From owner-marxism-international  Tue Apr 15 20:35:15 1997
Subject: Re: M-I: Goodbye
Message-ID: <19970415.203343.12486.0.JSchulman@juno.com>
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From: jschulman@juno.com (Jason A Schulman)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:34:09 EDT


On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Amrohini J. Sahay wrote:

> "working class" (because that is all it is for them), to marginalize 
>a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary move, has appealed to a most backward 
>form of trade-unionism.  It is in such a context that one should take 
>Jonathan Flanders's response to Christi-Ann: He asks her to tell us more

>about her EXPERIENCE!  Instead of critiquing her for her economism --
she 
>simply wants a "better" life under capitalism and has no interest in
> revolutionary work. 

Christi said "we" -- meaning the working class you ostensibly wish to see
overthrow capitalism -- wants such a life.  Which they do.

> She is the exemplary instance of what Lenin 
>called a practitioner of "economism".  If Christi-Ann ..., indeed wants 
>different working conditions, then she should aim not at simply shorter
hours, 
>etc., for herself and others but participate in overthrowing the regime
of
> wage-labor. 

Christi is quite aware of the need to end captialism.
 
> Jonathan Flanders by his "tell us about your 
>EXPERIENCE" shows that he has no coherent understanding of labor (the
fact that 
>he himself HAS EXPERIENCE does not mean that he KNOWS the meaning of 
>that EXPERIENCE.  

I see the actual lives of working class people are of no interest to you,
oh self-appointed guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy.

-- Jason
______
"Radicalism in the United States has no great triumphs to record; but the
sooner we begin to understand why this is, the sooner we will be able to
change it."  Christopher Lasch (1932-95), *The Agony of the American
Left* (1969).





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