Bill Ayers can't do math

September 25 2008

The "unrepentant terrorist" mentioned in the media coverage of the McCain versus Obama campaign, Bill Ayers was an important piece of the 1960s. More U.$. intellectual firepower than ever before engaged Marxism in the 1960s, just when memories of industrial-related class struggle were dissipating, not to mention influence from agricultural class struggles.

Although he sometimes appears to defend MIM, Bill Ayers can't do math. International readers should not conclude he is from an impoverished background with improper education.

Bill Ayers is a smart guy. Perhaps he saw Kasama double web traffic after MIM reviewed Kasama and started discussion followed by search engines' picking it up. So Ayers figured he'd piss MIM off and get some attention. If so, we regret that we did not review Ayers before.

Another possibility is that this is an example that the defenders of the white working class know darn well there is no factual way to defend their position against MIM, so they make it up. Ideologically supporting that position are those with a Kantian imperative to pretend the workers are about to rise up any minute, regardless of the situation.

If there is no exploited proletariat in class struggle, there isn't. Followers of Wang Ming who only know how to copy the Revolution of 1917 don't know what to do when the Russian Revolution does not apply. In contrast, we at MIM take up the imperative to divide enemies. We start from the concrete situation. We do not accept that there is an imperative to tell lies about a whole class. That's not tactics. That's strategy stemming from a massive delusion in which racism and national chauvinism hide.

If the white worker oriented line comes to power, it will be social-imperialism. When it comes time for reparations to the truly exploited, the leaders will pull a fast one with the arithmetic.

Bill Ayers vacillated on the white worker question in his career. He engaged the question, but where we are today in the united $tates has to do with how there is not a critical mass of intellectuals able to lead proletarian struggle.