Kautsky parle

[Charles Brown]

Some of the Left knows it's FOR socialism:
abolition of private property, i.e.
public ownership of the basic means of production;
the establishment of the working class as the
ruling class replacing the dictatorship of the
bourgeoisie;
a right to a decent job, housing, health care and
other fundamentals of living, and equality as part of the
fundamental law; aboliton of war or FOR peace.
In sum, FOR peace, jobs and equality.

 These goals
are pursued with minimum and maximum
programs or with reform and revolutionary
struggles. 

The idea that
the Left does not have an affirmative program
as well as a negative critique of what is now is slander.
The "elusiveness" of the concept of the 
Left is the result of the influence of bourgeois
disinformation on some people, bourgeois
anti-democratic/anti-civil libertarian

 conduct to disorient and destroy the Left
such as McCarthyism and Reaganism, etc.

The idea that such classic fundamentals as
the abolition of private property are no longer
feasible is a gross error in historical perspective.
The fact that the abolition of private property
takes multiple generations and goes through
ebb and flow , and now the process is in
an ebb is typical of historic processes. Capitalism
took longer to replace feudalism than the
Marxist Left , multi-generation process is taking.

Charles Brown

  Detroit

Workers of the West, it's our turn


>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 09/06 12:00 PM >>>
>Christopher Niles wrote:
>>
>> One major problem with the left is that it is a rather elusive concept:
>
>Says who?  The Left is anti-capitalist, opposed to mere reformism (but
>not necessarily reforms), against racism/sexism/homophobia, committed to
>activism...

It sounds like your left is against a lot of things, but is not for much.
As long as the left knows what it is against but not what it is for, it
will remain an elusive concept...

Brad DeLong