Grant Lee wrote:
>
> Yoshie said:
>
> As a historical
> materialist, however, my belief is that issues regarding wage labour itself
> remain the key issues in regard to the class consciousness of wages earners
> _as_a_whole_, GLBT or straight. Therefore, the political left will be
> non-revolutionary in direct proportion to the time it spends on issues which
> are a material concern for only a small section of that class, such as GLBT
> workers, rather than the class as a whole.
>
No. No. No. The issues of struggle are always given to us by contingent developments. Our _perspective_ on those issues, whatever they may be, is that of educating the workers to fight _all_ injustices, even injustices to minor Czarist officials or students from the bourgeosie. Workers will not be fit to rule, nor will they be able to struggle decently around even major class issues, unless they learn to recognize that an injury to one (even a petty producer) is an injury to all. Workers who won't struggle for gay rights won't struggle for socialism either.
Carrol
> regards,
>
> Grant.
>
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