Now he tells us!!
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > There is one common feature in the development, or more correctly > the degeneration, of modern trade union organizations in the > entire world: it is their drawing closely to and growing together > with the state power. This process is equally characteristic of > the neutral, the Social-Democratic, the Communist and “anarchist” > trade unions. This fact alone shows that the tendency towards > “growing together” is intrinsic not in this or that doctrine as > such but derives from social conditions common for all unions. > > Monopoly capitalism does not rest on competition and free private > initiative but on centralized command. The capitalist cliques at > the head of mighty trusts, syndicates, banking consortiums, > etcetera, view economic life from the very same heights as does > state power; and they require at every step the collaboration of > the latter. In their turn the trade unions in the most important > branches of industry find themselves deprived of the possibility > of profiting by the competition between the different enterprises. > They have to confront a centralized capitalist adversary, > intimately bound up with state power. Hence flows the need of the > trade unions – insofar as they remain on reformist positions, ie., > on positions of adapting themselves to private property – to adapt > themselves to the capitalist state and to contend for its > cooperation. In the eyes of the bureaucracy of the trade union > movement the chief task lies in “freeing” the state from the > embrace of capitalism, in weakening its dependence on trusts, in > pulling it over to their side. This position is in complete > harmony with the social position of the labor aristocracy and the > labor bureaucracy, who fight for a crumb in the share of > superprofits of imperialist capitalism. The labor bureaucrats do > their level best in words and deeds to demonstrate to the > “democratic” state how reliable and indispensable they are in > peace-time and especially in time of war. By transforming the > trade unions into organs of the state, fascism invents nothing > new; it merely draws to their ultimate conclusion the tendencies > inherent in imperialism. > > Full: http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/xx/tu.htm > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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