In a message dated 12/31/2010 5:55:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, _intangib...@aphenomenal.com_ (mailto:intangib...@aphenomenal.com) writes: The point WL misses is that there have indeed been, are and will be "communists" who split the class under the guise of claiming to unite it against the main/common enemy. U.S. labour history is particularly rife with examples --- if only because the bourgeois-individualist entrepreneurial spirit runs rampant in U.S. society and someone is always ready to launch yet another left-wing "enterprise" within the workers' movement. ("Can you say: 'Lyn-don-La-rouche'?") ……. So meanwhile the question is: has globalisation and advanced robotics enabled the capitaslists and their monopolies and cartels to overcome the operation of the Law of Value? On the evidence of what has happened in the global economy for the last two years, evidently not at all. Comment You are correct. I missed the point, thinking the response to the article “ Know Thy Self” had something to do with the article itself. In fact I had no idea what was being referred to was the old National Caucus of Labor Committee, who we had one – and only one, run in with. Nor, did it occur to me what was being referenced was the history of the American communist movement; the evolution of the labor aristocracy and/or labor lieutenants of the capitalist class and then the role of men such as Foster and Browder. It never occurred to me the author I responded actually meant the history of the CPUSA. Thanks for the "heads up." Ours is NOT the era of Lenin. The era of Lenin contains a feudal political backdrop and a completely different form of imperialism based on the closed colonial system or imperial blocks. Then the October Revolution ushered in what was called the general crisis of capital. If you feel that LRNA or I have written that cartels can overcome the law of value please present the statement so at least I can correct myself. The law of value means the exchange of commodities equivalents based on the socially necessary amount of labor in them. The revolution in the means of production is advanced enough as to render debate concerning the existence of “this revolution” pedestrian. The accelerating destruction of value or the value relations does not mean no value production is taking place on earth. At this stage of the social process the new era we are in is being characterized as the “jobless recovery.” WL.
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