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S. Artesian wrote: > > > No, things have gotten worse for me as they have for almost everybody who > isn't a bourgeois. I'm just one of those people who doesn't think that > supporting the bourgeoisie, and their band aid legislation, makes it > better. > > Doesn't mean I support ending unemployment benefits... just means that > supporting bourgeois legislation regarding unemployment benefits, > healthcare, investment, is not a winning tactic, effective strategy, or > programmatic vehicle for actually eliminating poverty and immiseration. > > We are not, and should not, support bourgeois legislation. Marx wrote > that > the "first principle of our party" is "not a farthing" for this > government. > I think he meant what he said. Capitalist reforms are concealed measures of reaction, as KM correctly pointed out. Some reforms are, as in this case, I think, grudging concessions to the working class at times when the class struggle heats up. No single reform or set of reforms can ever topple capitalism or abolish any of it's industries in favor of the working class. That is, as long as they hold the principles of private property and profit inviolate and sacrosanct. That said, though, history has shown that ruling class reaction can spiral out of control precipitating exactly what it aimed to contain. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-Marxism--Another-view-of-the-health-care-legislation-tp28018367p28038224.html Sent from the Marxism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
