At 11:58 15/07/00 -0400, you wrote:
>It is impossible to give a detailed picture of some future society. But every
>organizing effort has to have some goal. Every political party has a
>programme.
>One cannot simply put forward mantras and faith as the road to socialism.
>
>Rod
All these problems will be solved only through practice. Everyone's
practice, and consciousness, is partial and limited, but the sum total
forms a picture. The outlines of this are possible to discern at a very
high level of abstraction.
This should not be an invitation to lecture people but to go back to the
practical struggles and see how they are converging. The abstract exists
only in the particular.
That abstract is that as global finance capital becomes more and more
concentrated, more centralised, and more detached from actual human
productive activity, it is becoming the global target for a humanity
urgently needing to reassert social control over social production.
In the course of this, different struggles will take on different aspects
of the fight, but while uniting the most conscious people, it is also
possible to split the enemy up politically between finance capital, landed
capital, and industrial capital, and win strategic high ground.
Then we will be closer to the goal of social production controlled by
social foresight.
Chris Burford
London
