>And? We do not oppose reforms either. What we say is that it is not the
>business of a revolutionary party, any more than it is our business to help
>little old ladies across roads. Unions are the vehicles for struggle within
>capitalism; when they die, don't blame revolutionaries. The real reason
>that bolshevik-type revolutionaries need reformists slates is because,
>since their analysis is of a vanguard leading a dumb herd of trade union
>consciousness shmucks, these shmucks need to be led by the nose via
>promises of wage rises etc, into doing something which wasn't on their
>agenda at all. We argue for conscious revolution by a mass organisation of
>conscious socialists. At the end of the day, as Eugene Debs said, "if I can
>lead you into socialism, someone else can lead you out again" (or words to
>that effect). The revolutionary working class is the solution to the
>world's problems, and knows itself to be the solution.
So lemme see if I have this straight: the world will be won to socialism when the masses are convinced and vote for it, but in the meanwhile socialists shouldn't get involved in "activist" politics. What's your revolutionary praxis then? Exhortation?
Doug