Bourgeois proletarians

[Charles Brown]

Louis Pro posts an important discussion
below. In some ways, the whole
world socialist revolution waits
the reversal of opportunism in
key sectors of the working classes
of Western Europe and the U.S.,
the socalled advanced capitalist
countries.
Every other major region of the
world has had some type of
revolutionary advance whether
proletarian or national liberation
since 1917, except this region.
One can't help but think that
the process of bourgeoisification
of some sectors which
Marx and Engels noted concerning
England first, has grown into
a major element of this blockage.
The other workers and peasants
of the world have not been
able to swing the tide of 
history to socialism with the
abstention and even opposition
of the advanced working classes
to revolutionary change.

Charles Brown

Workers of the West , it's our turn.


>>> Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> 12/14 4:38 PM >>>
>From IMPERIALISM AND THE SPLIT IN SOCIALISM

by V.I. Lenin

Written: October 1916

Published: December 1916 in Sbornik and Sotsial-Demokrata No.2 and the
Collected Works, Vol. 23.

Neither Marx nor Engels lived to see the imperialist epoch of world
capitalism, which began not earlier than 1898-1900. But it has been a
peculiar feature of England that even in the middle of the nineteenth
century she already revealed at least two major distinguishing features of
imperialism: (1) vast colonies, and (2) monopoly profit (due to her
monopoly position in the world market). In both respects England at that
time was an exception among capitalist countries, and Engels and Marx,
analysing this exception, quite clearly and definitely indicated its
connection with the (temporary) victory of opportunism in the English
labour movement. 
erefore cowardly, remain lone on the field...." September 14, 1