At 03:33 20/01/2006, Soula wrote:
Missing: The working class mythologizes the struggle into a
Manichean good and evil situation. Only a few will bother to look
into the books of corporations to see how things are working.
the vanguard therefore should have a leading space to create and
chart the course of the struggle, else it will be one working class
mistake after another and a confusion of strategy and tactic.
Soula, nothing I am saying challenges the concept of leadership, but
don't you think a redefinition of leadership is called for (one that
goes well beyond 'the correct decisions of an infallible central committee')?
Anti economism in Marxism dates far back and maybe Michael's is a
revulsion and revision of some Trotskyite positions that he has seen
along the way.
I would not limit this to Trotskyist positions. Yes,
anti-economism dates far back, but the question is whether its basis
is sufficiently rooted in the understanding of Marx's conception (as
opposed to political eclecticism).
in solidarity,
m
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
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