Louis Proyect wrote:
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>
> You are the one with the theoretical problem. Modern South Africa was
> created through unfree labor. The miners, with their pass laws and their
> indenturehood, were a proletariat. No amount of quote-mongering from Marx
> will change that.
>
This is what I mean by replacing marxist historical understanding with
the moral rage of the petty bourgeoisie. Lenin noted that the petty
bourgeois youth driven to a frenzy by the horrors of imperialism was a
commonplace occurrence. I experienced just that in my battles with the
Weathermen in the '60s. I did not know that in 2001 I would confront
juvenile weatherman ideology in mature marxists.
Carrol
