The workers of the world will never become conscious of their class interests without communication about how the class struggle actually manifests itself. IMHO, they should speak and write about it amongst themselves as political equals, not as leader and led reproductions of the dominance and submission rituals of class society's politics. For too long, the most class aware amongst the workers (and I include intellectuals who work for the employing class in this category) have attempted to lead by using nationalist and religious ideologies, thinking, "the workers are not ready to hear about their class interests. They are immature." With some notable exceptions e.g. Luxemburg, founding members of the I.W.W. and so on, this nicey-nice, parental kind of approach came out of the mostly social democratic rooted leaderships of Mensheviks and Bolsheviks and continued through the 20th Century to dominate the ideological gas of the world. If Marx or even Bakunin had taken on this kind of Machiavellian tactical approach to political enlightenment, the workers of the 19th Century would have been hearing mostly about how they should be listening to the "progressive" heads of State of their time as opposed to adopting the stance which can be summed up in the principle of the First International that the emancipation of the workers can only be the result of their own class conscious act. In other words, works like "The Communist Manifesto", the "German Ideology", "Value, Price and Profit" and even "God and the State" would never have been penned or spoken for fear of disrupting "progressive unity". That approach to class conscious agitation was a profoundly different orientation from the core stance adopted by Bernstein's evolutionary approach to socialism or even Lenin's in his in 1902 position (later turned to dogma by his followers) that the workers by themselves could only achieve trade union consciousness.
I guess that kind of assessment is one major way in which I differ from many, if not most people on the left, Yoshie.
Mike B)
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
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