On 17 February 2014 02:53, Mike Ballard <mbbtraven5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> @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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