> Music to my ears, Miles. Music to my ears. Say it loudly! Workers will *never* hear this 'basic stuff' from mere liberals and leftists obsessed with moralising every political issue and boiling them down to a radical reform. Even McMurtry could make it here, if we changed social relations this radically. We can't do that without first knowing this 'basic stuff', 'stuff' which the left has either forgotten or never knew in the long sleep of reason.
I second these sentiments. I came across a really nice blog post today that speaks to this:
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The idea [of "communization"] is fairly simple, but simplicity is often one of the most difficult goals to achieve. It means that a revolution is only communist if it changes all social relationships into communist relationships, and this can only be done if the process starts in the very early days of the revolutionary upheaval. Money, wage-labour, the enterprise as a separate unit and a value-accumulating pole, work-time as cut off from the rest of our life, production for value, private property, State agencies as mediators of social life and conflicts, the separation between learning and doing, the quest for maximum and fastest circulation of everything, all of these have to be done away with, and not just be run by collectives or turned over to public ownership: they have to be replaced by communal, moneyless, profitless, Stateless, forms of life. The process will take time to be completed, but it will start at the beginning of the revolution, which will not create the *preconditions* of communism: it will create communism.
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The major difference between Marx and utopian socialists is to be found in Marx’s main concern: the labour-capital exploitation relation. Because the proletarian is the heart and body of capital, he or she carries communist potentials within himself or herself. When capital stops buying labour power, labour is nothing. So every deep social crisis opens the possibility for the proletarians to try and invent “something else”. Most of the time, nearly all the time in fact, their reaction is far from communism, but the possibility of a breakthrough does exist, as has been proved by a succession of endeavours throughout modern times, from the English Luddites in 1811 to the Greek insurgents in 2008.
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Full at: <http://www.khukuritheory.net/what-is-communization/#more-1437>