On 2002.04.24 09:25 PM, "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Schofield: in the revolutionary left. When the revolutionary left refused > to be reined in, they shot its leaders like Andres Nin. People in Spain > were willing to risk their lives for economic as well as political > democracy. When they figured out that the People's Front was not willing to > smash the old agrarian despotic class relations, they lost their fighting > will. In a struggle against fascism, you have to have clearly defined class > politics. Watering down social and economic demands leads to the triumph of > fascism. > > > > > Louis Proyect > Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org > Comrade Louis Proyect In 1920s, in Europe, There were large and strong social democrat party in Germany and France. They depended upon strong trade union. But as Marx said, Trade union is essential conservative. So Lenin again and again struggle against trade unionism(What to be done) But Luxemburg etc considered that revolutionary movement must happened bottom-up, and neglect struggle against trade unionism. They considered by Massen Strik and associated armed struggle workers can take over political power. When revolutionary period happened, they tried to organize workers without struggle against trade unionism. As a result, although workers struggle Massen Strik and armed struggle, they were unprepared to take over political power and to handle the power and defeated. In the contrary, national social democrat(NAZI) had clear political aim such as nationalism, racism, anti-communism and critique of money. They organized top down right-wing workers and more important national financial capitalists which led national capitals. IN that time as Hilferding described, Financial capital organized within nation-state. As a result political form of financial capital i.e. Imperialism competed with each other and led to war. So fascism was not simply petite bourgeois rebel respond to worker's struggle rather party movement of organized financial capitals and right-wing workers aimed at destroying communism. And they won. But in current international credit capitalism, mode of capital accumulation changes. First, financial capital freely transfer among nation-state. Second, simple commodity becomes credited commodity and they are used to exploit South. And international financial capitals organized its political form such as World Bank IMF, OECD etc, which control international capital flow. So financial capital based upon nation-state which compete with each other vanished and as a result globalization of capitals happened and North-South divide occurs. According to changing mode of capital accumulation, mass consciousness also changed. People feel themselves to belong to nation -state rather to belong to direct capital's power. As a result, even very young child can become to understand crisis of capital's culture such as ecological threat, global starvation, urban unrest, civil war, etc. And various social movements challenges globalization of capital such as from social ecology, worker's cooperative, consumers' cooperative, local community revival using LET, urban rebuilding, peaceful anti-war demonstration to armed struggle in third world sometimes took religious form such as Jihad. Their movements can and should abolish money as a fundamental element of capitalism which past revolution cannot achieve and experience. If we make clear to aim at abolishing money as a target of revolutionary movement , we already have world-wide social movements. Current leadership must recognize this crisis and constructive power and must and can organize people directly to abolish money as aim of social revolution. MIYACHI TATSUO Psychiatric Department Komaki municipal hosipital 1-20.JOHBUHSHI KOMAKI CITY AICHI PREF. 486-0044 TEL:0568-76-4131 FAX 0568-76-4145 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
