggles are economic struggles. Class struggle is the political struggle, the struggle for class power, which is why inevitably the class needs a political party. New class forces are stepping on to the world stage, born of the revolution in the forces of production, and the inevitable displacement wrought in society as it embraces the new technologies. A new class struggle is emerging. _http://www.scienceofsociety.org/discuss/wc1.html_ (http://www.scienceofsociety.org/discuss/wc1.html)
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