[lbo-talk] Revolutionary Leadership

[Bill Bartlett]

At 2:50 PM +1100 1/11/07, Mike Ballard wrote:

>If a proletarian democracy were found to be essential/necessary by the workers
>themselves,

That seems to be the current situation, right? There is democracy, 
and the proletariat is the overwhelming majority, so I guess we must 
have a proletarian democracy already.

>then other classes would still exist and so would the State i.e.
>the communist reconstruction of society would have to be delayed until other
>classes "withered away".

Other classes aren't ever going to wither away while the working 
class is prepared to stay slaves. But the very day the working class 
ceases to obey orders then the ruling class will instantly and 
completely cease to exist. There will be no chance for it to 
peacefully "wither away".

>I didn't intend to "blow" Angelus off with whatever slogan you think I was
>using.  But then, I suppose you think, you're just blowing me off as an empty
>sloganeer.

Even if you are something of a sloganeer Mike, who says that's a bad 
thing? Depends on the slogan and whether its empty depends on the 
content.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas