[lbo-talk] Sam Gindin, ON THE REVIVAL OF THE WORKING CLASS

[brad bauerly]

> This is also true of peasants in their societies.  The key isn't the
> existence of this "material reason"; it's the consistency of the conditions
> of individuals with those required for the development of the required
> degree of rational self-consciousness (something different from the usual
> idea of "consciousness").
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> Marx's account of what's required is mistaken.
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The difference between feudal societies and capitalism is that feudal
relationships were based on the explicit subordination and exploitation of
the peasants, while under capitalism this relationship is obfuscated and
people are seemingly equal.  This is why all marxism or revolutionary
leftistm should seek to expose this hidden exploitation and require that
society live up to its stated equality for all.  In the former there is
no revolutionary potential of the peasants apart from an inversion of the
relationship and the social roles, in capitalist social relations there is
the possibility of transcendence by removing the exploitative nature through
the material position of the working class *and* the subjective development
of a society that at least believes in such a non-exploitative equal
society.  By uniting the ideology and subjective development of society
produced through capitalist objectification of labour, the capacity (not I
wrote capacity not necessity) to transend exploitation and unequal relations
is produced.   or sum such thingy...

Brad