[lbo-talk] Why aren't the poor storming the barricades?

[Mike Ballard]

@Mike Ballard: "I think the critique of the wage system which Marx began
and which was largely abandoned by the left in the 20th century is the key
to getting people to see that 'storming the barricades' is an option."  In
principle I agree with this statement (see  Kliman's *Reclaiming Marx's
"Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency* (2006) for a capable
and persuasive analysis of the abortion that is 20th century Marxist
Economics). However, enlightenment is not enough to get people to see that
'storming the barricades' is an option.  A great deal of difficult and
dangerous organizational work is necessary to transform inchoate anger into
an effective political force  http://www.labourstart.org/2013/,
http://www.ituc-csi.org/, etc, etc. etc.....
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Cheers Victor.  I've added

Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital': A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
(The Raya Dunayevskaya Series in Marxism and Humanism)

by Andrew Kliman (Paperback)

to my Amazon wish list.

As for your labourstart link, I find more of the same i.e. 'fair day's
wage for a fair day's work' unions not addressing the issue of wage
labour as being a system workers can replace with social ownership and
democratic control of the product of their labour.  And that's the
problem which the left, boring from within those unions as they have
since the Bolshevik Revolution, needs to address if it is ever to
become something more than a bunch of micro-sects engaged in
ideological faction fights over who would have been more capable as
Soviet leader after the death of Lenin.

Mike B)

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