I guess that at every epoch there arises notorious revisionists who have surrendered to their disdain of that most complex and extraordinary class; a class either loathed or obsessed by society; independent of many influences; able to steer itself, much like their anti-thesis, the bourgeoisie, from harms way; disappointing to the romantic devotee; and feared by the moribund class; it is that enigmatic monolith of present day society who's future has yet to be won; a class who just barely tasted emancipation, aware of its power, and frustrated by its betrayers.
We couldn't care less of any fake sympathies displayed by the hypocrites about, a virtue we've copied from those very exploiters of our labor; and so our hearts have become colder than what their pitiless souls can imagine, our fervor hotter than the hell they fear. We return to our solemn self when we feel the affliction, since now it affects every one of us; and like all animals, we can learn from our existence; our knowledge becomes the opened door to our freedom, and our memory, our instincts. With these utensils we shall devour the bourgeoisie. There are those who haven't figured us out yet, and we shan't want to wait for them, for they retard our unity and our progress and we shall glance their way and scowl at their foolishness and condemn their treachery. We are the class which sells our ability to labor, a class with a definite point of view. We have, long ago, been persuaded about the virtues of revolution and civil war, and now this idea must burst free again among the many; and to the Society of the Keepers of the Flame is assigned the responsibility to disseminate revolutionary teachings, much like the Apostles did, and never tire of doing so, because it is not about the ripe time for revolution now, during the epoch of Imperialism, it is about a new ideology, a philosophy, a way of politics respondent to the catastrophic circumstances; that the working class may judge the communist as a messenger of that which is becoming, and let not any objector silence us, or brand us as rhetorical, or out of order, or out of place.... for we shall find our way about and deliver the word even if we need to whisper it. Everyone says that they claim their point of view. So be it! and watch as his point of view concurs with hers and theirs and seemingly all; and let hundreds of thousands show themselves; and let the workers demand their immediate needs. So what if the revisionists write their books. We shall build our Bolshevik Party! Now, that the conditions have been ripe for the longest. Let's not be liquidators like them. Why not consolidate the advanced workers, youths, and intellectual, and recruit them into the revolutionary party of labor. This should be our central task. And to all the other parties out there, we should wish them success in their endeavors toward revolution, for it is indeed what the world demands of us, and then soon we can all become one and our victory assured. Bolshevize! Bolshevize!! Bolshevize!!! And a qualitative leap would have turned within the communist motion, or let's say that the bourgeois State shall oblige us to the task; and that is good, for that is what has brought the proletariat victory, and so that is what communists do. f580 --- On Tue, 1/25/11, waistli...@aol.com <waistli...@aol.com> wrote: From: waistli...@aol.com <waistli...@aol.com> Subject: [MLL] Class and revolution: complexity of words and concepts To: marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 4:44 PM Class is a big word and not simply a power relation. In say 1951, the Soviet working class was an industrial working class but not an industrial proletariat. Sure, everyone referred to the Soviet working class as the "Soviet proletariat" because of its position as shock brigade, but there was no class of capitalist in the Soviet Union in 1951 to cast the workers as proletariat. There exists a class of industrial workers. This class of industrial workers is different from the class of manufacturing workers. The industrial working class is the product of the industrial revolution. The proletariat is the product of and expression of property relations: bourgeois private property rather than feudal property. The property signature of class OR the material form of class which encases the property relations casting the proletariat as "proletariat" is subjective or to be precise "subjective/objective." Private property flows from subjective human attributes. The property signature of class - proletariat, does not arise out of the electro-mechanical quality of productive forces defining the meaning of industrial. Revolution A REVOUTION is a complex contradictory process. It is composed of interconnected stages of development, each possessing its own objective or material and subjective or human/intellectual side. A brief outline of these stages is 1). Qualitative transformation in the means of production. The change in the means of production force, 2). A "revolution" in society or social revolution. The "revolution" is the actual process creating new classes in society corresponding to new means of production and its new social organization of labor. The social revolution is crowned by; 3) a "political revolution" or insurrection wherein representatives of one of the contending classes seize power and social reconstruction begins. What open a revolutionary period is qualitative changes in the means of production, which at a certain stage produces social consequences compelling society to leap forward to a new organization of labor or die. Non-revolutionary periods are all the quantitative boundaries a system goes through before qualitatively new means of production begin to disrupt the unity of the mode of production. Books can be written on each of the points above. 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